Road safety strategy is failing: campaigners
27 March 2017
More funding is needed to combat road trauma, with an average of 25 deaths and 700 serious injuries occurring in Australia each week, the Australasian College of Road Safety says…
27 March 2017
More funding is needed to combat road trauma, with an average of 25 deaths and 700 serious injuries occurring in Australia each week, the Australasian College of Road Safety says…
27 March 2017
Articulated trucks carry most of Australia’s road freight despite accounting for only 5% of all registered freight vehicles, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures…
27 March 2017
An article in last week’s bulletin said CGU is offering a 25% home insurance discount via a partnership with online mortgage marketplace HashChing. The rebate is provided by HashChing…
20 March 2017
Insurers are increasingly partnering with fintechs to add value for customers and buy time to invest in their own innovations, according to an Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance expert…
20 March 2017
Australian companies facing tougher privacy laws have been warned employee actions account for two-thirds of cyber breaches worldwide…
20 March 2017
Thousands of proposed new homes under consideration in Sydney’s Bayside West Precincts urban renewal project are vulnerable to flooding, according to the NSW State Emergency Service…
20 March 2017
The summer’s NSW bushfire conditions were the worst on record, as temperature records also tumbled…
20 March 2017
Reinsurance claims from the Kaikoura earthquake have reached $NZ694 million, according to provisional estimates by insurance companies, Statistics New Zealand says…
20 March 2017
International modelling and warm sea temperatures suggest an El Nino system will develop this year, according to the Bureau of Meteorology…
13 March 2017
The Climate Council says Australia’s increasingly hot summers pose a serious threat to critical infrastructure, and has again called for the urgent uptake of renewable energy…
13 March 2017
The pricing slide in property lines may be bottoming out as rate reductions have slowed in the last three quarters, Aon Australia says in its latest market update report…
13 March 2017
Do low-income earners who move to cities and towns in cyclone zones understand the risks? And if they do, what level of protection can they afford?…
13 March 2017
Con artists posing as insurance company assessors are targeting vulnerable Sydney residents affected by last month’s hailstorms…
13 March 2017
A risk expert has called for increased collaboration between the insurance industry and a range of parties to counter Australia’s increasing vulnerability to cyber risks…
13 March 2017
IAG New Zealand says cases of contamination as a result of methamphetamine being produced in private homes are rising fast, and confusion over cover is causing problems for landlords…
13 March 2017
Landslips damaged seven homes in New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula during a one-in-100-year storm last week…
13 March 2017
The Climate Institute will close on June 30 after failing to secure enough funding to continue operations…
06 March 2017
Australian insurance intermediaries invoiced $9.7 billion in premium during the six months to December 31, according to the latest statistics from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority…
06 March 2017
The insurance bill for the hailstorm that pummelled parts of Sydney and the Illawarra on February 18 has passed $350 million, according to latest figures from IAG and Suncorp…
06 March 2017
The likelihood of an El Nino climate event, often associated with greater bushfire risk, this year has risen to 50%, the Bureau of Meteorology says…