MAURICE BLACKBURN

Financial planning

AMP has reached an agreement to settle the shareholder class action brought by Komlotex in June 2018 following the Hayne royal commission for $110 million....

Features

The Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into the simplification of financial services legislation is expansive, multi-phased and worthy of unpacking, Liam Cormican...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has been accused of extraordinary and undemocratic legislative over-reach by trying to gain control of how superannuation funds invest on behalf of...

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Financial planning

Caving to the demands of the US Chamber of Commerce to restrict Australian class action funding may deprive regular Australians of access to justice, according to Class A...

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Life/Risk

The Financial Planning Association says the advocacy efforts of financial advisers on behalf of clients can often impact the dispute data collected by the Australian Prud...

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Financial planning

Risk specialists, Australian Financial Risk Management have hit back at plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn suggesting it has criticised risks advisers on the basis of s...

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Financial planning

Risk advisers need to explain why consumers can be worse off taking advised insurance when compared to those taking group insurance within superannuation, according to pl...

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Life/Risk

Plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn says the major life insurers have been shown to have been persistently ignoring their own code of conduct by a report from the Life C...

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Life/Risk

Those who seek their own coverage cannot assume they will end up with a product in their best interests, according to a law firm....

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Superannuation

A leading plaintiff law firm has called for employers to be placed under a legal obligation to select the right default superannuation fund for their employees at the sam...

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Superannuation

Former Colonial First State executive director, Linda Elkins may have left the company and become a partner at KPMG but she has been named in a class action filing....

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Policy & Regulation

Consumers can expect improved justice and recourse should they be victims of wrongdoing by the financial services industry as the result of a Senate Committee report hand...

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Life/Risk

A plaintiff law firm has claimed the Financial Services Council and the insurance sector has been dragged ‘kicking and screaming’ towards enforceable codes of conduct....

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Life/Risk

Plaintiff law firm, Maurice Blackburn has labelled the Financial Services Council’s failed bid to have life/risk insurers allowed involvement in worker rehabilitation as ...

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Life/Risk

The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has rebuffed an FSC proposal to allow life/risk insurers to participate in getting injured worker...

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