Life Insurance

Consultancy Rice Warner has proposed a new advice model that it says will help take the under-pressure industry forward...

Disability income insurance policies topped the claims paid ratio in two out of the four channels where the products are distributed, new data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority shows...

Westpac’s full-year financial results, which will be released next Monday, will contain a $406 million writedown of its life insurance business...

Life risk premium inflows fell 6.4% to $15.9 billion in the year to June 30 as every insurer, with the exception of market leader TAL and ClearView Life, recorded declines during the period, new data from actuaries and researchers Plan for Life shows...

Former financial planner Sam Henderson has been sentenced to a two-year good behaviour bond and fined $10,000 after being convicted of issuing defective disclosure documents and dishonest conduct...

Joanne Faglioni, the former head of claims for OnePath who became Chief Claims Officer handling retail and group claims for Zurich and OnePath Life, has won the Leadership Award at last week’s Australasian Life Underwriting and Claims Association annual awards...

Count Financial announced today it will provide an educational program for its network of risk advisers in collaboration with MetLife Australia...