24 February 2020
Okay, so the stage is set for a bushfires royal commission, one that Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he "thought very deeply" about before deciding to make good on his words and go ahead with it...
17 February 2020
Not that many years ago cyber risk was viewed as no more than just a mid-tier peril, not something that would give business executives too much to worry about...
10 February 2020
The decision by Insurance Council of Australia CEO Rob Whelan to step aside after nearly 10 years in the role presents the organisation’s board with some interesting possibilities...
03 February 2020
"Spring blazes promise a summer from hell", warned the headline on the cover of December’s Insurance News magazine...
16 December 2019
As part of its annual General Insurance Industry Review, KPMG outlined 10 emerging trends for Australian insurance companies. Here’s our summary of the findings...
09 December 2019
Victoria is set to become the latest state to begin a workers’ compensation review as the nation continues to grapple with a mish-mash of models, different levels of private and public participation and questions over their performance...
02 December 2019
We’ve all been there. The home and contents renewal notice drops into your inbox and the premium has gone through the roof...
25 November 2019
Australia remains acutely exposed to cyber attack, and a string of measures – including consideration of a reinsurance pool – are required to shore up defences, risk experts say...
18 November 2019
Like many others before it, the latest report into what ails the building industry delivered little in the way of new insights into a shambolic state of affairs...
11 November 2019
AM Best’s latest market report, an examination of the London insurance market, has uncovered a “blurring” of the once-rigid divisions between the roles of brokers, insurers and reinsurers...
04 November 2019
Parametric insurance is growing fast, and it’s likely to keep doing so as climate change continues to bite...
28 October 2019
In the quarter-century that the threat of global warming has been hanging over general insurance in Australia, the debate has become fragmented and absurdly complex...
21 October 2019
Insurance Council of Australia President Richard Enthoven’s “state of the industry” speech at the National Insurance Brokers Association Convention on the Gold Coast last week was brutally honest on the trials heading the industry’s way. But it also contained plenty of hope, pride – and new information...
14 October 2019
It’s routinely flagged as one of the top business threats across the globe, but many Australian SMEs think they’ve got cyber risk covered. The trouble is they almost certainly haven’t...
07 October 2019
The UK Financial Conduct Authority interim report into home and motor insurance pricing pulls no punches...
30 September 2019
How much longer can Australia drag its feet over the need for investment in mitigation? Or to put it more bluntly, when will our myopic political leaders accept that spending more on flood levees, sea walls, stronger buildings and the like holds the key to insurance affordability?
23 September 2019
Like Dickens’ Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come showing the future to Scrooge, insurers are being warned by EY about what could happen to them if they don’t embrace change...
16 September 2019
Australia’s biggest insurers have flagged the importance of urgent action on climate change as out-of-season bushfires rip through Queensland and NSW...
09 September 2019
Reinsurance rates are rising after the high level of catastrophe losses in the past two years, but the trend may not bring the same comfort as in times past as the industry faces plenty of changes and challenges...
02 September 2019
When insurers decline to offer cover for a certain risk in a certain location the reaction from affected residents, and the politicians and media claiming to represent them, is never positive...