24 September 2026
The drive to build more homes as a way to address housing affordability challenges could have drawbacks, Suncorp CEO Steve Johnston cautions, as he advocates for a long-term national resilience plan...
24 September 2026
Politicians, government officials and insurance industry leaders will next week depart for Washington DC, New York, Zurich and London to examine how a new set of risks is reshaping the market and driving policy challenges globally...
22 September 2026
The Federal Court has found AIG doesn’t need to contribute to Allianz claim payouts made after a building site gate fell on a traffic controller, causing physical and psychiatric injuries...
22 September 2026
Broker Aon says a new flood evaluation tool is potentially “transformational” in helping the industry address rising premiums linked to inundation risk...
21 September 2026
Trust in the insurance industry to handle personal information has fallen, and privacy complaints about insurers are increasing faster than the overall rate, Australian Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has told an insurance industry audience...
21 September 2026
The directors and officers market remains soft – as it has been for five years – but there are some signs this could change, the Australasian Professional Indemnity Group conference was told...
21 September 2026
Adica Insurance CEO and MD Dean Cullen has joined the Insurance Council of Australia board as a non-executive director...
18 September 2026
Brokers have rebutted criticism of commission disclosure practices, arguing that clients will not benefit from expanded obligations...
17 September 2026
More Australian entities are using discretionary risk mutuals, bypassing traditional insurance products to protect their assets, according to a report released today...
15 September 2026
Quality of Advice reviewer Michelle Levy has had her say on the National Insurance Brokers Association draft code, arguing that all commissions should be disclosed...
14 September 2026
More than $100 million in losses was prevented by the Insurance Crime Intelligence Network of Australia in its second year of operation, the ICA’s counter-fraud CEO Andrew Gill told the Sydney Claims Convention...
14 September 2026
The Australian insurance market remains profitable but there is a risk that market softness runs ahead of emerging claims experience, warns Hall & Wilcox in its Australian specialty insurance market outlook...
14 September 2026
A study of the January 2026 Victorian bushfires has found the individual characteristics of a property can affect its vulnerability...
14 September 2026
The professional indemnity market will remain subdued for the next year, with a projected softening of 5%, according to Taylor Fry...
14 September 2026
Coastal flooding is expected to damage 267,000 properties and two million of hectares across the nation this century, according to the Climate Council...
14 September 2026
Ahead of the storm season, NRMA Insurance has warned people to be on the lookout for "disaster chasers" who it says have scammed 1700 customers in the past five years...
11 September 2026
A "perfect storm" of factors has worsened the outlook for data breach-related class actions after a recent lull, lawyers told the Australasian Professional Indemnity Group conference...
10 September 2026
US authorities have charged the 87-year-old driver who allegedly ran a red light at an intersection in Nashville, killing Australian broking leader Tim Wedlock and injuring three others...
10 September 2026
Victoria’s next government must establish stronger information sharing arrangements between police, government and insurers to stem the explosion of property and vehicle theft, says the Insurance Council of Australia...
09 September 2026
Reinsurance trends are the main focus on the latest episode of the Insurance News podcast, as the industry wraps up its annual gathering in Monte Carlo...