Articles tagged with 'Income Protection'
24 March 2020 - Cigna is joining Fidelity Life and Partners Life in putting a hold on new sales of redundancy cover.
3 March 2020 - Partners Life’s changes to IP will not be the end of the matter if reinsurer expectations of the market are correct – and further changes are probably inevitable.
25 February 2020 - The concluding part of Jon-Paul Hale's IP series; reducing cover levels will increase pressure on the already strained public health system.
12 February 2020 - Jon-Paul Hale's third of four articles on income protection; recent critique of the length and motivation for IP claims and how public health and IP don't collide well.
3 February 2020 - In the second part of his series on income protection sustainability, Jon-Paul Hale says there is a cultural side to claims which is overlooked in research.
23 January 2020 - Scrutiny of New Zealand's life insurance sector puts "seeds of doubt" into consumers' minds, the Financial Services Council says.
22 January 2020 - The future of income protection insurance is likely to come under more scrutiny this year. In the first of a four-part series Jon-Paul Hale takes aim at some claims made by Partners Life.
18 January 2020 - Last week Good Returns published five predictions for the year ahead. This week guest contributor David Whyte offers his five predictions for 2020. As he says: "All of which will, of course, come to pass and be regarded as prophetic, insightful, and accurate. Or none of them will come to fruition and will have as much value as an Iranian Rial."
25 September 2019 - Asteron Life has just released its annual survey of SMEs. Find out how life advisers compare to their business counterparts.
12 November 2018 - A New Zealand insurer says there's merit in considering limiting the ability for insurance companies to take the results of genetic tests into account in underwriting up to certain sum assured thresholds.
11 October 2018 - Dishonest claims are pushing up the cost of personal insurance.
30 July 2018 - New Zealand needs a “reasonableness test” in insurance law, to guide insurers when they are assessing cases of non-disclosure, the Insurance and Financial Services Ombudsman says.
24 July 2018 - Cost pressures are prompting increasing number of clients to take longer wait periods on their income-protection cover.
10 May 2018 - An insurance law expert is calling for insurers to accept that a clause allowing them to avoid payouts, based on a person's educational prospects, can only apply to training that happened in the past.
10 April 2018 - Asteron Life research has found only 17% of small and medium enterprise business owners and decision-makers (SMEs) have income protection insurance.
21 November 2017 - One celebrated robo-advice site does nothing to help the customer decide which insurance to choose when the budget crunch has to be acknowledged.
14 September 2017 - A new insurance advice firm is promising consumers a more in-depth online service.
18 August 2017 - Peter Neilson was the chair of the Financial Services Council until insurers quit in revolt over a report into insurance commissions, and was the Associate Minister of Finance during the sharemarket crash. Here, he talks about why advisers should be more like surgeons.
7 July 2016 - Financial advisers are being urged to consider what they can do to get more women engaged with their financial futures.
27 June 2016 - An insurance software provider says New Zealand insurers take too long to get new products and pricing to market, and it is costing them money.
19 May 2016 - A new website promoting income protection insurance has been launched.
9 February 2016 - Most insurers grew their books in the December 2015 quarter, new data shows.
5 January 2016 - A new website designed to educate members of the public about personal insurance products is set to launch in the first quarter of this year.
18 November 2015 - The Financial Services Council is launching a new website, MindTheGap.co.nz, to promote income protection insurance to New Zealanders.
3 November 2015 - Complaints about insurance brokers to disputes resolution scheme Financial Services Complaints Ltd (FSCL) have doubled over the past year.
24 July 2015 - A “mini-Trowbridge Report” has been commissioned by the Financial Services Council, to investigate sales incentives in New Zealand’s personal insurance industry.
25 June 2015 - New Zealand hasn’t had the same problems with income protection claims as in Australia, but there is more companies can do to avoid potential problems, particularly around mental health claims.
24 June 2015 - Reinsurer MunichRe says the current income protection market is unsustainable and it decided to throw away the old actuarial tables used and replace them with something new.
19 June 2015 - Insurance advisers are in a privileged position and need to make their value proposition clear to clients, says the winner of this year's Insurance Adviser of the Year award.
17 April 2015 - Do you think people today are sicker than they used to be just 50 years ago? If not, why are there more of them off work?
26 March 2015 - Russell Hutchinson provides an example of why the policy wording of some income protection products should be changed.
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