As the industry slows down for the Christmas and New Year holidays, NIBA will continue to examine reform proposals from the...
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Insurance Reforms Continue: A note from Dallas Booth
ASIC urges AFS licensees to provide new information abo ...
ASIC has prompted Australian financial services (AFS) licensees who have not yet updated the Financial Advisers Register (Register) to add new...
ASIC reports on assessment of licensing and professiona ...
ASIC has released its latest report on its assessment of licensing and professional registration applications. Warren Day, Executive Director, Assessment &...
New Professional Standards Scheme
Insurance brokers who advise and assist building professionals may be interested to know that the Association of Consulting Surveyors has applied...
ASIC proceedings against TAL Life Limited for handling ...
ASIC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against insurer TAL Life Limited (TAL) for alleged breaches of the ASIC Act,...
NSW Government pushes for national farm income protecti ...
The NSW Government has called on Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments to back a national income protection scheme to insure farmers...
Home building compensation in NSW to be reviewed
The NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is reviewing the consumer protections available for home owners through the NSW home...
icare committed to delivering improvements
icare Group Executive Prevention and Underwriting, Andrew Ziolkowski, has reflected on his first 12 months at the organisation and says while...
Nominations invited to celebrate high performing brokin ...
It’s that time of the year again – when the search begins for brilliant brokers who deserve to be celebrated. The...
ASIC to ban unfair cold call sales of direct life insur ...
ASIC has announced the implementation of a ban on unsolicited ‘cold call’ telephone sales of direct life insurance and consumer credit...
Insurance claims handling to be made a financial servic ...
The Federal Treasury has released draft legislation on making insurance claims handling a financial service, and therefore subject to regulatory oversight...
CommInsure sentenced for hawking offences
The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited, trading as CommInsure, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), has...
APRA and ASIC issue updated MoU
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have jointly published an updated Memorandum of Understanding...
icare announces claims management services providers
NSW Workers Compensation Provider, icare has announced that, from early next year, eligible customers will have the choice of multiple Authorised...