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Life/Risk
The conditions attaching to some total and permanent disability insurance products sold inside superannuation made them tantamount to junk, according to consumer group, C...
Life/Risk
Breast cancer was the most common life insurance cancer claim, double the rate of prostate cancer which was the second most common, according to data....
Life/Risk
Insurer Clearview has confirmed it will cease the sale of agreed value income protection policies from 31 March....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council will treat bushfire victims making claims as vulnerable customers requiring addition support under the FSC Life Insurance Code of Practice....
Financial planning
Australians who have lost their life insurance policy details in the bushfires can contact the Financial Services Council for help....
Life/Risk
Legislation surrounding the regulation of claims handling may have insurers and related parties look to fall under a single Australian Financial Services License to ease ...
Life/Risk
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Federal Court case against major insurer, TAL, will test the circumstances and extent to which life insurers can ga...
Life/Risk
Major life insurer TAL has been taken to court by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on charges relating to issues raised during the Royal Commission in...
Superannuation
The superannuation industry has been urged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to focus more on improving life insurance outcomes for its members....
Life/Risk
Lowers sales through advice channels have helped contribute to life/risk new sales reaching a five year low, according to new data released by Dexx&r....
Policy & Regulation
Unsolicited cold call sales of direct life insurance and consumer credit insurance are to be banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....
Life/Risk
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has intervened in the disability income insurance market imposing capital requirements on insurers....
Life/Risk
Life insurers are struggling to sustain profitability in the face of challenging markets and tighter regulation with the Life Insurance Framework also playing a part....
Life/Risk
Over half of financial advisers say additional caps or the end of life insurance commissions are their greatest concerns, according to a report....
Life/Risk
Fewer financial planners consider client-related challenges to be significant when it comes to growing insurance advice, according to a report....
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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....