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- Employers Liability Newsletter - April 2024
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Employers Liability Newsletter - August 2024
- Employer’s vicarious liability for the actions of its employees confirmed
- NSW District Court clarifies the disputes that the Personal Injury Commission can determine when a party resides in a different State
- The importance of a ‘claim’ prior to an assessment of impairment in the Personal Injury Commission
- The ‘Scheme Modernisation’ Changes to Victoria’s Workers Comensation Laws - will they have the desired impact?
- Employers Liability Newsletter - July 2024
- Employers Liability Newsletter - June 2024
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Employers Liability Newsletter - May 2024
- Calculation of PIAWE – absence from work while in receipt of weekly payments does not constitute a ‘period of unpaid leave.’
- Consent orders and judgements: their role in avoiding liability for impairment stemming from subsequent injuries
- The meaning of ‘discipline’ when applying the section 11A(1) defence
- Employers Liability Newsletter - October 2024
- Employers Liability Newsletter - September 2024
- Employers Liability Newsletter - March 2024
- Employers Liability Newsletter - February 2024
- Employers Liability Newsletter - December 2023
- Employers Liability Newsletter - November 2023
- Employers Liability Newsletter - October 2023
- Employers Liability Newsletter - September 2023
- Employers Liability Newsletter - September 2023
- Employers Liability Newsletter - August 2023
- Employers Liability Newsletter - July 2023
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Employers Liability Newsletter - June 2023
- Deteriorating into not MMI – the impact of a Medical Assessment on a worker’s suitability for assessment
- Presidential decision on the application of the transitional provisions relating to lump sum compensation
- The Standard of Proof: Tribunal finds in favour of plaintiff despite not being able to give direct evidence of exposure
- Employers Liability Newsletter - May 2023
- Employers Liability Newsletter - April 2023
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Employers Liability Newsletter - March 2023
- Court of Appeal confirms culpable company director personally liable to reimburse insurance fund
- Industrial Deafness claims: Impairment from subsequent hearing loss can be excluded in certain circumstances
- Recent cases regarding the distinction between employees and independent contractors, and whether the ‘gig economy’ blurs the line
- Work capacity decisions and the importance of suitably qualified expert evidence
- Employers Liability Newsletter - February 2023
- Employers Liability Newsletter - December 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter - November 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter - October 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter - September 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter August 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter July 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter June 2022
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Employers Liability Newsletter May 2022
- Addressing a lump sum compensation claim that includes a 0% WPI body part
- Complexity of Disease Claims
- Injuries on third party premises - employer’s duty is not absolute but to take reasonable care
- Personal Injury Commission – Key Rule Changes
- Personal Injury Commission – Key Rule Changes
- Personal Injury Commission – Key Rule Changes
- When an injured person is in the course of employment around the clock
- Employers Liability Newsletter April 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter March 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter February 2022
- Employers Liability Newsletter December 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter November 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter October 2021
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Life Insurance Bulletin - April 2022
- AFCA confirms the continued importance of up to date medical definitions in trauma policies
- AFCA finds no misleading or deceptive conduct by insurer and trustee in issuing group life cover with ‘Limited Cover’
- FCA affirms AFCA’s broad jurisdiction to deal with superannuation complaints
- FCA imposes penalty on trustee for misleading conduct towards fund members
- FSC to ban exclusions and restrictive definitions based on occupational classifications
- Note from the Editor - April 2022
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Life Insurance Bulletin - October 2021
- Note from the editor - October 2021
- Court finds trustee, and not insurer, liable for life insurance cover that had ceased under the PYS changes
- The LICOP 2.0… the wait is almost over
- ASIC identifies areas of focus in relation to TPD Insurance
- Proposed enhancements to the Unfair Contract Terms Regime: What you need to know
- New Breach Reporting Obligations: ASIC Guidance
- VCAT considers the definition of ‘domestic partners’
- AFCA finds insurer properly exercised its right to significantly increase premium rates
- Financial Advice: AFCA determines customer suffered no loss despite inappropriate insurance policy recommendation
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Life Insurance & Superannuation Bulletin - December 2019
- What's happening here and now? December 2019
- AFCA Group – Avoidance by later in time insurer
- Crossing the “important and clear line” between general and personal advice
- TPD - Delay in Assessing Claims
- TPD - Hearne v Street Orders No longer Necessary
- TPD - Imperfect Decline Reasoning
- ASIC Report 663 on TPD – Analysis and Implications
- Extending Unfair Contract Terms to Life Insurance Contracts
- The Financial Services Reform Roadmap
- ASIC Report - Mandatory claims and disputes reporting - commissions set to stay a little longer
- Binding Death Benefit Nomination Deemed Valid Despite Allegation of Duress and Coercion
- Circumstantial Silence by Trustee Deemed Misleading and Deceptive Conduct
- Court Rules on Offset Provisions
- Court Scrutinises Insurer’s Decision
- Employers Liability Newsletter - April 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - April 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter - April 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter - August 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - December 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - December 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter - February 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - February 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter - January 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - July 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - June 2019
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Employers Liability Newsletter - March 2020
- Cannabis trial falls within definition of Medical Treatment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic – Considerations for Your Workplace
- Coronavirus in the workplace - is the employer liable
- Courts and Tribunals - COVID-19
- Pursuing recoveries against negligent third parties: a success story
- The Personal Injury Commission – Proposed legislation
- What Happens When an Employee is Injured Whilst Working at Home?
- Employers Liability Newsletter - March 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter - May 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - May 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter - November 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - November 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter - October 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter - October 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter - September 2019
- Employers Liability Newsletter August 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter August 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter February 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter July 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter July 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter June 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter June 2021
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Employers Liability Newsletter May 2020
- Adding incidents to injury
- Back to basics: revisting contributory negligence and breach of duty of care
- Covid-19 update
- Is a volunteer a worker for the purposes of benefits under the Workers Compensation (Dust Disease) Act 1942?
- National COVID-19 Safe Workplace Principles have been announced
- Section 22/22A - Does quantifying the level of incapacity that stems from an earlier injury require direct evidence from the injured worker themselves?
- Employers Liability Newsletter September 2020
- Employers Liability Newsletter September 2021
- Employers Liability Newsletter – March 2019
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Financial Services Bulletin - September 2018
- Indemnity Costs and section 52(7)(d) of the SIS Act
- Involvement in criminal acts – moving the goal posts of public policy
- Section 54 of the Act prevents a FSP from relying on a technical breach of the policy
- Senate Committee recommends no changes to group insurance budget proposals
- TPD: Reinsurer in the Spotlight
- Unfair Contracts Protections and Life Insurance
- What's happening here and now? September 2018
- Working at reduced capacity and limited medical involvement leads to a decline in TPD Claims
- Fraud - A Conscious Indifference to the Truth
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Life Insurance Bulletin - April 2020
- AFCA disregards policy trauma definition – Says fairness requires benefit to be paid despite definition not being met
- Death Claim – Act of murder ‘forfeits’ joint policy owner’s right to a benefit
- Federal Court considers issue of when a TPD benefit is payable – Also considers interest
- Financial Services Royal Commission Fallout - Claims handling as a Financial Service
- Financial Services Royal Commission Fallout – Proposed changes to the disclosure requirements and remedies under the ICA
- Impact of COVID-19 on Courts and Tribunals
- Note from the Editor - April 2020
- TPD - Intense scrutiny of decline letters continues
- Unfair contract terms regime to apply to life insurance policies from 5 April 2021
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Life Insurance Bulletin - April 2021
- AFCA interprets ‘usual occupation’ to include two unrelated occupations for the purposes of assessing income protection benefits
- AFCA upholds trustee’s decision to distribute death benefit to de facto partner over competing claims
- APRA progresses Prudential Standard 250 governing insurance in superannuation
- ASIC plans to extend its consumer remediation guidance to all AFS licensees
- FCA sets out road map for utmost good faith compliance in non-disclosure/misrepresentation investigations
- HCA delivers key decision – financial product advice given to fund members was personal advice under the Corporations Act
- NSWCA confirms flexible approach to TPD qualifying periods based on wording of TPD definition
- Note from the Editor - April 2021
- Sustainability of Insurance in Superannuation…APRA warns group insurance players
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Life Insurance Bulletin - December 2020
- Claims handling and settling as a financial service – A step closer…
- Consumer Engagement Report – ASIC’s deep dive into super fund member satisfaction
- NSWCA confirms scrupulous and inflexible approach to policy interpretation where clear words used
- Note from the Editor - December 2020
- Offset clauses – The essential elements
- Precision required in TPD Occupational Rating Guides
- S29 ICA: SCT finds new insurer becomes ‘the insurer’ when there is a Part 9 transfer
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Life Insurance Bulletin - July 2020
- AFCA disregards policy trauma definition – ‘fairness’ to the insured was again the determinative factor
- Federal Court considers scope of AFCA’s powers
- Federal Court rules on ‘casual’ employment with potential implications for group life cover
- Federal Court supports application of the Colella ‘capacity’ approach to an ‘unlikely ever to be able’ TPD definition
- LICOP Post Hayne FSRC – A recap and update
- Note from the Editor - July 2020
- Summary of legislative changes to remote witnessing and electronic execution of documents in response to COVID-19
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Life Insurance Bulletin - October 2020
- AFCA finds trauma event arises when it occurs, not when diagnosed
- Court dismisses request for discovery of comparable insurance applications in non – disclosure case
- FCA confirms indemnity costs only ordered in cases where proceedings end by agreement if ‘losing’ party’s case was hopeless
- NSWSC confirms insurers must consider all TPD evidence
- NSWSC confirms s29(2) Avoidance – Court rejects suggestion illicit drug use is akin to drinking alcohol
- NSWSC finds settlement not binding where no executed Deed of Release
- Note from the Editor - October 2020
- Reinsurance: Court rejects request for group insurance takeover material
- Sustainability in Disability Insurance - Actuaries’ Taskforce lays bare the challenges ahead…
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Life Insurance Bulletin June 2021
- AFCA says fairness requires the cancellation procedure in s210(5) to apply to all life insurance policies
- AFCA upholds ‘militant activities’ exclusion
- FCA confirms AFCA not required to comply with rules of evidence
- FCA considers ‘constructive rejection’ of claim
- NSWCA confirms close judicial scrutiny of insurers’ reasons
- Note from the Editor - June 2021
- Sustainability in Disability Insurance – An update…
- Parliamentary Committee rejects Industry’s submissions to offer rehab
- Product Design and Distribution Obligations Bill update
- TPD: Stage 1 in the post-Jones era
- What's happening here and now? February 2019
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Publications
- Personal Injury Commission – Key Rule Changes
- The ‘Scheme Modernisation’ Changes to Victoria’s Workers Comensation Laws - will they have the desired impact?