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Insurance
Rice Warner has emphasised why insurance should be an integral part of the objective of superannuation....
Insurance
The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has ruled out demotion in job status and seniority as being valid factors in TPD claims....
Insurance
New MetLife/SwissRe white paper spotlights implications of changes to Total and Permanent Disability definitions....
Insurance
Less than half of Aussies have heard of TPD insurance being offered through super funds, according to Slater and Gordon....
Insurance
New research confirms that the way income protection and TPD claims are handled are crucial to long-term outcomes....
Insurance
Maurice Blackburn principal, Peter Koutsoukis, has defended the role of lawyers in dealing with group insurance claims and pointed the finger at insurers’ claims handling...
Insurance
Super fund members should look to their fund first on insurance claims rather than going straight to lawyers....
Expert Analysis
Lawyers have been blamed for many of the problems currently impacting TPD insurance but the roundtable found they might be a symptom of more deeply-rooted problems. ...
Expert Analysis
Many superannuation industry commentators believe that products such as income protection insurance provides a better and more flexible answer than TPD....
Expert Analysis
Total and Permanent Disablement insurance is only one product option available to superannuation funds and there are question marks about whether it is the product option...
Expert Analysis
The problem with total and permanent disablement is that there is not a common and agreed definition being applied....
Expert Analysis
Part of the problem with TPD insurance appears to have been automatic acceptance limits which were too competitive and too generous. Part two of a Super Review TPD roundt...
From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...
Super director remuneration ...
No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...