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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…

ABS reveals freight load figures

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…

Clarification:

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…

Insurers’ courtship of fintechs continues

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…

SES warns of flood risk in Sydney renewal plan

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…

Scammers pose as insurance assessors

13 March 2017

Con artists posing as insurance company assessors are targeting vulnerable Sydney residents affected by last month’s hailstorms…

Ice contamination worries NZ insurer

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…

Intermediaries place $9.7 billion in premium

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…

NSW hailstorm bill tops $350 million

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…

El Nino odds rise as ocean warms

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…