ALA

Financial planning

Lawyers lash bad advice and urge urgency on compensation scheme

A lawyers group is urging the Federal Government to speed up the implementation of a Compensation Scheme of Last Resort arguing that past bad advice is only now coming ho...

Life/Risk

FSC code doesn’t address ‘junk’ insurance

The Australian Lawyers Alliance has taken issue with the Financial Services Council’s new life insurance code of conduct arguing that is neither fully enforceable nor tak...

Policy & Regulation

ALA calls for reform against insurers unfairly denying claims

Urgent reform is needed to prevent insurers unfairly denying claims, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance. ...

Life/Risk

Lawyers urge RC to inject more transparency into insurance

The Australian Lawyers Alliance wants the Royal Commission to inject more transparency into insurance within superannuation to create awareness of sub-standard policy ter...

Superannuation

Lawyers call for super insurance safeguards

Superannuation fund records are not always accurate enough to determine when a member is really inactive, meaning some people could be significantly disadvantaged by move...