{"id":46848,"date":"2019-10-21T08:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=46848"},"modified":"2019-10-22T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T03:15:01","slug":"mlc-life-insurance-wins-top-health-wellness-accolade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2019\/10\/21\/mlc-life-insurance-wins-top-health-wellness-accolade\/","title":{"rendered":"MLC Life Insurance Wins Top Health &amp; Wellness Accolade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLC Life Insurance was the big winner at last week&#8217;s Health &amp; Wellness Life Insurance Awards.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Now in its second year, these Awards were created by well-known research firm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pflresearch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan For Life<\/a>, to recognise those life company programs which are &#8220;&#8230;designed to impact beneficially on the health and wellness of customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a release announcing the winners, PFL noted that its overall Health &amp; Wellness Life Insurance Award, won this year by MLC Life Insurance, is based on a holistic review covering 45 underlying factors of health &amp; wellness programs offered by the product providers.<\/p>\n<p>Individual award winners, and the basis for each award, included:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Devices &amp; Health Tracking Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Based on how life companies measure and monitor Health &amp; Wellness activities undertaken by customers, including eleven factors covering physical activities and health tracking. <strong>Winner: AIA Australia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Discounts &amp; Healthy Living Rewards Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Considers how Life companies reward customers that meet healthy living conditions, including nine factors covering premium discounts and other discounts for entertainment, leisure and shopping. <strong>Winner: AIA Australia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Physical &amp; Mental Health Support Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Based around how life companies support customer\u2019s physical and mental health needs, including five factors covering early prevention support and access to ongoing professional help and information. <strong>Winner: MLC Life Insurance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ongoing Medically-Tested Health Discounts Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Considers the extent to which life companies use actual medical tests to determine if premium discounts are appropriate, including two factors covering the extent of health\/medical questions and ongoing health\/medical checks for additional discounts. <strong>Winner: TAL Life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Rehabilitation &amp; Claims Support Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Based on how insurers support customer\u2019s healthy return to work, including five factors covering rehabilitation, counselling and recovery support. <strong>Winner: TAL Life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Outcomes Experience Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Based on actual measured outcomes arising from Health &amp; Wellness initiatives as determined through data collection showing improved retention, reduced lapsation and evidence for improved customer health. <strong>Winner: MLC Life Insurance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to a number of other health &amp; wellness awards, PFL also announced the winners of its inaugural Longevity Cover Excellence Awards, where the top Award was won by Challenger, while NobleOak was the overall winner in PFL&#8217;s 6th Direct Life Insurance Excellence Awards.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46851\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/191021-PFL-Health-and-Wellness-Awards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46851\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/191021-PFL-Health-and-Wellness-Awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/191021-PFL-Health-and-Wellness-Awards.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/191021-PFL-Health-and-Wellness-Awards-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/191021-PFL-Health-and-Wellness-Awards-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/191021-PFL-Health-and-Wellness-Awards-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel discussion on health and wellness issues formed part of the second annual Plan For Life Health &amp; Wellness Life Insurance Excellence Awards, held in Sydney&#8217;s Museum of Contemporary Art last week&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLC Life Insurance was the big winner at last week&#8217;s Health &amp; Wellness Life Insurance Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-conferences-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848","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=46848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}