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MLC slashes premiums

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... discounted its critical illness policies by up to 10 per cent for amounts greater than $500,000, and by up to 15 per cent for insured amounts more than $1 million. Existing policyholders automatically receive the savings when renewing their policy. David ...

Aviva cuts accountants from insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... underwriting services by removing the need for financial advisers to include an accountant's signature, regardless of the sum insured. According to the firm, if the sum insured is less than $3 million, the cover can be awarded using only a financial ...

Have DNA, will buy insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... stems from the fact they attend to the experience of the group, not the individual. And as more and more people become insured, the experience of the community as a whole can continue regardless of DNA testing. "If an insurer were to give the member ...

Vision Super teams up with CommInsure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... insurance products to allow members to increase and customise their cover. The income protection policy allows members to be insured for up to three quarters of their salary and 10 per cent of their super contributions. Peter Rowe, Vision Super general ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... under threat because of their exposure to risky mortgage bonds. That has forced banks to write down the value of holdings insured by the two companies. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 96.72 points, or 0.79 per cent, to end at 12,381.02. The Standard ...

AIG's insurance web revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... direct under writing and monitoring. According to SelectingSuper, AIG leads the group insurance market for number of lives insured.

IOOF improves insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... taken the bold step of automatically arranging up to $200,000 of death, total and permanent disablement cover for non-insured members and increasing the insurance cover of existing members by up to 30 per cent. Starting next year, members are guaranteed ...

Australians top list but still underinsured

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... blasA(C) attitude to risk, and 64 per cent underinsurance, Australia still ranks as one of the developed world's best insured nations, according to a new AXA report. The 2007 AXA Protection Report compared attitudes to life risks and rates of individual ...

Climate change to cost $50bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... fifteen-fold increase in weather-related insurance claims over the last 30 years. In particular, 40 per cent of businesses insured by Allianz' were affected by storm and floods damage. "The cost of insured losses will rise significantly in the next decade ...

Seven page PDS insurance breakthrough

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... consumers need it and should have to pay for it," he said. For example, you don't need an adviser to tell you your sum insured should be 10 times your annual salary, said Poole. "We also shortened the PDS to seven pages, even with no 'incorporation by ...