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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 ...

TAL and Qantas partner for life insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... program can now access Qantas Assure Life Protect products, comprising life insurance, TPD, critical illness and income protection backed by TAL. TAL chief executive and managing director Brett Clark said he is delighted with the new partnership, describing ...

Workers missing out on $147m in super: REST

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... The research also found that less than half of employees (44%) surveyed believe that everyone has access to income protection insurance, regardless of their employment status. "As we shift towards a more contingent workforce, access to income protection ...

AustralianSuper lends muscle to big employers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... Business Solutions, businesses can select default salary based death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) and income protection insurance policies across multiple employee categories; and they now have the option to pay fees and insurance premiums. ...

AIA revamps income protection suite

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2017
AIA made multiple changes to its flagship income protection product series, Priority Protection. If AIA's health and wellness program, AIA Vitality, is attached, new customers will receive an initial 7.5% discount for all income protection and business ...

Top 10 superannuation stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... mercy of a handful of super funds The role of superannuation funds as a distribution mechanism for life and income protection insurance continues to grow in the Australian market, according to new analysis by Rainmaker, which says the dominance of a ...

CommInsure sees adviser revamp

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... nationwide to improve its product offering. The enhancements include more generous expiry ages, an extended indemnity income protection policy, updated trauma definitions and a continuation of total and permanent disability (TPD) cover inside super "when ...