Mansfield Awards winners set to be revealed this week
12 September 2022
The Mansfield Awards recognising claims excellence will reveal this year’s winners on Thursday at The Establishment Ballroom in Sydney...
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Next stop Adelaide: UAC expo heads to SA capital city
12 September 2022
The Underwriting Agencies Council will hold its Adelaide Underwriting Expo on Thursday, having held similar ones earlier this year in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and Wagga Wagga, NSW...
Agile Aviation announces new appointment
12 September 2022
Agile’s Aviation underwriting agency has announced aviation broker David Tait will join its team...
Premium funder names new BDM
12 September 2022
Arteva Funding has announced Katrina Dawes as a new Business Development Manager from September 19...
Law firm seeks Property, Energy & Infrastructure competition ideas
05 September 2022
Wotton + Kearney has launched a new Turning Point Competition and is seeking ideas from insurance industry experts to lead “next generation thinking” in Property, Energy & Infrastructure...
Arteva announces new appointments
05 September 2022
Premium funder Arteva Funding has named Tanya Williams as its new Business Development Manager in Queensland and Bronwyn Blain as Head of People and Culture...
QBE extends partnership with Sydney Swans
05 September 2022
QBE has renewed its partnership with AFL club Sydney Swans to continue as its primary shirt sponsor for five more years...
ANZIIF and ICNZ open scholarship submissions
05 September 2022
The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance and the Insurance Council of New Zealand Te Kahui Inihua o Aotearoa have announced submissions are open for the 2022 ICNZ and ANZIIF Scholarship...
ANZIIF crowns Suncorp large insurer of the year
29 August 2022
More than 750 professionals attended The Star in Sydney last week to see the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance crown Suncorp the 2022 Large General Insurance Company of the Year...
CHU adds to claims leadership team
29 August 2022
Steadfast subsidiary CHU has appointed Alison Bell and Vincent Norton-Scott as the newest members of its claims leadership team...
Insurance gender pay gap narrows
29 August 2022
The difference between women’s and men’s average weekly full-time earnings in Financial and Insurance Services has narrowed to 19%, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency says, from 24.1% a year earlier...
HDI Global appoints Queensland market manager
29 August 2022
HDI Global has appointed Erika Gutierrez as Market Manager, Queensland, with the role involving strengthening and supporting long-term relationships with brokers and clients...
Former AFCA lead ombudsman wins Lifetime Achievement Award
29 August 2022
Industry veteran and former Australian Financial Complaints Authority Lead Ombudsman for Insurance, John Price, has received the 2022 Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals Australia Lifetime Achievement Award...
McLardy McShane names award winners as conference returns in style
22 August 2022
More than 300 attended the McLardy McShane conference on the Gold Coast after a two-year hiatus due to covid...
MKS awarded Resilium Practice of the Year
22 August 2022
MKS Insurance Services has been named Resilium Practice of the Year, with the presentation of the award made at a dinner last night...
Suncorp boosts parental leave entitlements
22 August 2022
Suncorp has increased paid parental leave entitlements by a month and says it will explore how it can support all employees regardless of gender and family structure...
Crawford adds two east coast adjusters
22 August 2022
Crawford & Company has appointed executive adjusters in Sydney and Brisbane to support large and complex liability and property claims...
Industry veteran Peter Marer to join consumer group board
22 August 2022
Australian Consumers Insurance Lobby says industry veteran Peter Marer will be joining its board...
Brooklyn Underwriting appoints new head
15 August 2022
Brooklyn Underwriting has announced Acting Head Scott Jerome will take over the role in a permanent capacity...
Aon outlines ways to ward off call centre turnover
15 August 2022
Insurers should give their call centre workers clear career pathways and rewards, a diversity of work and appropriate technology in order to reduce turnover rates, Aon says...