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All shoppers need to be wary of junk insurance

January 15, 2018

Car yards, banks and insurance companies — we don’t need a Royal Commission to remind us that some pretty dodgy things have gone on in these places, but there’s one...

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Joint submission: Options to reform the sale of add-on insurance and warranties in car yards

November 10, 2017

Our organisations strongly support ASIC’s proposal to mandate a delayed sales model for add-on insurance and warranties sold through car yards, and to improve supervision of these sales. We have held...

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Another day, another multi-million dollar junk insurance pay back

August 14, 2017

Consumer Action Law Centre says today’s announcement from ASIC that CommBank will refund $10 million to people who were mis-sold consumer credit insurance (CCI), after QBE agreed to pay back...

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Submission: General Insurance Code of Practice 2017 Review

May 3, 2017

The Code is an important piece of self-regulation, setting out the best practice expected of the industry. Recent inquiries and reviews have ventilated a number of persistent, systemic problems for...

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ACCC rejects weak effort by insurers to fix junk insurance

February 17, 2017

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has today rejected a cynical move by the insurance industry to keep selling junk insurance products....

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Submission: Applications for authorisation—A191556-A91557 Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Company Australia Pty Ltd & Ors

October 21, 2016

This submission focuses on the public benefit and detriment of the proposal for consumers. Any benefits to motor vehicle dealerships or insurers are private and not public in nature, and we do...

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Junk merchants fleecing millions from unknowing Australians

December 14, 2015

Unknowing Australians could be paying millions of dollars for junk insurance according to a new report from Consumer Action Law Centre....

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