TPD

Life/Risk

MLC has cut its TPD and life insurance premiums by up to 15 per cent to help address the under insurance issue in Australia....

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Tools & guides

Krishna Skandakumar, Heather Gray and Andrew O’Bryan look at the various changes that have occurred in insurance within superannuation and self-managed superannuation fun...

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Life/Risk

The Queensland Local Government Superannuation Board has been ordered to disclose advice it received in relation to a TPD claim by a former Gold Coast City Council employ...

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Life/Risk

Predatory legal claims around TPD insurance should be rejected, with many jumping the gun and easily able to be defeated, according to a lawyer working in the insurance a...

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Life/Risk

The structure and payment arrangements of TPD is dragging on its sustainability and needs to be changed, according to the former chair of the SCT....

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Life/Risk

The hard-line claims handling practices of insurers are doing more damage to the viability of group insurance than the involvement of lawyers, according to a leading plai...

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has confirmed moves in pursuit of a code of conduct for all parties, including lawyers, on the handling of insurance ...

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Life/Risk

Financial advisers have been blamed alongside lawyers for pushing the multitude of claims which placed pressure on TPD products within superannuation funds....

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Life/Risk

The FSC warns that the States are milking the insurance sector for revenue with impacts for under-insurance and that a renegotiation of the GST agreement represents a par...

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