The Professional
12 December 2016
Next year’s Australian Vehicle Crime Conference will be “a must” for insurers, investigators and claims managers wanting to learn what is fuelling theft and pushing up claims costs, according to organisers…
12 December 2016
Allianz has appointed Mark Pittman as GM Government Services in the workers’ compensation division…
05 December 2016
Angus Kench, Assistant VP Casualty Claims Asia-Pacific with Liberty International Underwriters, has been elected President of the Australian Insurance Law Association…
05 December 2016
Swiss Re has confirmed the appointment of former Insurance Council of Australia executive Vicki Mullen as Client Manager for Global Partnerships…
05 December 2016
Zurich Financial Services Australia has teamed up with the Raise Foundation to provide youth mentoring services…
05 December 2016
Former Wallabies player Benn Robinson has joined SLE Worldwide, the same insurer that handled his career-ending injury claim earlier this year…
05 December 2016
Blueprint Insurance director Anthony Latouf has won Perth broker Oracle Group’s authorised representative of the year award…
05 December 2016
The annual Adroit Insurance Group charity golf day raised a record $100,000 for projects in the Geelong region of Victoria…
28 November 2016
QBE Group COO Colin Fagen has been appointed President of the Insurance Council of Australia, with a two-year term to start in January…
28 November 2016
The Underwriting Agencies Council has received eight nominations for five board vacancies…
28 November 2016
QBE has confirmed the departure of Portfolio Manager Negotiated Lines Tony Isgro…
28 November 2016
The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance and the Pan-Asia Risk and Insurance Management Association have created a new designation to “demonstrate the professionalism and legitimacy” of Asia-Pacific risk professionals…
28 November 2016
Australian Professional Indemnity Group members in NSW, Victoria, SA and WA can now book for the group’s Christmas parties and final seminars of the year…
28 November 2016
Andrea Gluyas has become the New Zealand Society of Actuaries’ first female President in its nearly 60-year history…
28 November 2016
Lloyd’s has won a prestigious Asia-Pacific Communication Award for a campaign promoting its City Risk Index…
28 November 2016
Insurance & Care NSW’s Larissa Auditore has been named executive assistant of the year by CEO Magazine…
28 November 2016
The Financial Ombudsman Service has appointed former Citibank chief risk officer Johanna Turner as Industry Director…
21 November 2016
Insurance and financial services remains the worst sector in terms of the gender pay gap, with women receiving 33.5% less in total remuneration than their male counterparts, the latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency scorecard shows…
21 November 2016
Insurance Council of Australia CEO Rob Whelan will serve another two years as a membership executive with the Global Federation of Insurance Associations…
21 November 2016
Andrew Beaton will leave his role as MD of Dual New Zealand at the end of February, with Australian GM Leo Abbruzzo to manage both countries…