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Awards to recognise the best in life insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... Award. The category awards for product include Term/TPD Product of the Year, Trauma Product of the Year and Income Protection Product of the Year while the service awards include Underwriting and New Business Services, Claims Services and Business Support. ...

Westpac launches affordable bill cover

... are injured and are unable to work," he said. The product offers four levels of premium that provide monthly income protection cover ranging from $600 to $1,500 per month. The monthly premium range between $12.64 for the most basic level to $21.85 for ...

MLC announces free insurance upgrades

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... said Greg Einfeld, general manager MLC Insurance. MLC has also improved the limits and benefits for life cover, income protection and TPD insurance. Einfeld said it made sense to roll-out the changes to new and existing customers, and was part o MLC's ...

HIP in the spirit of giving out member benefits

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... an insurance deal with ING that translated to a 15 per cent increase in death and a 30 per cent increase in income protection insurance cover at no additional cost to members as well as the inclusion of a TPD cover option. HIP also negotiated access ...

HESTA cranks up insurance for members

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... members. The improvements include more cover for those in the 40-55 age group, better and cheaper coverage for income protection, access to death cover or lump sum TPD cover in advance for a terminal illness, a doubling of default death cover and improved ...

ING OneCare minds the insurance gap

... also tapped into the needs of homemakers or part-time workers who want insurance cover but do not qualify for income protection due to their age or occupation. "Living Expense Cover has been a tremendous success for us and has been embraced by the market ...

Asteron ramps up insurance and income protection

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
Asteron has ramped up its life insurance and income protection offerings to try to remedy a significant shortfall in income protection for small business owners and self-employed workers. The move is in response to research conducted by Rice Walker ...

HESTA boosts insurance for members

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... benefits, effective 1 November, will offer members two extra units of death cover and increase their level of income protection per unit. Under the scheme, a member's new default level of death cover will be up to $160,000 and member income protection ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... more than $1 billion had good death and TPD cover, smaller funds with less than $300 million offered the best income protection premium per cover value even after adjusting for broad risk levels." Keevers said the data debunked the assumption that more ...

CFS adds to sales team

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... offerings, including in the area of life products, the inclusion of total and permanent disability (TPD) inside the income protection stream as well as increasing the number of critical illnesses covered from 41 to 45.