Open, ahm agree car and home cover partnership
28 January 2021
Hollard-backed insurtech Open will administer two new general insurance products for health insurer ahm...
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Victoria combats bushfire with cutting edge drone technology
28 January 2021
Drones featuring high-definition thermal imaging and live-streaming cameras have been added to Victoria’s bushfire defence arsenal...
Cyber rates rising as risks increase: Marsh
27 January 2021
Insurers have reduced cyber capacity limits on single risks while premium rises are set to continue after gains of 15-20% in Australia last year as demand for cover accelerates, Marsh says...
SME premiums almost flat, BizCover index shows
27 January 2021
SME insurance specialist BizCover says premiums of business policies sold through its online platform have hardly increased, contrary to what is being reported in the broader market...
Cover-More unscathed as ASIC, RBNZ investigate cyber breach
27 January 2021
Travel insurer Cover-More says it was not directly impacted by a cyber attack on software provided by Accellion...
IAG ethics adviser Mostyn among industry's Australia Day honours
27 January 2021
IAG Ethics Committee member and former group executive Sam Mostyn has been recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours...
BI claims uncertainty ramps up insurer earnings pressure: Fitch
25 January 2021
A possible surge in COVID-19 business interruption claims adds to existing pressures on Australian general insurers’ earnings, Fitch warns...
Claimant who blamed bat for power surge loses insurance complaint
25 January 2021
A Suncorp contents insurance policyholder who believed a bat was responsible for a power surge that subsequently damaged his laptop and televisions has failed in his bid to have the insurer accept his claim...
Disaster-hit regions 'might never recover' without insurance
25 January 2021
Natural disaster mitigation is vital to keep insurance affordable, because without it regional communities may never recover, Suncorp says as it releases a new report today...
January hailstorm losses rise to nearly $1.9 billion
25 January 2021
Catastrophe data company Perils has finalised its overall loss estimate of several hailstorms that hit the eastern states in January last year, raising the value of claims accepted by insurers to $1.89 billion...
Nexus joins Insurance Advisernet
22 January 2021
Nexus Risk Services will join Insurance Advisernet under an arrangement agreed by the two Austbroker equity partners...
Businesses forced to close as 'insurance crisis' worsens
22 January 2021
A growing number of businesses are being forced to shutter because they can’t get public liability insurance which is mandatory for many of the industries they operate in, according to Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell...
Insurer pays for failing to provide 'like-for-like' farm cover
22 January 2021
Agricultural insurer Achmea must indemnify a claim after fire destroyed 1380 bales of hay, despite the items not being listed among insured contents in a farm policy sold to a client...
Industry wants PI insurance requirements 'applied prospectively'
22 January 2021
The Insurance Council of Australia has voiced concerns over the NSW Government’s draft regulations for the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 that was passed in parliament last June...
NIBA presses ASIC for retail advice reform
21 January 2021
The National Insurance Brokers Association has proposed meeting with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, insurers and consumer representatives to discuss changes that could help retail clients access advice...
'Needs TLC': fire claim upheld despite concern over property condition
21 January 2021
An investment property owner has won a claim payment dispute after fire damaged an old house that was advertised as needing “tender loving care” when it was purchased...
Reinsurance renewal rate increases fall short of expectations
21 January 2021
Prices at the January 1 treaty renewal season did not increase sharply as initially predicted as the global reinsurance capital pool closed out last year 3% higher than 2019, according to reports...
M&A rates set to rise as appetite for deals hots up
21 January 2021
Rates for mergers and acquisitions-related risk products are set to increase after corporate appetite for business expansion was dented last year because of the pandemic, Gallagher says in a report...
AUB sells Altius in health and rehab exit
20 January 2021
AUB Group has agreed to sell its holding in Altius to the Riverside Company for net cash proceeds of about $57 million, completing its exit from health and rehabilitation services...
Coverforce completes management buyout of private equity investor
20 January 2021
Independent brokerage Coverforce today confirmed that management shareholders have acquired investment firm Pemba Capital Partners’ 49% ownership in the business...