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Free advice for bushfire victims

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... temporarily postponing home loan repayments, a one-off three month waiver form paying AMP life, total and permanent disability, trauma, income protection and business expenses insurance premiums. The package also includes the earl release of superannuation ...

Politician urges Treasurer to protect advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... are relevant to their clients. Steggall requested: "That risk advisers who deal only with life cover, income protection, trauma cover etc. need not participate in areas covered in the new courses such as financial markets, financial products, Centrelink ...

Life Company of the Year crowned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... namesake award, TAL was named Life Company of the Year for the third consecutive year. TAL also took home the award for trauma and critical illness protection. In the Life Company of the Year Awards MLC won for income protection, Challenger took home ...

High claims acceptance among insurers: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... be a correspondingly lower percentage." The report said insurers are not accepting as many claims for things like TDP, trauma and accidents due to the complexities of accessing the claims, whereas deaths and funerals and relatively straightforward and ...

Mental health tops TPD claims

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
The underlying causes of total and permanent disability claims have been revealed in new research, and mental health tops the list. Life insurers pay out more on TPD claims caused by mental health conditions than any other kind of condition, according ...

Group insured, advised clients better off

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... total permanent disability admittance rates came in at 87% for advised clients, and just 59% for those without an adviser. Trauma admittance rates were even, with both channels registering 87%, but the trend returned when it came to disability income ...

OnePath updates trauma definitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
OnePath has updated more than 600 trauma definitions in a bid to be more customer-centric as part of its commitment to the Life Insurance Code of Practice. The review, which commenced in 2018, assessed more than 25,000 trauma policies to ensure the ...

FSC to enact binding standard on genetic testing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... code is rewritten." For consumers, the moratorium means they will be able to get up to $500,000 of life cover, $200,000 of trauma cover or $4000 a month income protection cover without having to disclose genetic testing results. These measures bring ...

TAL goes back-to-back at AFA awards

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... quality award, while AIA's Priority Protection Life Cover Plan saw the insurer take out the term life/TPD category. The trauma and critical illness category was won by BT Financial Group for its Protection Living Plus Plan. MLC Life was recognised ...

Clearview overhauls life insurance premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... new pricing structures from 1 March 2019. Stepped and hybrid premiums life and TPD premium rates will be lowered, while trauma, income protection and business expenses premiums will increase. Rates for new level premium business are also increasing. ...