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Same insurance cover, different price: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... contracted a major illness would only have to prove that they can no longer perform their regular job. But in most current TPD policies, to successfully claim against these policies they will now have to prove they can no longer perform any job aligned ...

ASIC takes civil action against AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... The practice allowed planners to receive higher commissions than normal by advising clients to cancel their existing life, TPD, trauma and income protection insurance policies. By advising clients to take out new replacement policies instead, planners ...

Efficiency and transparency drive client satisfaction during life claims: Beddoes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... assessment, payment, claims staff and ongoing claims management. The report tracks the experience of customers with a paid TPD, trauma or income protection claim against the core aspects. Five-hundred recent claims customers who took out a policy through ...

Super State of Origin: Who wins?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... product between the two states. On average, a 25-year-old will pay more per week for Death and Total and Permanent Disablement (TPD) insurance in a NSW superannuation fund. Again NSW has the most expensive and cheapest MySuper product when it comes to ...

Life insurance data improving: Regulators

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... individual non-advised cover in every instance. Individual non-advised claimants suffered particularly lower admittance in TPD cover, registering 67% while group was admitted at an 84% rate, with individual-advised reaching 86%. Death cover achieved ...

Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... through income protection (IP) products (including Group Salary Continuance products) and Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) products, MLC said in its submission. MLC Life Insurance chief claims officer Natalie Cameron said the change could benefit ...

Industry fund simplifies super access

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... balances. The two entities have worked together since 1988. In November 2017 the super fund reduced the rate of life insurance and TPD premiums by 7%, locked in for three years. It previously did the same for income protection cover.

Royal Commission case study: advice put retirement in ruins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... in a HESTA superannuation account and $52,000 in a Cbus account. Between them they had about $300,000 in life and TPD insurance through super. Liabilities reported to the adviser included a $444,000 mortgage, a personal Westpac loan for $40,000, two ...

Cardena Private Wealth adds life insurance

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... MBS-Cardena integrated insurance offering will include business continuity insurance, income protection insurance, trauma, life, TPD cover - for individuals as well as for group risk protection of companies' staff. MBS has secured the partnership at ...

Merged super funds save $30m for members

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... Sunsuper announced it became a signatory of the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice and will drop TPD insurance premiums for life product members by an average of 20%. From 1 July 2018, Sunsuper will adopt a tiered cover approach to ...