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Zurich cleared by Federal Court in life insurance dispute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024
... income protection policy. The case marks ASIC's first attempt to impose a civil penalty under s13 of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth), a section that mandates insurers uphold the duty to act with utmost good faith. In 2018, OnePath, previously ...

ASIC looking to send message with eToro action

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... Federal Court after it was found guilty of several breaches of the ASIC Act, the Corporations Act, and the Insurance Contracts Act between November 2015 and October 2018.

Poor policy administration sees MLC Life pay $22m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... Federal Court after it was found guilty of several breaches of the ASIC Act, the Corporations Act, and the Insurance Contracts Act between November 2015 and October 2018. At the time, MLC provided income protection cover through policies that contained ...

Insurers are 'fishing' for non-disclosures: ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2022
... used to check potential inconsistencies in claim information. Since March 2019, section 13(2)(A) of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 imposes a civil penalty on an insurer that fails to act towards an insured with utmost good faith. The penalty did not ...

Investment bonds a good alternative to Wills: GDG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
... Investors can also withdraw their funds at any time. Further, they are treated as non-estate assets (under the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 ) and can be cordoned off from future claims made by creditors (under the Bankruptcy Act 1996 ). Salsbury said ...

Court makes orders in ASIC versus TAL

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... history". The court yesterday found TAL guilty of breaching its duty to act with utmost good faith under the Insurance Contracts Act. (Interestingly, TAL's lawyers had alleged the customer breached her duty of good faith under the Act by failing ...

ASIC turns up the heat on enforcement

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
One year on from a Royal Commission lambasting, ASIC is continuing to increase its efforts to chasten large institutions for misconduct, latest enforcement activity numbers show. In its latest six monthly report into its enforcement and regulatory work ...

Ongoing fees, advice fees in super to be reformed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... renewals, identification of services and consent to fees will be necessary if the legislation becomes law. The Insurance Contracts Act would also be amended so that an insurer may only avoid a contract of life insurance on the basis of non-disclosure ...

TAL loses group insurance mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... concerns, and accused her of breaching her duty of disclosure and duty of utmost good faith under the Insurance Contracts Act. ASIC is seeking civil penalties for TAL's alleged breach of section 12DB of the ASIC Act - which attracts a maximum penalty ...

ASIC takes action against TAL over RC case

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... claim's voidance "asserted" the customer had breached her duty of good faith under section 13 of the Insurance Contracts Act. ASIC said it believes TAL's investigation of the customer's medical history was based on false statements the insurer ...
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