At least four of AMP’s corporate superannuation clients are in the process of reviewing their arrangements in the wake of successive rounds of hearings before the Royal C...

Life/risk insurers have been placed on notice that the Royal Commission may recommend measures to hold them responsible for psychiatric injury inflicted on clients by cla...

Individuals spent an astonishing $29.5 billion on health-related expenses in 2015-16, according to Zurich, and helping clients better understand the risk of illness could...

New data points to life insurers becoming increasingly reliant on advisers as the major banks exit life insurance products....

New research has found that government-mandated insurance disclosure doesn’t help people make better purchasing decisions when it comes to insurance....

The Royal Commission has heard that TAL’s treatment of an insured not only denied the mentally ill customer assistance at various points of her claim, but also actively c...

TAL has today faced rigorous questioning by the Royal Commission as to whether case managers and senior staff were incentivised to deny claims as quickly as possible....

The Royal Commission has heard of TAL’s invasive investigation methods for the purpose of avoiding the approval of income protection policies on the basis of non-disclosu...

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

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 ...

With insurance sales practices proving a focus of the Royal Commission’s current hearings, the Commission has heard of how Freedom sold a disabled man funeral insurance a...

The Royal Commission has pointed to flaws and inconsistencies in the regulatory environment around life insurance, including that there is no penalty capable of being imp...

In a hearing littered by admissions of wrongdoing by Clearview, the Royal Commission has heard the insurer’s chief risk officer, Gregory Martin, detail how the firm breac...

The Financial Services Council has welcomed a regulator’s positive review on the role of the FSC Life Insurance Code of Practice in the sale of direct life insurance, whi...