23 October 2014
The Federal Government will establish a comparison website for home and contents insurance in north Queensland and allow unauthorised foreign insurers to operate in the market…
13 October 2014
IAG has announced a major repositioning of its brands, with its intermediated business to fall under the CGU banner, Lumley to be established as an underwriting agencies…
15 September 2014
Zurich Australia has won the National Insurance Brokers Association general insurer of the year award for the second consecutive year…
11 September 2014
Sportscover and Bermuda-based property and casualty insurer Hamilton Insurance have announced they are in discussions over the sale of Sportscover’s Lloyd’s syndicate…
27 August 2014
Broker group Steadfast has announced plans to buy listed insurer Calliden…
26 August 2014
Suncorp-owned authorised representative distributor Resilium is launching a broking arm, Resilium Insurance Broking…
25 August 2014
IAG has announced a new commercial insurance leadership team following its Wesfarmers acquisition…
14 August 2014
Arthur J Gallagher has announced a new single brand for its two Australian underwriting agencies…
30 June 2014
The acquisition of Assetinsure by US-based insurer Ironshore has been called off by mutual agreement of the parties…
30 April 2014
IAG will be allowed to acquire Wesfarmers Insurance New Zealand assets following a decision by New Zealand’s competition regulator…
22 April 2014
Austbrokers Holdings has brought together its broker and intermediary distribution management functions in a restructure announced this afternoon…
11 April 2014
Zurich Australia CEO Daniel Fogarty has announced a major revamp of his senior management team…
07 April 2014
Global broker Arthur J Gallagher has bought the broking and premium funding assets of Wesfarmers for $1.01 billion…
04 April 2014
The NSW Supreme Court has jailed Rural & General Insurance founder Timothy Charles Pratten to three years and six months on charges of obtaining a financial advantage by deception…
03 April 2014
Steadfast Group has acquired 70% of the share capital of NM Insurance, which owns underwriting agency Nautilus Marine…
26 March 2014
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose IAG’s acquisition of Wesfarmers’ underwriting business…
21 March 2014
Allianz Australia Chief GM Sales & Distribution Jonathan Poole has announced his plan to retire from the company at the end of the year…
28 February 2014
Technology company Ebix Australia has been refused entry to the Steadfast Convention beginning in Melbourne tomorrow after negotiations on a systems interface collapsed…
27 February 2014
Ace Australia and New Zealand CEO Giles Ward has been appointed to run a newly formed business region for the company, Eurasia & Africa…
05 February 2014
The owners of Sydney-based Assetinsure Holdings have entered into a binding agreement to sell the company to US-based Ironshore…