{"id":239,"date":"2009-03-16T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=239"},"modified":"2019-03-12T05:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:52:21","slug":"poll-results-support-for-standardised-trauma-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2009\/03\/16\/poll-results-support-for-standardised-trauma-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Results &#8211; Support for Standardised Trauma Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"polls-15\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<div class=\"pollHeader\"><strong>Do you support the concept of standardising key definitions in trauma insurance products?<\/strong><\/div><div id=\"polls-15-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Yes <small>(63%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 63%\" title=\"Yes (63% | 37 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>No <small>(32%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 32%\" title=\"No (32% | 19 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Not sure <small>(5%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 5%\" title=\"Not sure (5% | 3 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_15_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"e90524ba26\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Advisers have indicated support for the concept of standardising key trauma definitions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At time of publishing, 59% of poll respondents said they were in favour of standardising key trauma definitions, while 35% were against (5% are undecided).<\/p>\n<p>These results to date are not overwhelmingly in favour of standardised definitions, or\u00a0the concept.\u00a0 This suggests that more debate is needed on this subject, and that perhaps opinion may well remain divided.\u00a0 However, given the majority of feedback is in favour of this concept it does suggest that it\u00a0may well be\u00a0time to have the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to this\u00a0poll topic, 2006 AFA Adviser of the Year, <strong>Troy Edmondson<\/strong>, commented that a standardisation of key trauma definitions would encourage insurance companies to raise the level of their support services across administration,\u00a0underwriting and claims.\u00a0 The rationale for this point of view is that insurance providers will seek areas other than price in order to differentiate their offerings to advisers and their clients:<\/p>\n<h6>&#8220;An insurer who\u00a0excels in these areas will outperform an insurer providing lower premiums but sub-standard services.<\/h6>\n<p>Mr Edmondson also suggests that only the top four definitions should be considered for standardising definitions, which would still allow insurers to personalise their product around other definitions.<\/p>\n<p>Further comments on this topic will follow in a special bulletin later this week, which will summarise a number of the key issues stemming from this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theriskstore.com.au\/conference.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risk store Mastering the Pipeline Conference<\/a> on the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n<p>If you have yet to add your opinion to the question of standardised trauma definitions, the poll will remain open until next week.\u00a0 And we will also soon provide access to all previous poll results&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisers have indicated support for the concept of standardising key trauma definitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","category-polls","category-services","headers-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}