Local

• Winds of change: Suncorp data reveals shift in storm hotspots
• Truckies steering towards safety as major crash toll drops
• Mental strain ‘hits harder’ for regional workers
• Good faith finding in Hollard case ‘a warning to industry’

Corporate

• IAG makes fresh pledges in push to seal RAC deal
• IAG to make public interest case in quest for RAC deal
• Shark Tank star to ‘build $200m brokerage’
• Johns Lyng unit seeks OK to buy fellow strata manager

Regulatory & Government

• Advice group cops $1.3m ‘sting’ over cyber failings
• Cyclone pool claims top $1.6b
• Hazards Commission backs uni research into quake fires, landslips
• Call for submissions as state eyes impairment rating reform

Life Insurance

• Advice association wants special levy ‘set to zero’
• Code watchdog eyes claims handling failures
• Acenda picks new commercial chief
• Retirement trend drives advice demand: Swiss Re

The Professional

• INsight podcast: Hollard’s good faith fine and what it means
• ANZIIF names New Zealand awards contenders
• Last chance to sign up for free webinar on ‘fixing communication’
• NIBA Convention sells out

Insurtech

• EV quote requests climb as battery cars ‘increasingly attractive’
• Humanoid robots ‘pose injury, liability threat’
• AI ‘collapses cost and time’ of comms migration
• Insurtech NZ welcomes Federato

International

• Late-season Isaias crosses Florida coastline
• ‘No shortage’ of growth options despite challenging environment
• BI claim costs surge as recovery times blow out
• ‘Tip of the iceberg’: UK uncovers $2.5b of claim fraud

Analysis

• Why are customers paying for help to secure a fair insurance claim?
• AI is giving insurers time back. What they do with it matters
• Data centre race leaves frameworks behind
• Australia's low-altitude economy is ready for take-off. Are we?