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Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... Minister for Health; they are also not subject to oversight by the Department of Health and Private Health Insurance Ombudsman. PHA is also recommending that life insurers and private health insurers be permitted to share information about compensation ...

FOS submission points finger at advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... the submission reads. FOS will be consolidated into one governing complaints body, along with the Credit and Insurance Ombudsman and Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, to be known as the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. Last week, the Government ...

SMFSA voices support for AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... SMSF Association. Establishing AFCA consolidated the functions of the Financial Ombudsman Service, Credit and Insurance Ombudsman, and Superannuation Complaints Tribunal into one governing body, which was approved in parliament yesterday. Under the passage ...

FOS names insurance ombudsman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
The Financial Ombudsman Service has appointed former director of State Trustees, John Price, as general insurance ombudsman. Michael Lavarch, chair at the board of the Financial Ombudsman Service, said Price is experienced in dispute resolution and ...

FOS insurance ombudsman resigns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is close to naming a new general insurance ombudsman after Sam Parrino resigned from the service. Parrino was named ombudsman - general insurance when FOS in July last year. Prior to joining FOS, Parrino worked ...

FOS gears up to combat record complaints

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... last year when the Banking & Finance Services Ombudsman, the Financial Industry Complaints Service and the Insurance Ombudsman Service merged the service was made-up of around 170 employees that dealt with complaints. That number has increased to just ...

New ombudsman service welcomed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... Banking and Financial Services Ombudsman (BFSO), the Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) and the Insurance Ombudsman Service (IOS). The service is free to consumers. It can make decisions that are binding on participating financial services ...

Financial Ombudsman Service launched

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... the Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS), the Banking and Financial Ombudsman Service (BFSO) and the Insurance Ombudsman Service (IOS). The three schemes deal with most consumer complaints about financial services and cover the vast majority ...
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