30 May 2016
The Queensland Government has refused to confirm reports that two Gold Coast buildings have been found to contain non-compliant flammable cladding, which has been blamed for high-rise apartment fires in Melbourne and across the world…
30 May 2016
New Zealand capital Wellington has been subject to continuous earthquakes for the past three years, according to Earthquake Commission CEO Ian Simpson…
23 May 2016
The combined net profit for insurers and reinsurers in the year to March 31 fell by a massive 41.7% to $2.2 billion, pulled down in part by a sharp decline in investment income, according to the latest figures from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority…
23 May 2016
IAG and Suncorp have teamed up with James Cook University to help make North Queensland strata residences more cyclone-resilient – and cheaper to insure…
23 May 2016
The Victorian Government has no plans to reinstate funding to the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council, which is funded by governments and insurers to drive vehicle theft reform…
23 May 2016
A Melbourne UberX driver has won an appeal against a conviction for operating a commercial passenger vehicle without a licence…
23 May 2016
New Zealand’s Earthquake Commission expects to start making payments for increased liquefaction vulnerability cases next month as it looks to resolve 8000 outstanding land claims from the Canterbury earthquakes…
23 May 2016
An RACQ report has revealed the scale of home and contents underinsurance in Queensland…
23 May 2016
Insurers keen to reach out more effectively to customers should consider using data analytics, according to marketing applications company Teradata…
23 May 2016
The insurance industry is the fourth most trusted in Australia, according to Deloitte’s annual Privacy Index…
23 May 2016
Almost 13,000 Canterbury property owners have lodged damage claims following the magnitude- 5.7 Valentine’s Day earthquake this year, according to the latest Earthquake Commission figures…
16 May 2016
General insurers and reinsurers made an overall net profit of $2.42 billion last year, according to annual company-level statistics from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority…
16 May 2016
The Australian non-life insurance sector has a stable outlook despite challenging market conditions and limited investment opportunities, according to Standard & Poor’s…
16 May 2016
Cities will be more vulnerable to flash floods as climate change intensifies storms, creating narrower and more concentrated downpours, according to an Australian study…
16 May 2016
A New Zealand man will be sentenced next month after being found guilty of trying to extort $NZ5.5 million from IAG…
16 May 2016
QBE and Budget Direct have won Canstar’s national award for outstanding value in car insurance for the second year in a row…
16 May 2016
More than 10 million tourists a year are expected to visit Australia by 2025, bringing opportunity for businesses but also a new world of risk, according to Aon…
09 May 2016
A bizarre fundraising stunt with a global television audience was being planned by the US-based couple who emptied the broker trust account of Perth authorised representative company Winley Insurance…
09 May 2016
A CSIRO report on the Christmas Day bushfires in Victoria identifies “extensive surface litter” and domestic fuels as the main contributors to loss or damage of homes…
09 May 2016
The Financial Ombudsman Service is investigating why disputes related to general insurance grew 21% in the first quarter of this year…