11 April 2016
Residents of bushfire-devastated Wye River and Separation Creek have been retrospectively rendered underinsured following the Victorian Government’s decision to upgrade the towns’ bushfire attack level to the highest level…
11 April 2016
Climate change and profitability are among the key challenges for insurers this year and beyond, according to actuaries Taylor Fry…
11 April 2016
Standard & Poor’s has maintained its insurance industry and country risk assessment for the mortgage insurance sector in Australia at “low”…
11 April 2016
New Zealand’s Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman received 985 complaints in the December-March period, and investigated 100…
11 April 2016
Most small and medium businesses in Australia believe the economy is either slowing or standing still, according to the March-quarter Sensis Business Index. Only 13% think it is growing…
04 April 2016
Melbourne’s tallest building and major tourist attraction the Eureka Tower has been found to feature combustible cladding…
04 April 2016
Driverless cars may dramatically reduce premiums and profits, but innovative insurers have three decades to adapt, according to a Moody’s report…
04 April 2016
The Melbourne-based Consumer Action Law Centre has started a campaign to help consumers seek refunds for dud add-on insurance policies and warranties…
04 April 2016
An “in principle” settlement has been reached between Endeavour Energy and plaintiffs who filed a Blue Mountains bushfire class action…
04 April 2016
Cyber breaches remain an underrated threat among councils, according to Aon’s Australian Local Government Risk Report…
04 April 2016
Five years after Cyclone Yasi ripped through North Queensland a small number of claimants are yet to receive insurance payouts…
04 April 2016
The Federal Government has cut funding for crop insurance grants by $9 million…
21 March 2016
Heavy-handed insurance investigators treat innocent consumers like criminals, according to a new report from the Financial Rights Legal Centre…
21 March 2016
Physically destructive cyber terrorism is a “real gap” in current insurance coverage, according to the head of Australia’s Reinsurance Pool Corporation…
21 March 2016
Temperatures in parts of Victoria and NSW hit record levels this month and modelling suggests the above-average warmth will extend into next month, according to the Bureau of Meteorology…
21 March 2016
Major general insurers will continue to dominate the Australian market over the next five years, but customer-connected entrants such as Google and Amazon may start to make inroads, according to a new report…
21 March 2016
Flood risk predictions could be carried out up to 1000 times faster using new techniques, according to researchers…
21 March 2016
Endeavour Energy has settled a class action led by IAG over a 2013 bushfire in the Blue Mountains…
21 March 2016
The Victorian Government has ruled out a merger between the Metropolitan Fire Brigade and the Country Fire Authority following a damning report…
21 March 2016
New Zealand’s Earthquake Commission is piloting a new claims-handling process following last month’s Christchurch quakes…