26 July 2024
Australian insurers and California’s Department of Insurance will work together on common challenges such as disaster resilience and climate risks under a partnership agreement...
26 July 2024
Pillar Brokerage director Will Laundy has been named this year’s National Insurance Brokers Association broker of the year for SA/NT...
26 July 2024
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has told Insurance Manufacturers of Australia to reimburse a claimant whose car was stolen while parked at a friend’s house...
26 July 2024
Vero won the Gold Mansfield prize for claims excellence for a fifth straight year at an awards ceremony in Sydney last night...
25 July 2024
A review of more than 800 buildings in Victoria has found “substandard” documentation and “widespread misapplication” of regulations contributed to the use of non-compliant cladding materials in apartment blocks...
25 July 2024
An Insurance News technology seminar will unpick the criticism that the insurance industry has been slower and more reluctant than its peers to adopt innovative solutions and system change...
25 July 2024
Lloyd’s Australia has won a travel cover dispute after its investigator was unable to substantiate a policyholder’s claim that medical costs were incurred when his daughters fell ill...
25 July 2024
Customer advocacy groups have scolded insurers over their efforts to address the “ongoing affordability crisis”, telling today’s flood inquiry hearing in Townsville that profits are being prioritised over consumers...
24 July 2024
Australian property premium rates declined for the first time in more than seven years in the second quarter, easing 4%, according to Marsh's latest commercial index...
24 July 2024
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has named Kevin Bates as country head for Australia and New Zealand, effective from November 4...
24 July 2024
Far North Queensland community groups and councils outlined concerns with insurers’ responses to Ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper at today’s flood inquiry hearing in Cairns...
24 July 2024
Massive disruption caused by the CrowdStrike outage and the implications for insurers are key discussion topics on the latest edition of the Insurance News podcast...
23 July 2024
Allianz has told a Senate inquiry into the impact of climate risk on premiums that a flood reinsurance pool is the best way to make flood cover affordable for the highest-risk households...
23 July 2024
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has accepted 12 recommendations made following an independent review of 30 of its determinations...
23 July 2024
Global broker WTW has appointed Steven Torresan as head of mergers and acquisitions in its financial and executive risks business for Asia-Pacific and Africa...
23 July 2024
A car owner who sought to increase his insurance payout from $78,000 to $200,000 has lost a claims dispute...
19 July 2024
National Insurance Brokers owner Abbie Wilson has been named this year’s broker of the year for Victoria/Tasmania...
19 July 2024
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group’s LM Re has set up a dedicated Australian unit to oversee its portfolio and appointed Aon’s Mark De La Mare to lead the underwriting team based in Sydney...
19 July 2024
Agile Underwriting Services says Matthew Rowan has joined as group risk and compliance officer...
19 July 2024
The Victorian Building Authority has fined Aycon Constructions and its nominee director Seyit Ayranci $250,000 after the business was found to have carried out building work with falsified insurance certificates...