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FSC announces winners of insurance awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... Pioneer Award for taking an active role on BT Protection Plans and the creation of the BT teleclaims service for income protection and trauma insurance customers, both industry-first initiatives. He was also part of the launch of BT's award-winning income ...

CommInsure expands income protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
CommInsure has come up with a new product that takes income protection one step further, paying totally and permanently disabled clients a 100% of their income. While traditionally insurance companies only pay 75% of income in these cases, CommeInsure ...

Virgin blazes trail with redundancy cover

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... book in the past 12 months as more people sign up to get insurance. Last September, the group launched Virgin Income Protection, which has the option to offer "unemployment cover". Those who take up the option are paid a monthly benefit for up to three ...

Dixon Advisory a fee for service success story

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... premiums." This applies to personal insurance inside and outside superannuation, including life and TPD insurance and income protection, he said. Unlike other mortage brokers adopting similar approaches, Coates said rather than use hundreds of possible ...

Super operating costs rise to $150 per member

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... with retail funds. "There have been increases in basic levels of cover and the introduction of more and more income protection policies," Walker explained. "We believe that much of the increased costs can be attributed to these factors and this is confirmed ...

TAL wins Life Company of the Year

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... winning the overall Platinum Award, TAL also took away the Term/TPD Product Award and was a finalist for the Income Protection Product Award as well as the Service Quality Award. It was also a finalist for the Underwriting and New Business Team of the ...

Even interns need insurance, too: Asteron Life

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
Asteron Life has updated its Income Protection offer for young professionals and graduates, providing insurance products for those who are just starting their careers and may not necessarily have an earnings history. The products provides higher insurance ...

Australians don't have enough insurance: TAL

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... today by life insurer TAL has shown that Australians don't think they have enough life, illness, disability or income protection insurance. Through Galaxy Research, TAL questioned more than 1200 Australians on the types of life insurance they held, as ...

TAL urges trustees to review default insurance benefits

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... change of focus onto income-type benefits for people who have been totally and permanently disabled? Should income protection be the main default life insurance benefit? Is a two year income protection benefit period - the most common model across insurance ...

Soft-skills critical to maximising adviser value-add

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... happen is difficult for most people to comprehend," says Jones. "The decision by one client not to cancel an income protection policy three weeks before a potentially life-threatening event recently brought home to him the value of having adequate protection." ...