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Zurich cleans up at Plan For Life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... Life Companies awards. Held in Sydney on October 27, the awards also recognised NobleOak Life (TPD Award), CommInsure (Trauma Standalone Award), AIA Australia (Trauma Rider Award), OnePath (Accident Cover Award) and TAL Life (Income Protection Award ...

TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... position in the standalone TPD field." Other winners included AMP for Term Life Insurance (along with TAL), OnePath for Trauma Insurance (also with TAL), Macquarie for Income Protection (with TAL again), ClearView for TPD Insurance (with Zurich) and ...

Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... survey of 814 Australians from October to November 2014 and covers life, total permanent disability, income protection and trauma insurance. Key findings include that while nearly 60% of Australians hold life insurance, it is typically (62.7%) purchased ...

AustralianSuper to pay early insurance to terminally ill

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... insurance, Richard Weatherhead, said the super fund wanted to make sure members are not forced to endure any extra stress and trauma in what is an already difficult period. "This will go some small way towards making a member's life more comfortable ...

Life risk sales falling

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Individual death, total permanent disability (TPD) and trauma insurance sales fell by 8% to $280 million in the March quarter, according to research by DEXX&R. DEXX&R's report notes that this time is "traditionally the slowest quarter" for insurance ...

Signs that churning is on the wane

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Research by DEXX&R shows individual lump sum discontinuances in life, TPD and trauma insurance fell in the 12 months to December 2014. Further, rates of discontinuances have been falling since 2012 - having risen steadily for the previous two years ...

Macquarie to close Risk Advice Specialists

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... Advice Specialists was launched in 2012 with six advisers recruited from Patronus Risk Specialists. It focused on life, trauma and disablement cover and estate planning advice. "We will grow the business through selective adviser recruitment," said former ...

AFA and PFL award Australia's top insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... insurers and life risk products at a black tie event in Sydney last night. TAL received the overall Platinum Award and the Trauma award, and was a finalist in the award categories of Service Quality and Term/TPD. CommInsure and BT Financial Group were ...

APRA deputy chair criticises life insurance sales culture

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... the former, he noted issues such as product features with pricing "not supported by rigorous analysis", disablement and trauma definitions too open to interpretation, underwriting processes compromised to appease advisers' cost concerns and paying benefits ...

CommInsure wins AFA/PFL Life Company of the Year

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... their risk products in 2013, while at the same time paying attention to increased claim rates in product sectors such as Trauma through increases in premium rates." The AFA / PFL product awards are based on data provided by participating companies to ...