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Energy Super launches group insurance platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... increase cover online, submit claim notifications as well as lodge and track claims. It also integrates with online underwriting solution, UnderwriteMe, to help simplify the underwriting process for members. For trustees and administrators, LifeView ...

AMP introduces facial recognition for mobile clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... go by. A North Carolina technology firm, Lapetus Life Event Solutions, recently developed CHRONOS, an end-to-end underwriting platform that predicts a person's life expectancy by scanning hundreds of points on their face to extract information. Already ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... industry," the report reads. "Conversely, if it is known that genetic test information may need to be disclosed for use in underwriting life insurance policies that may deter people from undertaking a test that could benefit their wellbeing." The Actuaries ...

Westpac faces class action over life insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... buy life insurance and it was wrong to make direct comparisons as they have different service levels and different underwriting processes, both of which flow into pricing. "BT's principle is to make insurance as affordable as possible for as many people ...

MLC fixes premiums for 12 months

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... the last 12 months we have made a number of enhancements to our products and services, including recent changes to underwriting, and we look forward to continuing this in future." MLC Life recently expanded its Best Doctors service to policyholders under ...

Life insurers challenged by waning planner loyalty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... that extends across the entire value chain. "Insurers need to provide support from the back end, through seamless underwriting and online applications, all the way to the front end, by assisting planners with client engagement and education," Choi said. ...

Hiking life premiums is short-term thinking: ANZ Wealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... products that focus on returning disabled claimants to health by leveraging new technologies for seamless, personalised underwriting and tailored communications, the paper noted. "A broader choice of life insurance products with different price points ...

Investec to take on Aussie ABL sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... void left by GE Capital when it left the ABL market with the new platform to be led by GE's former director of ABL underwriting, Furqan Badri. "Investec will replicate its successful UK model by offering a combination of Asset Based and Cash Flow Lending. ...

TAL equips advisers with cancer education

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... discern the staging, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cancer. The medical terminology used when it comes to underwriting and assessing product definition requirements at claims time will also be explained, along with minimum definitions as set out ...

Underwriting expert joins ClearView

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... partnerships with independent financial advisers. Warren Page will be responsible for leading ClearView's national underwriting team and partnering with the group's reinsurer to evolve its underwriting processes. He'll also develop adviser relationships ...