18 March 2019
Growing revenues and healthy margins mean broking businesses are prospering, but they are increasingly worried about technology and preparing for the future, a new Macquarie Bank report says…
18 March 2019
Consumer advocates have called for a wider review of the role played by New Zealand’s government-owned Earthquake Commission after IAG announced it is taking a more conservative approach to home and contents cover in Wellington…
18 March 2019
A king tide could cause further flooding in Townsville tomorrow as the north Queensland city struggles to recover from last month’s devastating rainfall…
18 March 2019
Cyclone Trevor is forecast to bring heavy rainfall and potential flash flooding across Far North Queensland over the next few days…
18 March 2019
A climate research group’s suggestion that many homes may become too risky to insure because of climate change has been criticised by the Insurance Council of Australia as “scaremongering”…
18 March 2019
Yet another government agency’s report on insurance in northern Australia comes under the Insurance News microscope, with the devastating Townsville floods demonstrating one inescapable truth – the north is far more prone to natural catastrophes than the southern regions, and that’s why property cover costs more…
18 March 2019
The frequency of hot days in recent winters and springs has exceeded historical levels, according to the Actuaries Institute’s Climate Index…
18 March 2019
Queensland’s decision to rejoin the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council has been welcomed by CEO Geoff Hughes and industry stakeholders…
18 March 2019
Motor vehicle theft numbers in Queensland were 48% higher last year than four years ago…
11 March 2019
Lloyd’s says it is “open for business” in Australia, despite market concerns that securing capacity is becoming a challenge…
11 March 2019
Insurance intermediaries placed $11.5 billion of premium in the December half, new Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data shows…
11 March 2019
Bushfires in southeast Victoria over the past week have destroyed at least 31 houses and damaged another 70 structures…
11 March 2019
A building industry reform group has written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging a royal commission to restore public trust in Australia’s “broken’ construction sector…
11 March 2019
Insurers are pulling back from exclusion-free professional indemnity cover for building surveyors and fire engineers, sparking fears the construction industry could “grind to a halt”…
11 March 2019
The Federal Government has been urged to overhaul its disaster resilience strategy as climate change causes a rise in “concurrent extreme weather events and events that follow in closer succession”…
11 March 2019
More than 800 data breaches were reported last year following introduction of the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme…
11 March 2019
The insurance industry may see further consolidation this year, law firm Clyde & Co says…
04 March 2019
General insurers and reinsurers achieved a combined 6.2% rise in underwriting profit to $3.5 billion last year, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data shows…
04 March 2019
New bushfire dangers emerged today in parts of southeast Victoria…
04 March 2019
Australia can expect a drier-than-average autumn, worsening a drought that is already devastating farmers and country areas…