28 August 2025
Steadfast is accelerating its global expansion with the acquisition of a majority stake in US specialty underwriting agency and wholesale brokerage Novum Underwriting Partners...
14 August 2025
McLardy McShane has unveiled a new-look leadership structure as CEO Don McLardy and director Mike McShane move into executive board roles...
24 July 2025
QBE Australia Pacific has made new arrangements for broker-distributed householders cover with Sure Insurance and its Castle Insurance business...
26 June 2025
Underwriting agency Blue Zebra has secured a new capacity arrangement for its home building and contents, landlord and SME package products...
25 June 2025
The insurance code governance committee has imposed a $30,000 penalty on AIG Australia for breaching obligations to tell customers their complaints had been delayed or that they had the right to take matters to the ombudsman...
12 June 2025
The competition regulator has approved Allianz Australia’s $642 million acquisition of RAA Insurance following a review of market impacts...
23 May 2025
Experienced insurance executives Nigel Fitzgerald and Grant Cairns will team up later this year to launch a digitally led “underwriting venture” that aims to “redefine how insurance is delivered”...
22 May 2025
AIG says its Australia CEO Grant Cairns has resigned “to pursue a different path in the industry”, with the insurer’s client and broker engagement head stepping up to lead the business...
22 May 2025
The competition regulator has cleared IAG’s proposed $855 million acquisition of the RACQ insurance business...
15 May 2025
IAG plans to buy the RAC Insurance business and enter a 20-year distribution agreement for home, motor and niche products, in a $1.35 billion deal...
08 May 2025
Lloyd’s chief of markets Patrick Tiernan has been selected as the next CEO of the London-based global insurance and reinsurance marketplace...
11 April 2025
The corporate regulator alleges Hollard Insurance breached its duty of utmost good faith in its “egregious” handling of a home and contents claim made by a couple from regional Victoria...
24 March 2025
Steadfast COO Nigel Fitzgerald will leave the business on July 1 to pursue a “personal business venture”, the listed insurance group announced today...
20 March 2025
Aon has appointed Kevan Johnston as Australia CEO following the promotion of Jennifer Richards to a regional role...
25 February 2025
The Insurance Council of Australia has today called for the creation of a $30.15 billion flood defence fund to tackle the nation’s “costliest natural disaster”...
31 January 2025
Network Insurance Group and Insurance House are to merge with Andrew Broughton as CEO of the combined business...
29 January 2025
A general insurer has been ordered to pay $100,000 for a significant code of practice breach related to failures in the handling of customer claims and complaints...
21 January 2025
NSW state insurer icare has appointed Geniere Aplin, most recently the head of EML Solutions, as its CEO...
09 January 2025
Lloyd’s says CEO John Neal is leaving this year to join Aon as global CEO of reinsurance and chairman of climate solutions...
20 December 2024
Allianz Australia has agreed to sell its Hunter Premium Funding business to private equity investor Pemba Capital Partners, as it aims to focus on its core insurance operations...