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Super outstrips other channels in disability risk profits

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... loss of 10.5% for ordinary channels in 2014. Traditional channels stood up much better in the lump sum risk, or death and TPD, product segment. Ordinary channels managed to increase profit margin from 10.8% to 12.4% between 2014 and 2015. While this ...

Industry fund encourages members to claim insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... Super that encourages workers to talk to their super fund first when making a claim on their Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) or Income Protection (IP) insurance. Energy Super chief executive Robyn Petrou expressed concern that in some instances ...

Cbus moves insurance to TAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... reflect that risk. As part of the new deal Cbus will also introduce a "professional" scale of cover and provide access to TPD cover to age 70 for all members. Cbus chief executive David Atkin said the competitive tender process was a good outcome for ...

Rice Warner highlights $1.8trn insurance gap

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... Warner's Underinsurance in Australia report. The report is based on levels of life insurance, total and permanent disability (TPD) and income protection as at June 30, 2014. The "gap" is determined by comparing the estimated amount of cover needed based ...

AustralianSuper to pay early insurance to terminally ill

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... through their superannuation to insurance benefits including life insurance and total and permanent disability insurance (TPD)," she said. "Each insurance policy is different, but often they allow the life insurance benefit to be paid as a terminal illness ...

Life risk sales falling

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Individual death, total permanent disability (TPD) and trauma insurance sales fell by 8% to $280 million in the March quarter, according to research by DEXX&R. DEXX&R's report notes that this time is "traditionally the slowest quarter" for insurance ...

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... sum insured per dollar per week has fallen 4.6% over the past 12 months for combined death and total permanent disability (TPD) cover and 5.6% for death-only cover. Combined death/TPD cover for high-risk occupations fell more substantially compared to ...

AIA launches business life insurance benefit

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... Safeguard Forward Underwriting Benefit (FUB) will allow business owners to increase their life, total permanent disability (TPD) and crisis recovery insurance under certain circumstances. These include when owners start a business; increase their equity ...

Life insurer premiums up amid group policy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... "opt-in" offers that don't require a health check-up, tightening the definition of Total and Permanent Disablement, grading TPD payments on "severity", requiring further and more comprehensive "health questions", and excluding more "pre-existing conditions" ...

Signs that churning is on the wane

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Research by DEXX&R shows individual lump sum discontinuances in life, TPD and trauma insurance fell in the 12 months to December 2014. Further, rates of discontinuances have been falling since 2012 - having risen steadily for the previous two years ...