{"id":14444,"date":"2012-02-29T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T23:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:34:57","slug":"treatment-of-mental-illness-underwriting-and-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2012\/02\/29\/treatment-of-mental-illness-underwriting-and-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment of Mental Illness &#8211; Underwriting and Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/polls\/treatment-of-mental-illness-underwriting-and-claims\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1228                 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/vote-now.jpg\" alt=\"Vote Now!\" width=\"108\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our latest poll is based on a recent\u00a0finding that\u00a025% of people who have experienced mental illness will not\u00a0tell their insurer.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when community attitudes towards\u00a0mental illness appear to be maturing, we are interested\u00a0to know how well you\u00a0believe your preferred insurance providers are currently dealing with mental illness at underwriting and claim time:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Are you generally satisfied with how your preferred insurers manage underwriting and claims processes for Australians where mental illness is a factor?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The finding that 25% of people who have experienced mental illness will not inform their insurer is taken from a survey on the recently-launched Mental Health and Insurance website service (see our story: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2012\/02\/28\/new-initiative-assisting-mentally-ill-deal-with-insurance\/\" target=\"_self\">New Initiative Assisting Mentally Ill Deal With Insurance<\/a>).\u00a0 This new service aims to ensure that fair and equitable access to appropriate information is given to\u00a0those with a history of mental illness when\u00a0dealing with insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>In your experience, do you think Australians with mental illness are given enough information and afforded appropriate empathy\u00a0when dealing with insurers? Are they able to\u00a0properly engage with life companies on insurance applications and claims?\u00a0 Or do you feel there is more that can be done to\u00a0enhance existing processes and communications for the benefit of both the insured and the insurer in this sensitive area?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/polls\/treatment-of-mental-illness-underwriting-and-claims\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1228                 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/vote-now.jpg\" alt=\"Vote Now!\" width=\"108\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest poll is based on a recent\u00a0finding that\u00a025% of people who have experienced mental illness will not\u00a0tell their insurer. At a time when community attitudes towards\u00a0mental illness appear to be maturing, we are interested\u00a0to know how well you\u00a0believe your preferred insurance providers are currently dealing with mental illness at underwriting and claim time:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8294,49,230],"tags":[230],"class_list":{"0":"post-14444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-claims","7":"category-polls","8":"category-underwriting","9":"tag-underwriting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}