Insurance taxes retain world record
05 August 2003
The Victorian Government’s announcement of its decision to do nothing about fire service funding reform came on the same day as a report by consultants…
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Is the purple band a solution to the public liability crisis?
05 August 2003
A Northern Territory agricultural show will go ahead despite unaffordable public liability premiums – thanks to a quirky solution that might just work…
Sunrise Exchange celebrates
05 August 2003
It’s the end of the bad old days for the insurance industry’s intermediary channel as the last broker moved across to the Sunrise Exchange platform…
Rural & General: ASIC gets undertakings
05 August 2003
ASIC has obtained undertakings from Sydney-based Rural & General Insurance Broking, and Rural & General International Insurance in relation to allegedly misleading content…
Good news can be bad news
29 July 2003
Insurers are returning to profit, but getting back into the black is a double-edged sword, says Insurance Council Executive Director Alan Mason…
CGU mistake may cost $40 million
29 July 2003
Insurance Australia Group may lose a $40 million contract with the Victorian WorkCover Authority after an audit found irregularities in subsidiary company…
Insurance terms ‘misleading’
29 July 2003
Some traditional terms used by the insurance industry are “at best, euphemistic, and at worst downright misleading”, says QC Wayne Martin…
CGU holds off One.tel defence claims
29 July 2003
Three directors and officers of failed telco One.tel will have to fund their own defence after CGU’s refusal to immediately pay out on their D&O policies was upheld…
Adler: ‘I’m not like Skase’
29 July 2003
Former FAI MD and HIH director Rodney Adler has joined his old HIH colleague Ray Williams in telling all…
Insurers must explain, says Hawker
29 July 2003
IAG head Michael Hawker wants the insurance industry to explain to consumers how massive premium hikes are “directly linked to the cost of claims”…
NSW FSL solution draws near
29 July 2003
NSW is blazing ahead with a program to sort out the alternatives for fire brigade funding…
The most common crashes
29 July 2003
For those of you dealing in vehicle repair work and anyone else interested in the minutiae of road accidents, debt collection company Prushka – it handles third-party claims…
APRA faces big lawsuit loss, says R&G
29 July 2003
Rural & General Insurance Brokers, which is suing APRA for defamation in the ACT Supreme Court, says the regulator…
Unease, anger over baby case
22 July 2003
Lawyers and medical insurers are studying the ramifications of last Wednesday’s High Court decision to award compensation to the Queensland parents of a healthy child…
Opportunistic car thieves stretch police
22 July 2003
New Zealand’s police force is under-resourced, under-funded and over-stressed, says Insurance Council of New Zealand CEO Chris Ryan…
Lawsuit against APRA moves to ACT
22 July 2003
Sydney-based broker Rural & General Insurance Brokers has taken its defamation case against APRA to the ACT Supreme Court…
PWC: compliance doesn’t equal good reputation
22 July 2003
Financial services executives around the world, including Australia, believe upholding their company’s reputation is more important than complying with government rules…
New book probes FAI’s beginnings
22 July 2003
First it was The Australian columnist Mark Westfield with a book claiming to give the inside story of the HIH collapse…
ARIMA pushes self-insurance case
22 July 2003
Major companies around Australia are coming out firmly in support of a single national workers’ compensation framework, with some claiming competitors allowed to use…
A hard day’s work for insurance staff
22 July 2003
Working 9-to-5 is long enough day for many people, and NRMA Insurance workers in Sydney couldn’t agree more…