{"id":39499,"date":"2018-01-11T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=39499"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:33:58","slug":"tal-appoints-specialist-medical-advice-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/01\/11\/tal-appoints-specialist-medical-advice-board\/","title":{"rendered":"TAL Appoints Specialist Medical Advice Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAL has appointed a new medical Specialist Advisory Board to provide the insurer with guidance in complex claims cases and to assist it in annual reviews of its medical definitions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33274\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/SallyPhillips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33274\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/SallyPhillips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TAL, GM, Health Services, Sally Phillips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The independent board will cover the areas of cardiology, respiratory conditions, neurology, oncology, endocrinology, psychiatry, neuropsychology and infectious diseases and \u201c\u2026will share updates on medical advancements and clinical protocols to ensure TAL\u2019s approach to product, underwriting and claims reflects the latest medical best practice,\u201d said TAL Group CEO and Managing Director, <strong>Brett Clark<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role of the Specialist Advisory Board is to ensure TAL stays at the forefront of medical thinking for the benefit of our customers and partners,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h6>\u201cThe role of the Specialist Advisory Board is to ensure TAL stays at the forefront of medical thinking&#8230;&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that health and life are intrinsically linked and the Specialist Advisory Board\u2019s independent, objective medical expertise gives us confidence that we are providing our customers and partners with the best possible support and <a href=\"https:\/\/momcanvas.com\/how-to-be-the-caregiver-of-your-kids-and-your-elderly-parents-at-the-same-time\/\">learning how to help the aging<\/a>,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>TAL General Manager, Health Services, <strong>Dr Sally Phillips<\/strong>, said members of the Specialist Advisory Board would include experts in medical fields most relevant to life insurance and customer health and would be a key element of the insurer\u2019s medical due diligence and governance model.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips also said the board would enable TAL to be involved in new research which would boost its ability to understand, manage and support the mental, physical and financial health of its policy holders.<\/p>\n<p>The new board will work with TAL\u2019s in-house Health Services team and will be complementary to a specialist advice panel that TAL refers to for day-to-day medical opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAL has appointed a new medical Specialist Advisory Board to provide the insurer with guidance in complex claims cases and to assist it in annual reviews of its medical definitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8294,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-claims","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39499","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=39499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}