{"id":8040,"date":"2010-10-13T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:12:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:12:24","slug":"comminsure-product-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/10\/13\/comminsure-product-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"CommInsure Product Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CommInsure has announced the launch of a range of enhancements to its products and services, developed in direct response to market research and feedback from advisers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The enhancements include a partnership between CommInsure and Colonial First State&#8217;s FirstChoice and FirstWrap platforms allowing customers to pay for their Total Care Plan Super insurance premiums through rolled over superannuation monies from selected funds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Browne<\/strong>, CommInsure&#8217;s General Manager, Retail Advice, said: &#8220;&#8230; Rollovers into our Total Care Plan Super product are automatic and the advantage is that the premiums don&#8217;t impact the client&#8217;s immediate cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>Other product enhancements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction of\u00a0a new renewal reward, which offers customers who roll over super funds to Total Care Plan Super a reward of up to 15% upon renewal, applied to the following\u00a0year&#8217;s premium<\/li>\n<li>Increased TPD cover limit to $5 million<\/li>\n<li>Improved Prostate Cancer definition, including payment of\u00a0a full trauma benefit on diagnosis of prostate cancer at stage TNM T1c<\/li>\n<li>Removal of the Post Natal Depression exclusion under income protection<\/li>\n<li>CommInsure&#8217;s Income Care Super is now available within its Total Care Plan Super (previously, income protection in super was only possible under a self-managed superannuation fund owned ordinary policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Along with the product improvements, CommInsure\u00a0is\u00a0introducing a number of service enhancements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More flexibility when quoting on and applying for, stand alone products, designed to\u00a0save advisers time and effort<\/li>\n<li>40 enhancements to CommInsure&#8217;s WriteAway underwriting rules engine<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of <em>RealTime Health<\/em>, a a new online resource for advisers and their clients, with hundreds of patient and carer stories on a range of common medical conditions<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of <em>Life Facts Profiler<\/em>, a service that pools statistics for disease, traumatic events and life expectancy relevant to the client&#8217;s circumstances. This service is intended to support an adviser&#8217;s recommendations showing clients their susceptibility to risk, based on the collective data of others with similar profiles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These enhancements will be launched to the market at a series of national events throughout October. \u00a0Advisers can learn more about the enhancements by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/adviser.comminsure.com.au\/Login.aspx?cotilogin=false&amp;failed=&amp;error=&amp;ReturnUrl=\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CommInsure Adviser Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CommInsure has announced the launch of a range of enhancements to its products and services, developed in direct response to market research and feedback from advisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}