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Regulatory & Government

Dollar disclosure extended – again

27 March 2007

Insurers will be given more time to comply with new product disclosure requirements, extending the original period to three years…

Former director charged

27 March 2007

ASIC has laid insurance fraud charges relating to more than $5 million against former EBS Holdings Director Timothy John McKenzie…

Zurich in the clear

20 March 2007

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has handed Zurich Australian Insurance Limited its report on the reinsurance contract Zurich bought in September 2000…

ASIC releases guide to undertakings

20 March 2007

A new guide to enforceable undertakings has been prepared by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to clear ambiguities over the breach remedy…

Broker gets $10,000 fine

20 March 2007

Victorian insurance broker Kalman Gradman, trading under the name Gradman Insurance, and later Icon Insurance Agencies, has been sentenced to 21 months’ jail, fully suspended…

Former Zurich executive disqualified

13 March 2007

APRA has disqualified a former senior Zurich Australia director as it continues to punish managers who were involved in financial reinsurance deals…

Labor attacked for plan to trim ASIC budget

06 March 2007

It must be an election year. The Federal Government is attacking the Labor Party for advocating a $130 million cut in the Australian Securities and Investments…

Insurance broker convicted

06 March 2007

A suburban Melbourne insurance broker has been sentenced in the Melbourne County Court to 12 months jail, suspended for two years, after pleading guilty to four charges…

Former Zurich CEO appeals disqualification

27 February 2007

Former Zurich Australia CEO John Butler could be forced out of the insurance industry after APRA found him responsible for two suspect reinsurance transactions in 2000…

APRA disqualifies former Zurich executive

20 February 2007

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has disqualified former Zurich Re Group Reinsurance Officer Robert Stevenson from being or acting as a director or senior manager…

Draft Insurance Contracts Act reforms unveiled

13 February 2007

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce has released a draft reform package reflecting recommendations from the review of the Insurance Contracts Act…

ASIC bars Victorian broker

13 February 2007

ASIC has permanently barred Victorian insurance broker Robert Wilson from providing financial services…

APRA disqualifies actuary

13 February 2007

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has disqualified William Szuch from working as an appointed actuary after finding he failed to apply actuarial standards…

Twin regulators concede double burden

06 February 2007

Australia’s “twin peaks” financial regulation system has been criticised many times since its formation in 1998 for its possible duplication of effort…

ASIC freezes Westpoint-linked assets

06 February 2007

ASIC has obtained extension orders from the Federal Court in Perth to appoint receivers to the assets of several company directors and companies associated with the Westpoint group…

Former Zurich executive disqualified

30 January 2007

APRA has disqualified former Zurich Australia executive Florian Salzgeber from being or acting as a director or senior manager of a general insurer or authorised non-operating…

Broker banned

30 January 2007

Former responsible officer and director of NSW-based Lederman Insurance Brokers Marion Woodhouse has been permanently banned from providing financial services by ASIC…