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AMP claims director exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... compensation. Mitchell left IAG in April 2016 to pursue other opportunities at AMP. Wilson is currently the director of underwriting, services and operations, and leads a team of more than 150 people nationally. She joined AMP in February 2015 as head ...

TAL expands Risk Academy offering

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... understanding the prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes as well as the medical terminology relevant to both underwriting and when assessing product definition requirements at claims time. TAL general manager for health services Dr Sally Phillips ...

MLC Life recruits head of underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
MLC Life Insurance appointed a 30-year industry veteran as its new head of underwriting. Mick Jones will join MLC in August and report to chief underwriter and head of new business Debbie Kennedy. He will be responsible for leading the underwriting ...

TAL to boost adviser underwriting knowledge

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
A new underwriting education initiative from TAL will help advisers and clients better understand the underwriting process. TAL launched the education initiative to increase transparency in the underwriting process, and said the initiative would provide ...

Best-in-show list addresses insurance gaps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... best-in-show list everyone is happy with. Another issue the Commission wants to address is how insurers are pricing underwriting group policies. Campo noted how "careful" insurers are when constructing underwriting arrangements and that Cbus will address ...

TAL veterans launch new life insurance provider

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... people, partnerships and strategy Martin Kelly, who recently led Westpac General Insurance; and head of operations and underwriting Gemma Wheeler, who was BT's national new business and underwriting manager. In a social media post, Yardley said NEOS ...

Default life insurance reforms ineffective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... nation's policy holders, and a change to the default model would leave these members exposed where there is some form of underwriting." Combatting the erosion of member balances was among the Productivity Commission's recent recommendations in its review ...

Daido Life buys stake in life insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... products after raising $165 million of capital and acquiring QBE Life for $21.7 million. The deal saw Integrity Life underwriting the life insurance component of QBE's consumer credit insurance suite sold via financial institutions. Integrity Life ...

LaSalle acquires Aviva real estate business

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... about 300 professionals in five global locations working across fund management, asset management, asset origination, underwriting, research and business management. This article was updated at 10.16am on 01/06/18 and again at 12.30pm.

Powered by Lloyds and KPMG, insurtech offers cybersecurity insurance

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... Syndicate at Lloyd's has underwritten the Edmund project. Munich Re Syndicate Limited's London-based chief underwriting officer Dominick Hoare said SMEs are becoming more aware of the business impact of a cyber security breach. However, as their ...