This is a proposal for a ‘Claims Made’ policy of insurance. This means that the policy covers you for any claims made against you and notified to the insurer during the policy period. The policy does not provide cover in relation to:
- acts, errors or omissions that occurred prior to the retroactive date (if one is specified) in the policy;
- any claim made, threatened or intimated against you prior to the commencement of the policy period;
- any claim or fact that might give rise to a claim, reported or which can be reported to an insurer under
- any insurance policy entered into before the commencement of the policy period;
- any claim or fact that might give rise to a claim, noted in this proposal or any previous proposal;
- any claim arising out of any fact you are aware of before the commencement of the policy period;
- any claim made against you after the expiry of the policy period.
However, the effect of Section 40(3) of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth) is that where you become aware, and notify us in writing as soon as is reasonably practicable after first becoming aware but within the policy period, of any facts which might give rise to a claim against you, any claim which does arise out of such facts shall be deemed to have been made during the policy period, notwithstanding that the claim was made against you after the expiry of the policy period.
Your Duty of Disclosure
Before you enter into a contract of general insurance with an insurer, you have a duty, under the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth), to disclose to the insurer every matter that you know, or could reasonably be expected to know, is relevant to the insurer’s decision whether to accept the risk of the insurance and, if so, on what terms.
You have the same duty to disclose those matters to the insurer before you renew, extend, vary or reinstate a contract of general insurance.
Your duty however does not require disclosure of matter:
- that diminishes the risk to be undertaken by the insurer;
- that is of common knowledge;
- that your insurer knows or, in the ordinary course of its business, ought to know;
- as to which compliance with your duty is waived by the insurer.
Non Disclosure
If you fail to comply with your duty of disclosure, the insurer may be entitled to reduce their liability under the contract in respect of a claim or may cancel the contract. If your non-disclosure is fraudulent, the insurer may also have the option of avoiding the contract from its beginning.
Privacy Policy
We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Protection) Act 2012 (Cth) or as amended, and its associated National Privacy Principles when we collect and handle your personal information. We collect personal information in order to provide our services. We also pass it to third parties involved in this process such as insurers and other service providers. If you do not provide the information we need we may not be able to offer you insurance or deal with claims under your insurance.
When you give us personal or sensitive information about other individuals, we rely on you to have made or make them aware that you will or may provide their information to us, the purposes we use it for, the types of third parties that we disclose it to and how they can access it. If it is sensitive information we rely on you to have obtained their consent on these matters. If you have not done either of these things, you must tell us before you provide the relevant information.