Domestic family violence

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Hollard's commitment to you

We are committed to providing support to our customers affected by family violence.

We will achieve this through training and support of our employees and distributors, engaging you with sensitivity, dignity, respect and compassion and protecting your information and privacy. We will also refer you to specialist support services that can help you with family violence.

Your safety is paramount to us

Whenever family violence is identified or suspected, our priority is the safety of the person affected by family violence and the protection of their family. We will strive for the early recognition of family violence.

How we will deliver on our commitment

We will ensure our employees and distributors have training so that they are aware of our family violence procedures and can identify and deal appropriately and sensitively with customers affected by family violence.

We will protect private and confidential information of customers affected by family violence through ensuring we have processes in place to secure this information.

We will minimise the number of times that our customers need to tell us that they have been affected by family violence.

Our claims handling processes will be considerate and sensitive should our customers need to make a claim under their insurance policy with us, and they are affected by family violence.

We will adopt a different process and consider the risk if we are aware that a customer’s debt involves a situation of family violence.

You may be entitled to support if you are suffering from financial hardship. If you tell us, or we identify that you are experiencing financial hardship, we will give you details about how to apply for financial hardship and, if appropriate, contact details for the National Debt Hepline: 1800 007 007.

We will inform our customers, employees, distributors and service suppliers about information and support processes available to assist customers experiencing family violence.

We will refer our customers, employees and distributors to specialist services.

We will support our employees and distributors who are affected by family violence or where they have assisted a customer affected by family violence.

What is family violence?

In Australian law, ‘family violence’ is defined as: 

“violent, threatening or other behaviour by a person that coerces or controls a member of the person’s family… or causes the family member to be fearful.” (Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), section 4AB).

In most states and territories, the law recognises economic abuse as a form of family violence.

Family violence includes emotional abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, financial or economic abuse and damage to property.