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CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... climate change risk management disclosures as it continued to ignore the "material business risk" it poses. In particular, claimants pointed to the bank's refusal to rule out participating in funding for the Adani Carmichael coal mine. The claim made ...

Hiking life premiums is short-term thinking: ANZ Wealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... said. The solution lies in creating more targeted and clearly differentiated products that focus on returning disabled claimants to health by leveraging new technologies for seamless, personalised underwriting and tailored communications, the paper noted. ...

Life insurance claims handling must improve: ISWG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... papers around the development of the Life Insurance Code of Practice for superannuation trustees, the Group states that claimants become entwined with a group of stakeholders with differing priorities and more needs to be done to ensure faster claims ...

Life insurance industry rebuts need for greater reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... rationalisation of legacy products and reduce costs; and the allowance of insurers to provide rehabilitation support to claimants. Also appearing for public hearings were representatives from MLC, BT Financial Group, AIA Australia and ANZ. In its submission ...

Rejected TPD claims deemed fair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... additional processes when reviewing TPD claims, including a third layer of internal review for all denials prior to claimants being notified. EY said the findings of the review were consistent with an earlier review undertaken by the consultancy firm ...

New life code could go further: lawyer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... protection payments not being made on time or being cut off without immediate explanation did not go far enough and that claimants are not appropriately protected by the guidelines in relation to interrogations, surveillance and medical examinations. ...

BT health score helping claimants back to work

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
A health score introduced by BT a year ago to help its insurance claimants get back into the workforce is showing strong signs of being a success. Introduced in July 2015, BT's health outcome measure assesses a person on a number of health aspects including ...

AFA and Beddoes announce consumer choice award winners

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... the preliminary award winners of the 2016 Consumer Choice Awards. The awards are given to insurers rated by over 2,100 claimants and advised policyholders. The preliminary winners, ahead of the first Annual Consumer Choice Awards in November, include ...

Life insurers must be more transparent: AFA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
... insurance companies have allowed an independent assessment of their life insurance, trauma, TPD and income protection claimants from the last 12 months, with the results showing claimants who have a financial adviser have a much better experience with ...

TAL Direct business penalised for advertising

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... the product," ASIC's statement said. The statement added that the advertising could be misconstrued as suggesting that claimants would receive in their bank accounts "at least part of any benefits to which they were entitled during the five weeks they ...