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Treasury consults on genetic test ban in life insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... refuse life cover or offer it on less favourable terms, provided they do so in compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). They can also still ask about diagnoses that resulted from a genetic test and will be able to access test results ...

Treasury mulls reforming use of genetic test results by life insurers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023
... Insurance Code of Practice, now overseen by the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI), and the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. If there were government intervention, the consultation also asks whether it be ASIC or the Australian Human Rights ...
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