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Kinetic Super improves insurance offering

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... feature comes in." Other benefits of the insurance upgrade include: Competitive premium rates 20% reduction in income protection premiums Ability to claim on terminal illness cover extended from 12 to 24 months Improved claims process for an improved ...

Zurich revamps life insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... customers to select a combination of life insurances and ownership structures, which includes benefits such as income protection, TPD, death, business expenses and child cover. Together with Wealth Protection, Zurich's on-sale range includes its severity-based ...

MLC launches claims processing platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... make claims quicker and simpler. MLC Life Insurance Claims acting general manager Natalie Eckersall said retail income protection and total and permanent disability claims are now being processed using ClaimFirst, which handles both life and health claims. ...

GROW Super opens for business

ALEX DUNNIN, STEPHEN FAY  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... superannuation through its MySuper option which is a white label of LESF MySuper - meaning it offers group death, TPD and income protection insurance and can accept Super Guarantee contributions. Hannover is their insurance partner. Another point of ...

Life insurance market flat: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... products, followed by $334 million in funeral insurance. In-force direct business, including risk lump sum and income protection stood at $1.5 billion. In terms of providers, it found TAL (22%) led the market, followed by CommInsure (15%), Greenstone/Hannover ...

Asteron Life rewards healthy lifestyles

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... covers. The healthy plus option can save customers an additional 10% on stepped life cover. If bundled with income protection or business expenses cover, an additional 5% applies to all lump sum covers. The healthy lifestyle discounts come at a time ...

Super insurance maintains active pricing: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... weekly premiums for a 40-year-old white collar worker. On average across all insurance types - death, TPD and income protection - the average cover value increased for members. "A greater proportion of funds (38%) increased cover value than decreased ...

CommInsure cleared of medical misconduct

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... financial years, some staff at the insurer had key performance indicators which included net loss ratios and income protection terminations rates. These KPIs have since been removed. Deloitte's independent review of CommInsure found that in 800 claims ...

BT Financial Group wins Life Company of the Year

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... competitors; and market strength, based on sales, market share and growth over the past three years. BTFG also won the Income Protection Award for its Income Protection Plus Plan and the Client Services Team award for its claims division. OnePath won ...

MLC Life Insurance upgrades underwriting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... required at claim time. The package will offer increased life cover limits for these professions and increased income protection limits for new medical professionals. High value clients can now also now take advantage of higher sum insured amounts across ...