Roy Ellis dies

19 November 2014

Roy Ellis, a pioneer in the establishment of underwriting agencies in Australia, died in Sydney yesterday after a long illness…

Sale strengthens Sportscover’s role at Lloyd’s

18 November 2014

Melbourne-based Sportscover has agreed to sell control of its Lloyd’s managing general agency, Syndicate 3334, to Bermudian company Hamilton Insurance…

Arch buys Resource Underwriting

11 November 2014

Arch Insurance Europe has acquired 100% of underwriting agency Resource Underwriting Pacific…

Steadfast launches direct insurance channel

05 November 2014

Listed broker Steadfast is entering the direct personal lines market with a new line of retail insurance products for sale through brokers…

Pagano, Cook leave as Zurich restructures

30 October 2014

High-profile senior managers at Zurich Financial Services have chosen to take redundancy packages under a restructure announced by the company yesterday that will see up to 45 other…

Humphreys moves to Steadfast

29 October 2014

Lloyd’s Australia MD Adrian Humphreys has resigned to join Steadfast as GM Business Development…

Comparison website, unauthorised foreign insurers for north Queensland

23 October 2014

The Federal Government will establish a comparison website for home and contents insurance in north Queensland and allow unauthorised foreign insurers to operate in the market…

IAG announces future of CGU, Lumley and WFI brands

13 October 2014

IAG has announced a major repositioning of its brands, with its intermediated business to fall under the CGU banner, Lumley to be established as an underwriting agencies…

Zurich makes it two in a row, other winners announced

15 September 2014

Zurich Australia has won the National Insurance Brokers Association general insurer of the year award for the second consecutive year…

Sportscover confirms Lloyd’s sale talk with Hamilton

11 September 2014

Sportscover and Bermuda-based property and casualty insurer Hamilton Insurance have announced they are in discussions over the sale of Sportscover’s Lloyd’s syndicate…

Steadfast bids for Calliden

27 August 2014

Broker group Steadfast has announced plans to buy listed insurer Calliden…

Suncorp arm sets up Steadfast brokerage

26 August 2014

Suncorp-owned authorised representative distributor Resilium is launching a broking arm, Resilium Insurance Broking…

IAG names commercial leadership team

25 August 2014

IAG has announced a new commercial insurance leadership team following its Wesfarmers acquisition…

Gallagher rebrands SRS, Australis agencies

14 August 2014

Arthur J Gallagher has announced a new single brand for its two Australian underwriting agencies…

Assetinsure sale to Ironshore called off

30 June 2014

The acquisition of Assetinsure by US-based insurer Ironshore has been called off by mutual agreement of the parties…

New Zealand Commerce Commission approves IAG’s Lumley takeover

30 April 2014

IAG will be allowed to acquire Wesfarmers Insurance New Zealand assets following a decision by New Zealand’s competition regulator…

Austbrokers creates new distribution super-role

22 April 2014

Austbrokers Holdings has brought together its broker and intermediary distribution management functions in a restructure announced this afternoon…

Feely returns as Zurich revamps management team

11 April 2014

Zurich Australia CEO Daniel Fogarty has announced a major revamp of his senior management team…

Wesfarmers sells broking businesses to Gallaghers

07 April 2014

Global broker Arthur J Gallagher has bought the broking and premium funding assets of Wesfarmers for $1.01 billion…

Charles Pratten jailed

04 April 2014

The NSW Supreme Court has jailed Rural & General Insurance founder Timothy Charles Pratten to three years and six months on charges of obtaining a financial advantage by deception…