High Court reinforces key principles of disclosure in insurance
Applicants must fully disclose all relevant information during underwriting, even if it was divulged in past applications.
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Customer sentiment towards insurers improves despite claims frustrations
King Price came out top in DataEQ’s latest Insurance Sentiment Index, which analyses what consumers are saying about their insurers.
Life insurance industry stages a remarkable comeback
Life insurance companies have defied the odds, bouncing back with impressive results in 2022, KPMG’s South African Insurance Industry Survey 2023 finds.
Liberty: cancer displaces Covid as leading cause of claims
Statistics indicate a rise in income protection claims resulting from diagnoses for mental and behavioural disorders.
Court must rule on couple’s time of death to ensure correct beneficiary payment
High Court weighs witnesses’ testimony to decide whether a husband did, in fact, predecease his wife and beneficiary.
‘Raids don’t mean all the insurers are guilty’
Conducting raids on the premises of the eight life insurers under investigation by the Competition Commission for alleged collusion and price-fixing did not mean that all of them were guilty, Fin24 reports Commissioner […]
Information from ‘an industry player’ prompted Competition Commission’s investigation into life insurers
Information received “from one of the players in the industry” prompted the Competition Commission to launch its investigation into alleged price fixing by some of the country’s major life insurers. This was all […]
Tribunal recommends investigation of pension fund, its administrator and trustees
The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) has set aside decisions by both Liberty, the pension fund administrator, and the Pension Funds Adjudicator (PFA), and recommended that the FSCA should consider taking regulatory action against […]
Covid waves see Liberty’s claim pay-outs jump 60%
Claims paid out by Liberty under its flagship Lifestyle Protector policy shot up by 59.6% last year, to R10.12 billion, largely because of the cumulative effects of the Beta and Delta waves of […]
