The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has ruled out demotion in job status and seniority as being valid factors in TPD claims....

New MetLife/SwissRe white paper spotlights implications of changes to Total and Permanent Disability definitions....

Less than half of Aussies have heard of TPD insurance being offered through super funds, according to Slater and Gordon....

New research confirms that the way income protection and TPD claims are handled are crucial to long-term outcomes....

Maurice Blackburn principal, Peter Koutsoukis, has defended the role of lawyers in dealing with group insurance claims and pointed the finger at insurers’ claims handling...

Super fund members should look to their fund first on insurance claims rather than going straight to lawyers....

Lawyers have been blamed for many of the problems currently impacting TPD insurance but the roundtable found they might be a symptom of more deeply-rooted problems. ...

Many superannuation industry commentators believe that products such as income protection insurance provides a better and more flexible answer than TPD....

Total and Permanent Disablement insurance is only one product option available to superannuation funds and there are question marks about whether it is the product option...

The problem with total and permanent disablement is that there is not a common and agreed definition being applied....

Part of the problem with TPD insurance appears to have been automatic acceptance limits which were too competitive and too generous. Part two of a Super Review TPD roundt...