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Tower upgrades Accelerate and TPP

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... "full-suite" coverage for advisers and clients who prefer to lodge their applications online and slash time receiving underwriting results. Meanwhile, the TPP range has been upgraded to meet changing customer needs and is now available for clients and ...

Good news at last for AIG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... on the books for longer, said David Mounsey, AIG Life head of adviser services. AIG Life also launched its forward underwriting benefits service, which allows clients to take a medical test now and receive up to $10 million of crisis, life or total and ...

MLC upgrades its group insurance suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... double payments for the remaining three months for up to a six months. Automatic acceptance levels were increased and underwriting bands cut to reduce the amount of underwriting required. Members can receive a higher amount of cover during the application ...

Aviva grants free child life insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... parents' critical illness policies, provides critical illness cover of $10,000 for each dependant child without more underwriting and at no extra cost where a critical illness cover of at least $100,000 is held. The new benefits include restrictions ...

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... market's extreme fear, these are times when moral hazard is at best. Previously, only central banks (the Fed) were underwriting companies that are deemed too big to fail. This time, National Governments and investment regulators - alone or in concert ...

FPA joins IFSA in mental health initiative

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... Association (IFSA), which has long championed the cause and has commissioned studies to find the appropriate rating and underwriting practices to cover people with mental health issues. Among IFSA's findings was that the number of people applying for ...

Zurich launches cadetship program

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... said they would try and work with the cadet to find which division they would like to work in, whether it's in the underwriting, claims or in one of Zurich's investment units.

MLC cuts medical requirements

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... million. "Our extensive analysis of more than 2,000 files confirmed there is a direct relationship between mandatory underwriting limits, the number and type of claims and premium rates," said Tracey Crowe, MLC head of underwriting. "The study clearly ...

Saving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... drive problems in overseas markets. "The reason why they matter today is because [these] agencies are now basically underwriting all the lending in the US housing market. "The concept of these two entities getting into trouble or potentially failing... ...

AIG takes group insurance online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... workload and increase the number of applications that can be instantly approved. The eForm gathers all the mandatory underwriting required by AIG Life during the initial application for cover by a member. The firm's members are able to 'save' at any ...