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TAL hires former Rest executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... insurance products through Suncorp's distribution network. Suncorp's Australian life insurance offerings including term life, income protection and funeral insurance will be added to TAL's current product offerings. TAL group chief executive ...

TAL slashes jobs, cuts outbound sales

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... viable. TAL scooped a number of awards at the Strategic Insight Direct Life Insurance Awards last night, taking home the Term Life Award; Funeral Cover Level Premiums Award for the Insuranceline Final Expenses Plan; the Innovation Award for the Qantas ...

NobleOak wins best direct life insurer award

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... Protection Plan - IP Cover; and the Customer Service Award for Life Companies. TAL Life also won four awards. It won the Term Life Award for its Lifetime Protect and Funeral Cover Level Premiums Award for its Insuranceline - Final Expenses Plan. It also ...

BT overhauls life cover limits and definitions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... million, farmers will now be able to access up to $5 million in total permanent disability cover. Meanwhile, the amount of Term Life and TPD cover made available to homemakers has increased to $2.5 million and the limit on living insurance has been raised ...

Daido Life buys stake in life insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... a subsidiary of Japanese listed life insurance holding company T&D Holdings. It specialises in providing individual term life insurance by partnering with small and medium-sized enterprises. Integrity Life launched in early 2018 offering group risk products ...

Freedom acquires bank insurance arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... has seen strong organic growth and in the last 12 to 28 months; we have sought to broaden our product range to include term life and mortgage protection. We have said that given a strong balance sheet we would consider the right acquisition if it accelerated ...

TAL named top life insurer for 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... companies, during the implementation stages of the Life Insurance Framework," he said. Other winners on the night included: Term Life/TPD Product of the Year - Zurich (Death Cover) Risk Production Innovation - AMP (LIF Resource Hub for advisers); and ...

Advisers reckoning with direct risk sales growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... likely to have life insurance policies compared than those living in other states, the report said. In terms of products, term life policies have dominated in-force annual premiums (42%) over the last decade, followed by income protection (27%), trauma ...

Life insurance market flat: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... policy closures. In 2016, direct business reported about $1.1 billion of individual risk inflows; $562 million came from term life products, followed by $334 million in funeral insurance. In-force direct business, including risk lump sum and income protection ...

Reporting overhaul to hit insurer profits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... Bradley. While the new standards apply across general insurance, health and reinsurance products, insurers providing long-term life insurance contracts will be most affected, Bradley said. Insurers have until 2021 to implement the changes, but EY Oceania ...