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Aussies to lose $100m to fraudsters

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... turn to digital platforms for managing finances," Finbold said. Other scams include online shopping ($7.4m), health and medical products ($3.9m), identity theft ($3.1m) and unexpected lottery wins ($1.7m). The huge loss signals that investment fraud ...

Synchron demands clarity from insurers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... advantage of the new regime to force policyholders into a completely new policy? If so, will the policyholder have to have medical underwriting? Will they be forced onto a different premium structure? Will they lose a key benefit not available in the ...

Court makes orders in ASIC versus TAL

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... after being diagnosed with cervical cancer. TAL voided her policy, saying she had failed to disclose some "unrelated prior medical history". The court yesterday found TAL guilty of breaching its duty to act with utmost good faith under the Insurance ...

Chief economist update: The vaccine has landed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... Australian history as VAC (vaccine against covid-19) Day (although Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly and 84-year-old Polish aged-care resident Jane Malysiak, received their gift of jab a day earlier). Two days ...

Hostplus enhances ESG option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... oil; and operate for-profit detention centres. Hostplus sees the option benefiting from its investment in healthcare and medical solutions via its venture capital investments. Instead, SRI will invest in companies that contribute to sustainable outcomes ...

PPS Mutual offers new IP solution

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... benefit by a maximum of 50% in any two-year period. PPS said they can do this without the need for additional health or medical underwriting, however evidence of their increased income will be required. PPS said the monthly benefit can be increased up ...

Ponzi schemer succeeds at appeal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... The court of appeal found that evidence from two witnesses should not have been admitted at his trial. It held that the medical evidence relied on by the prosecution was inadequate to establish that the witnesses were unable to give evidence at the trial. ...

Sydney firm launches new venture capital fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... invested in a number of talented health professionals and am seeing continuous deal-flow of innovations coming from the medical community. This shouldn't come as a great surprise given our best and brightest have been going into medicine but what has ...

Integrity Life updates product offering

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... provides reimbursement on accommodation for immediate family members if visiting the policyholder while they are receiving medical care. The package also includes home care, grief care for the policyholder and their family and the ability for those who ...

Ignition Advice appoints deputy chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... listed Sirius Minerals. He is also chair of the Garvan Foundation and non-executive director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Scrimshaw has also worked in various departments at Commonwealth Bank, Optus, Amdahl and IBM Australia. "I am very ...