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CBA posts record profit despite dip from wealth division

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... weather events and a 6% increase in inforce premiums due to higher renewals, partly offset by lower new business sales. CommInsure Investments saw net outflows of $1.06 billion to bring total assets to $12.27 billion in a period that saw the brand affected ...

O'Dwyer says life insurance back on the agenda

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... the new Turnbull government. She added that the government will be working with ASIC following its investigation into CommInsure "so as to determine whether those issues are indicative of wider problems across the life insurance sector." On the issue ...

ClearView adds annuities to wrap

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
Challenger and CommInsure annuities have been added to ClearView Wealth's wrap platform. Selected annuities from both providers have been available to advisers using the platfom from 1 July. Changes driven by feedback from advisers have also been made ...

Group market weakness hurts 12-month risk figures

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... business. Otherwise only Zurich (6.3%), off a lower base, and OnePath (6.2%) recorded higher risk sales year on year. CommInsure (-42.7%), Suncorp (-24.7%), AMP (-22.9%) and National Australia/MLC (-16.5%) by contrast recorded significant double digit ...

Group risk premium inflows up 6.9%

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... fund Cbus. The firm's market share has risen to 26.4% of the market, tied with AIA at the top of the league tables. CommInsure, MetLife and NAB/MLC round out the top five with 12.2%, 9% and 8.5% of market share respectively. Plan For Life's data also ...

CommInsure appoints independent review expert

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
CommInsure has announced the appointment of its independent expert to review past life insurance claims. Deloitte will responsible for selecting a representative sample of denied CommInsure claims over the last five years, determining the validity of ...

TAL appoints GM Health Services

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
TAL has appointed an ex CommInsure executive as general manager health services in the hope of improving its customer experience through its medical and health capabilities. Sally Phillips will take on the newly created role and will be responsible ...

Life insurers paid $6.9bn in claims in 2015

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... Australians every working day in 2015. The numbers are aggregated from AIA Australia, AMP, Asteron/Suncorp, BT, ClearView, CommInsure, Hannover, Macquarie, MetLife, MLC, OnePath, TAL and Zurich. They do not include the 14 other non-mainstream life insurers. ...

Narev defends CommInsure record, wrote to five customers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... Advice inquiry, Narev said in the letter that "some of the criticism of the industry, and our life insurance business CommInsure, has been fair and some has not." He noted that in 2015, CommInsure paid over $850 million in claims to 22,000 people, arguing ...

CommInsure appoints independent review panel

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
CommInsure has appointed its independent claims review panel to address "complex claim assessment." The goal of the panel will be to address issues where CommInsure's claims committee recommends a "complex life insurance claim" be denied; in these instances ...