10 November 2025
If insurers want less regulation they should improve their behaviour, a consumer lobby group has said after an industry report showed oversight costs up to $3.5 billion a year...
10 November 2025
The Victorian Managed Insurance Authority has turned around three years of losses to report a $118 million operating surplus for 2024-25...
10 November 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has confirmed it has not been publishing determinations for more than a month...
10 November 2025
The Insurance Council of Australia has warned homeowners hit by recent storms in southeast Queensland to beware opportunistic “disaster chasers”...
10 November 2025
About 55% of the properties in New Zealand’s earthquake-prone building system will be removed under proposed reforms...
10 November 2025
A car owner who alleged his insurer did not properly notify him of a 31% drop in his vehicle’s agreed value has lost his bid for a payout increase...
10 November 2025
The Insurance Council of Australia will host more consultation sessions in southeast Queensland for people affected by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred...
03 November 2025
IAG warns it is “increasingly probable” global warming will exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, bringing more extreme natural hazards to Australia...
03 November 2025
Recent severe weather in Queensland has prompted 21,850 claims, the Insurance Council of Australia says...
03 November 2025
MGA executive chairman and founder John George says sharing of insurance commissions between strata managers and brokers does not need banning, but a percentage limit should be enforced to prevent “gouging”...
03 November 2025
A business breached its duty of care to a truck driver by failing a provide a safe system of work, the NSW Supreme Court has found...
03 November 2025
A claimant has been told to co-operate with an insurer seeking earnings information, to show his bid for crash injury benefits is valid...
03 November 2025
A property valuation group says it has found underinsurance totalling more than $5 billion since launching a building cover assessment tool a year ago...
27 October 2025
Insurers have received more than 3600 claims after strong wind and large hail swept through the Brisbane area last night – and a revamped Bureau of Meteorology website has been criticised for failing to properly track the storm...
27 October 2025
Commercial pricing is poised to moderate further after rates fell for the seventh straight quarter...
27 October 2025
The company supports reform but is concerned about shifting costs to consumers and proposes an alternative approach whereby a fixed fee, paid by insurers and adjusted to the consumer price index, replaces commission-based payments...
27 October 2025
Body corporates “collectively gained ground” on insurance affordability as strata premiums rose a “modest” 2.8% to $981 per lot in the year to June, CHU says...
27 October 2025
The Association of Insurance Building and Engineering Consultants has launched a program for members to provide pro-bono services for vulnerable people...
27 October 2025
Homes in flood zones are collectively worth $42.2 billion less than they would be without the risk, the Climate Council and property data group PropTrack have found...
27 October 2025
The Insurance Council of Australia will host more consultation sessions in the north Queensland town of Ingham to help customers with flood claims from earlier this year...