30 January 2017
The $NZ34 million sale of Suncorp’s New Zealand motor insurance business Autosure will help offset impacts from earthquake claims before the release of its half-year results next week…
30 January 2017
IAG has finalised catastrophe reinsurance protection for losses up to $7 billion this year, locking in cover similar to last year’s program…
30 January 2017
Broker and insurance technology group Ensurance is confident its new London-based underwriting agency will be the catalyst for success in the European market…
30 January 2017
Youi has been fined $NZ320,000 in the Auckland District Court for engaging in unscrupulous sales practices between July 2014 and February last year…
30 January 2017
Sydney-based law firm Wotton + Kearney has joined forces with major insurance law firms in Germany, the UK and the US to “meet the legal needs of the growing multinational insurance market”…
30 January 2017
Centrepoint Alliance has completed the sale of its premium funding business to Bank of Queensland for $20 million…
30 January 2017
JLT has acquired AssetVal, one of Australia’s largest specialist valuation practices…
30 January 2017
Troubled claims service provider Stream Group’s New Zealand subsidiary Symetri is selling its operating business and most of its assets to Gallagher Basset, in a deal worth at least $NZ7 million…
30 January 2017
Arthur J Gallagher has stepped up its WA presence with the acquisition of workplace consultancy RiskLink…
30 January 2017
Actor Alex Haddad plans to revive the HIH name with a new brokerage business, hoping customers recall the insurance company’s early success rather than its corporate failure…
30 January 2017
New Zealand’s CBL Corporation has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Securities and Financial Solutions Europe, France’s largest specialist provider of construction insurance…
30 January 2017
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance has unveiled a line of accident and health insurance products for New Zealand…
30 January 2017
Tokio Marine has acquired a 50% stake in Sydney-based online agency eSentry Underwriting as it looks to grow its business in Australia…
30 January 2017
IAG has appointed Helen Nugent and Duncan Boyle as independent non-executive directors…
30 January 2017
Perth insurance litigation firm Jarman McKenna will merge with national law firm Sparke Helmore Lawyers on March 1…
30 January 2017
Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia has announced the resignation of its Chief Commercial Officer Bridget Sakr, who is leaving “to pursue other opportunities” after 22 years with the business…
30 January 2017
12 December 2016
IAG plans to cut annual operating costs by about $250 million over the next three years as it simplifies operations…
12 December 2016
Cover-More’s plan to grow globally will receive a significant lift if it joins the Zurich family, the listed travel insurer says…
12 December 2016
QBE Group’s decision to parachute CFO Pat Regan into the role of CEO Australian and New Zealand Operations followed an ultimately fruitless external recruitment drive…