The Australian Council of Trade Unions has criticised calls for private life insurers to be allowed a greater role in worker rehabilitation claiming it is part of a Finan...
The Association of Financial Advisers has claimed that many advisers are still wondering why they have been entangled in the Tax Agent Service Act regime....
Col Fullagar reviews ASIC’s life insurance industry report and finds there are some serious issues in the claims management protocols of potentially all insurers....
ASIC has examined 60,000 documents as part of its CommInsure investigation and will deliver its findings by the end of the month....
Life insurers who decline up to 37 per cent of TPD claims should have been named by ASIC, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers....
Alena Miles looks at the importance of key person insurance in a business and how it protects the business if there is a key person death, disability, or a serious illnes...
The latest Four Corners report detailing problematic TPD claims-handling have served to reinforce the value of good life/risk advisers....
Holding personal insurance through super may be worth considering for the right client, and advisers need to be aware of not only the benefits but also the tax consequenc...
TAL launches initiative for cover to be increased online, without underwriting or paperwork....
Insurers need to help claimants in retraining to get back to work and off claim, Sunsuper believes....
SMSF trustees and advisers must review requirements of the treatment of insurance within their funds annually, taking into account changes around the SIS Act 1993, Janine...
AIA announces changes and discounts relating to its Priority Protection product set as well as a range of discounts associated with the product....
MLC’s Insurance Life Cover and TPD product has struck gold in the Term and TPD Product award at the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Risk Choice Awards. ...
Offering high levels of total and permanent disability and death cover, as well as competitive insurance premium rates for members has seen Kinetic Super get the gong....
To help see an industry response to LIF that goes beyond adviser remuneration, Zurich has reduced its term and TPD rates in the lead up to the new regime....
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...