AILA celebrates its 20th year
11 November 2003
The Australian Insurance Law Association celebrates its 20th anniversary tomorrow with a special dinner in Sydney…
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Brokers pursue FSG issue
04 November 2003
Ross Cameron, the new Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, has undertaken to take a look at the recently altered Financial Services Guide regulations…
IAG set to step back into builders’ warranty
04 November 2003
IAG is getting ready to step back into the turgid waters of builders’ warranty insurance in NSW, with Group Executive Intermediary Business Bob Wagstaffe last week praising…
Other asbestos disease causes smoked out
04 November 2003
Some Australian insurers are trying to take some of the financial sting they’ve experienced as a result of the asbestos claims crisis by suing tobacco companies…
Mixed blessings for MacKenzie
04 November 2003
Victoria’s statutory classes chief, James MacKenzie, has had a mixed bag of results to reveal over the past week…
Helping find the right broker
04 November 2003
Deloitte has launched a new tender management service to help organisations select an appropriate insurance broker to meet their specific risk management needs…
Bid to tackle $84 million car theft industry
04 November 2003
Western Australia has joined in the national effort to combat the car theft industry by introducing new laws to control the re-birthing of written-off vehicles…
FSRA – are there any advantages?
28 October 2003
The insurance industry is beginning to express real doubts that the FSRA will bring sufficient advantages to consumers…
Advisers worry about cancellation powers
28 October 2003
It isn’t only general insurers who are worried about some aspects of the AFSL system…
Brokers – tomorrow’s financial planners?
28 October 2003
General insurance brokers are already doing about 80% of the work they’d need to be doing to offer additional services like financial planning, says leading commentator Tom Collins…
Look beyond ‘general’, says Squire
28 October 2003
David Squire, NIBA board member and the National Regulatory Policy Manager of the Wealth Management Division of the National Australia Bank, says brokers should look…
Hopes and worries in workers’ comp report
28 October 2003
The Productivity Commission has released its eagerly awaited interim report on a national framework for Australia’s splintered workers’ compensation and occupational health…
Life-saving crisis highlights reform flaws
28 October 2003
Insurance Council Executive Director Alan Mason is closer than most in the industry to the public liability furore involving surf lifesaving clubs…
QBE will appeal travel insurance verdict
30 September 2003
QBE will appeal against a court-imposed $5000 fine after losing a case in the Federal Magistrates’ Court brought by a woman with a terminal cancer condition…
Foreign insurers: a difficult problem to address
30 September 2003
Now that the Federal Government has announced a review into the use of unauthorised foreign insurers (UFIs), don’t believe the problem is going to automatically go away…
WorkCover’s downward spiral
30 September 2003
While the Federal Government’s ability to introduce standardised workers’ compensation laws across Australia is limited, it does have some powerful cards to play if it wants to…
Statistics will help boost industry image
30 September 2003
ICA might develop a new insurance statistical organisation next year because Insurance Statistics Australia doesn’t cover enough insurers…
Vero NZ steers clear of genetics
30 September 2003
Vero, New Zealand’s second largest insurer, says it won’t cover policyholders for personal injury or damage to property directly or indirectly caused by genetically modified
Builders’ limits raised
30 September 2003
Was it the gradual easing of the capacity crisis or the threat of an ACCC investigation that prompted Royal & SunAlliance to loosen its iron grip on builders' warranty insurance…?
Government makes first tiny moves on HIH report
23 September 2003
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has broken a five-month silence over the recommendations of HIH Royal Commissioner Justice Neville Owen, agreeing to back most of them…