08 November 2021
Suncorp and IAG have raised their outlooks for financial-year natural peril costs after claims were elevated by the SA and Victorian storms that have been declared a catastrophe by the Insurance Council of Australia...
08 November 2021
Melbourne-based broker McLardy McShane Group has expanded again with the acquisition of a 30% stake in Perth-based brokerage Apollo Risk Services, its most significant investment so far...
08 November 2021
International broking group Howden has announced two key appointments as part of an expansion into New Zealand...
08 November 2021
Willis Towers Watson has appointed Michael Brown as Head of New Zealand following a period in the position on an interim basis...
08 November 2021
QBE has promoted Amanda Hughes to the role of Group Executive, People and Culture, effective next month...
08 November 2021
Queensland focused Sure Insurance has outlined premium discounts of up to 30% to recognise household resilience measures as the high-risk cyclone season approaches...
08 November 2021
SLE Worldwide Australia CEO Brad French will leave the underwriting agency at the end of year, with a new head to be announced “in due course”...
08 November 2021
Willis Towers Watson Australia is backing the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which seeks that a First Nations voice to parliament be enshrined in the constitution...
01 November 2021
IAG-owned NRMA Insurance announced today it has launched in WA and SA as part of a national expansion of the motor, home and business general insurance brand...
01 November 2021
Suncorp has estimated natural peril costs for the financial year so far at $382-492 million, with the estimate made before wild weather hit SA and Victoria late last week...
01 November 2021
PSC Insurance Group said at today’s annual general meeting that the business performed well in the first quarter of this financial year, putting it on course to achieve its previously stated earnings targets...
01 November 2021
Austbrokers network member Finsura Financial Services Group has acquired Hornsby-based RJ Vaughan & Monaghan, which was founded in Sydney in 1923...
01 November 2021
360 Underwriting Solutions has expanded in New Zealand with the acquisition of the Rosser Underwriting agency, building on its purchase earlier this year of TLC Insurance...
01 November 2021
Travel insurer Cover-More has appointed a new Group CIO and named Todd Nelson to the role of MD Australia as it prepares for opportunities with the reopening of borders and the winding back of pandemic-related restrictions...
01 November 2021
New Zealand’s Vero is dropping a long-standing industry practice of comparing male and female customers after consulting with its LGBTIQ+ employee resource group Amplify...
01 November 2021
New Zealand’s Tower has increased its stake in National Pacific Insurance (NPI), which is headquartered in Samoa, to 93%...
01 November 2021
NRMA and Full Stop Foundation have together distributed $750,000 to frontline agencies supporting people experiencing domestic violence...
25 October 2021
Zurich has tapped Goldman Sachs and PwC to assist with a potential sale of its Australian general insurance division, excluding the travel business, according to a newspaper report last week...
25 October 2021
Steadfast CEO Robert Kelly says the business has made a “tremendous” start to the current financial year, with estimates showing pre-tax earnings in the first quarter are ahead from the year-earlier corresponding period...
25 October 2021
IAG says the business has its sights set on the future, having made the necessary adjustments and actions to correct the lapses that plunged the insurance group into a full-year loss of $427 million...