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Insurers design framework for dealing with mental health claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... transparency for customers. CALI will assemble an expert panel, including medical practitioners, legal specialists, rehabilitation and return-to-work experts, life insurance practitioners, and people with lived experience, to help design the framework. ...

Zurich launches new TPD option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... Income Protection products across the Zurich and OnePath brands, including changes to assessment periods; improved rehabilitation offerings; and simplification of definitions and premium labels. Since its acquisition of OnePath Life from ANZ in 2019 ...

AIA Australia names head of wellbeing

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
... structure and welcomed Lucy Hartley as head of wellbeing. Hartley brings over 20 years of experience across claims and rehabilitation in Australia and the UK. She has held senior roles at EMLife and Rehab Management and was most recently the head of ...

AMP names new group insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
... and faster for members to engage with their life insurance or make a claim, to providing comprehensive health, rehabilitation and wellbeing services." AMP announced in 2018 it would exit the life insurance industry. Some two years later, Resolution Life ...

Former director sentenced to over four years imprisonment

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2023
... in sentencing, among other factors such as his youth and naivety at the time of offending, and good prospects of rehabilitation. This matter was prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions following an investigation and referral by ...

ClearView strengthens leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2023
... for overseeing and driving improvements across administration and operations, including underwriting, claims and rehabilitation. She previously worked at Zurich Australia/ANZ as the head of claims for OnePath before becoming chief claims officer in October ...

Poor policy administration sees MLC Life pay $22m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
MLC Life will pay $10 million, in addition to $12 million in remediation, for failing to pay promised rehabilitation benefits. The life insurer was penalised by the Federal Court after it was found guilty of several breaches of the ASIC Act, the Corporations ...

ClearView Wealth appoints rehabilitation manager

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
ClearView Wealth has appointed Alicia Edwards to the newly created position of rehabilitation manager. Before joining she was a senior rehabilitation consultant at OnePath Zurich and also held a number of roles at Konekt. Edwards will be responsible ...

MLC Life Insurance launches wellbeing service

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
... medical condition from a team of experts," he explained. "For those who do need to claim, our team of recovery and rehabilitation experts can provide targeted support services specific to their circumstances. This is particularly helpful for people experiencing ...

ASFA, Deloitte recommend group insurance changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
... from injury or illness," the report said. Analysis found 11% of income protection insurance claimants who access rehabilitation treatment and services are likely to return to work where they otherwise would not have. Broader access to treatment was also ...
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