Submission to the Financial Services Council on the Life Insurance Code of Practice Version 2.0

Publication date:
28 September 2021
Resource type:
Submission

This submission focuses on issues relating to consumers who have experienced mental health conditions and reiterates the comments provided by PIAC directly to the FSC during consumer consultative group meetings over the past four years. This submission also builds on PIAC’s comments in relation to the first iteration of the Life Insurance Code of Practice in 2016, and our comments on an earlier draft of the revised Life Insurance Code of Practice in 2019.

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