Local

• Start with claims and work backwards, industry leaders told
• Home resilience ratings put to test in Queensland
• Judge cuts supersized damages claim after Maccas slip
• Mayor upbeat on Bundaberg levee talks

Corporate

• Charles Taylor selects new national MD
• Willis names regional captives leader
• Resilience latent defects cover secures NSW nod
• QBE completes sale of trade credit business

Regulatory & Government

• Regulators seek feedback on financial accountability reform
• New APRA deputy chair begins five-year term
• State takes high ground in battle to save cattle
• NZ watchdog boss leaves as conduct probe continues

Life Insurance

• CBA class action payout modest but fair, judge says
• Partners Group to buy Fidelity Assurance
• Code watchdog warns insurer over customer notice failings
• AFCA backs insurer on hardship help, policy cancellation

The Professional

• Training program to help home repairers ‘meet expectations’
• Insurance Advisernet reveals award winners
• CBN crowns award winners
• Munich Re Specialty appoints operations head

Insurtech

• Industry’s major players share AI tactics
• Overhaul aims to fill underused sandbox
• System ‘for underwriters, built by underwriters’ to launch
• Aon tool reveals data centre risk exposure

International

• ‘New normal’ as smaller perils break $US100b barrier
• Cat losses climb to levels ‘once thought implausible’
• AI turbocharging old cyber threats, Swiss Re warns
• Global anti-fraud council steps up crime fight

Analysis

• Insurers are using AI – but can they underwrite it?
• Wide nets and low bars: draft code draws more feedback
• Top 20 AR networks report examines key issues
• Foreign fires cast a pall over Australian summer