Insurers' ongoing profitability challenges are discussed in depth on the latest edition of the Insurance News podcast.

As insuranceNEWS.com.au has reported, Finity's latest Optima report reveals that profitabillity has gone "from bad to worse", with return on equity slipping to a sorry 2% last financial year.

This week’s edition of INsight, hosted by Insurance News Managing Director Andrew Silcox, features the observations of Insurance News Publisher Terry McMullan, Managing Editor John Deex and Deputy Editor Wendy Pugh.

Also discussed on the podcast are the latest business interruption test case appeals, 16cm hailstones, and rumours surounding the possible sale of Zurich's Australian general insurance business.

You can find a new episode of INsight published here each week.