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Life insurers double earnings in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... when they collectively made $443 million in net losses. For product lines, revenue for individual disability income insurance (IDII) steadily increased over the 12 months to June to $1 billion. Group disability income insurance reported revenue of $732 ...

Life insurers report another profitable quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... changes to liabilities for incurred claims of $475 million. Across different products, individual disability income insurance (IDII), at the superannuation and ordinary business level, made $1.1 billion in revenues in the March quarter, holding steady ...

Treasury proposes upping supervisory levies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
... funding, from $20 million to $20.4 million. APRA will focus on the long-term sustainability of individual disability income insurance and improving decision-making through data support. In contrast, levy funding for general insurance dropped from $30.2 ...

Don't call it a comeback: APRA on IDII

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
There may well be a light at the end of the individual disability income insurance (IDII) tunnel, but there's still a way to travel before the end is reached, according to APRA. Analysis of data to September 2022 shows IDII enjoyed a run of favourable ...

Insurers are 'fishing' for non-disclosures: ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2022
An ASIC review of individual disability income insurance claims has determined that more work is needed by insurers to ensure customers are protected from unfair practices. ASIC has longstanding concerns about the potential consumer harm resulting from ...

APRA suspends IDII work, "disappointed" in industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
APRA has suspended its work on individual disability income insurance, which was causing huge losses to insurance companies, expressing disappointment in the industry's response. The regulator first announced it was intervening on IDII products in 2019 ...

APRA hones in on post-retirement products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021
... products are coming to market - another chicken and egg-type impasse." Rowell highlighted how individual disability income insurance products have resulted in disastrous outcomes for consumers and insurers. She does not want to see super trustees designing ...

IDII pitfalls advisers should avoid

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
Financial advisers must beware the pitfalls of problematic individual disability income insurance products and avoid circumstances that could land them in trouble with the financial complaints body. As part of a panel of experts at the Association of ...

Actuaries Institute unveils IDII recommendations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021
The Actuaries Institute has released sweeping recommendations to help fix the individual disability income insurance (IDII) sector that is currently at "risk of failure". The final recommendations follow a 12 month-review, led by an appointed Actuaries ...

APRA extends IDII overhaul deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... APRA has given life insurers another year to have the policy contract term measure for individual disability income insurance (IDII) in full force by 1 October 2022. The prudential regulator has acknowledged the challenges life insurers are facing, expressing ...
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