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Charles Taylor appoints new regional head

28 February 2022

Mark Thompson has been appointed Regional Head of Australia and New Zealand operations at claims management firm Charles Taylor to nurture significant growth opportunities in Australasia and serve an expanding network of customers...

Achmea, GrainGrowers join forces to support agriculture

28 February 2022

Specialist farm insurer Achmea Australia and industry body GrainGrowers have agreed a strategic collaboration to provide a platform for the grains industry to share knowledge, risk mitigation strategies and best practices...

CGU turns CGI in film initiative with Muppet director

21 February 2022

CGU Insurance has collaborated with The Jim Henson Company on a new production called Tall Poppy, which encourages Australians to embrace ambition and question the cultural stigma of tall poppy syndrome...

PwC Australia appoints new insurance leader

21 February 2022

Yoshiro Makita has been appointed to the role of Insurance Leader for Australia within PwC Australia’s Financial Services business after the departure of Bernadette Howlett at the end of last year...

Chubb names acting distribution head

21 February 2022

Chubb Head of Global Broker Unit Australia & New Zealand John French has been appointed acting Head of Distribution, according to reports...

Gallagher Bassett partners with Special Olympics

21 February 2022

Gallagher Bassett has partnered with Special Olympics, a decades-long global movement aimed at ending discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities and fostering acceptance via sport and education...

Insurers chip away at large gender pay gap

14 February 2022

Financial services remains stubbornly among industries with the largest divide in earnings between men and women, although insurers have achieved a significant narrowing of the gender pay gap over recent years and almost half of all promotions in Australia went to women last year...

Arteva Funding appoints senior manager

14 February 2022

Nichole Hastie has been appointed to the newly created role of Senior Manager – Key Accounts at Arteva Funding, effective February 28...

Financial services luminary joins Zurich Australia boards

07 February 2022

Geoff Summerhayes, who just completed a five-year term as board member at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and was formerly Suncorp Life CEO and MLC’s head of Superannuation and Investment, has been appointed to Zurich Australia’s boards...

Law firm names new insurance partner

07 February 2022

Sydney-based Jacqueline Haski has joined Moray & Agnew as a Partner in its insurance practice, bringing her paralegal team Amy Reyes and Karen Jackson...