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Freedom Insurance Group has announced a belated $33.4 million loss to the Australian Securities Exchange while confirming the exit of its chief executive and the involvem...

Life/Risk

Freedom Insurance Group has entered a voluntary suspension on the Australian Securities Exchange, acknowledging it is not positioned to detail its financial position....

Life/Risk

Freedom Insurance Group has declared it will not be recommencing sales of life products as it deals with commissions-related liquidity issues and the reality of a client ...

Life/Risk

TAL will today join ClearView and Freedom in being scrutinised by the Royal Commission on the failings of direct life/risk sales business....

Life/Risk

Freedom’s retention practices make it “unnecessarily difficult to cancel [insurance] policies” with just 28.5 per cent of customers trying to cancel funeral insurance cov...

Life/Risk

Freedom received 72 cancellation calls a day from customers for its funeral insurance policy over a 13-month period, with 13 per cent of those calls coming during the fir...

Life/Risk

Freedom ended dubious sales practices for four insurance products just days before appearing before the Royal Commission, then failed to disclose this information to the ...

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