{"id":8850,"date":"2010-12-10T18:27:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T07:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:13:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:13:33","slug":"blue-gum-and-aip-to-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/12\/10\/blue-gum-and-aip-to-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-GUM and AIP to Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group insurance providers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blue-gum.com.au\/content\/cms\/About+Us\/134\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Group Underwriters &amp; Managers<\/a> (Blue-GUM) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianincomeprotection.capital-life.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australian Income Protection<\/a> (AIP) are set to merge their Australian operations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Blue-GUM has managed the group risk insurance business for a number of Australian insurers, including Zurich and PrefSure.\u00a0 AIP, established in 2003, provides disability insurance solutions to industry funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Effective immediately, Blue-GUM&#8217;s <strong>Les Jones<\/strong> will assume the role of General Manager for the two companies.\u00a0 <strong>Ted Lovelee<\/strong>, CEO of AIP, will remain with the company until the completion of the merger and integration, which is expected to take some months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group insurance providers Blue Group Underwriters &amp; Managers (Blue-GUM) and Australian Income Protection (AIP) are set to merge their Australian operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","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=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}