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1. Insurers busy after major storms hit Melbourne
   Melbourne insurance offices have been overloaded with calls from householders and businesses reporting damage to buildings and vehicles after a “supercell thunderstorm” hit Victoria…
   Local | 08 Mar 2010 12:50pm
2. Forget about rate rises: Aon
   The head of Australia’s largest insurance brokerage has refuted reports that premiums are hardening, instead depicting the coming two years as a buyers’ – not sellers’ – market…
   Local | 08 Mar 2010 12:50pm
3. Suncorp settles over ACT disaster
   Suncorp has dropped a class action against the ACT Government over the 2003 Black Saturday bushfires after settling for an undisclosed amount…
   Local | 08 Mar 2010 12:49pm
4. Floods threaten threaten towns
   Insurers are counting the cost of extensive flooding in southwest and southeast regions of Queensland through last week, and Premier Anna Bligh has called on them to…
   Local | 08 Mar 2010 12:48pm
5. Online revolution provides challenges
   Technology, commoditised insurance products and threats to one-on-one business relationships provided a thread of concern at a Melbourne breakfast seminar examining the state of…
   Local | 08 Mar 2010 12:48pm
6. Rate rises, investments boost Allianz Australia profit
   Allianz Australia grew pre-tax net profit to $484 million last year, up 60% on 2008…
   Corporate | 08 Mar 2010 12:47pm
7. Former AAMI boss takes seat on FOS board
   Former AAMI CEO Robert Belleville has been appointed as a director of the Financial Ombudsman Service, replacing former Insurance Council of Australia CEO Kerrie Kelly…
   Local | 08 Mar 2010 12:47pm
8. Broker lifts local profit, changes Aussie roles
   Trading profit for broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson's Australasian operation rose 9% to £20.9 million ($34.9 million) in the year to December 31 on the back of £87.5 million…
   Corporate | 08 Mar 2010 12:46pm
9. WorkSafe Victoria recovers financial footing
   Worksafe Victoria is on track to bypass the horrendous losses of 2008/09, lodging a $686 million net result after tax for the first six months of fiscal 2010…
   Corporate | 08 Mar 2010 12:45pm
10. Chile quake to rival LA for damages
    Insurance losses from the February 27 Chilean earthquake, which has killed nearly 1000 people and devastated the southern city of Concepcion, is poised to become the second most…
    International | 08 Mar 2010 12:23pm
11. ING tries to buy time as QBE prowls
    QBE Group is said to be casting an acquisitive eye on the commercial insurance operations of Dutch company ING, but the sense of urgency for a sale may be softened by a reported elasticity…
    International | 08 Mar 2010 12:22pm
12. Modest quarterly rise for Liberty Mutual
    American insurer Liberty Mutual has reported a 2% lift in net profit to $US456 million ($506.5 million) for the three months to December 31…
    International | 08 Mar 2010 12:17pm
13. Credit insurers must review practices: Coface
    The global financial crisis will force players in trade credit insurance to review their business models if they are to survive, according to leading trade credit insurer Coface…
    International | 08 Mar 2010 12:17pm
14. Berkshire underwriting profit falls
    US investment group Berkshire Hathaway has recorded a significant rise in total earned premiums from its insurance and reinsurance operations during 2009, but saw its underwriting profit plunge…
    International | 08 Mar 2010 12:15pm
15. Savage windstorm batters Europe
    Damage from winter storm Xynthia, which devastated parts of France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands last week, will cost insurers up to €3 billion ($4.5 billion), according to risk modeller…
    International | 08 Mar 2010 12:05pm
16. Hockey sticks it to insurance taxes
    Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has promised to put insurance tax reform on the Liberal Party’s political agenda should the Henry tax review fail to address the issue…
    Regulatory & Government | 08 Mar 2010 11:57am
17. Underwriting profitability returns
    The insurance industry has returned to underwriting profitability with annual underwriting profit of $3.8 billion, reversing a previous loss of $1.1 billion…
    Regulatory & Government | 08 Mar 2010 11:57am
18. Insurance representative cops 10-year ban
    Victorian insurance representative Terrence McDonald has copped a 10-year ban from the financial regulator for failing to comply with financial services laws…
    Regulatory & Government | 08 Mar 2010 11:56am
19. Westpoint investors group to get 70% back
    A new $13.5 million settlement for a group of 525 investors in the failed Westpoint group will see them recover an estimated 71 cents in the dollar…
    Regulatory & Government | 08 Mar 2010 11:55am
20. Skilled staff shortfall looms as major challenge
    A lack of training and under-staffing could give the insurance industry a big headache, according to a senior broker…
    The Professional | 08 Mar 2010 11:54am

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