08 April 2019
The Insurance Council of New Zealand has questioned whether the public expectation of an “open-ended” commitment from insurers and the Government to cover disaster losses is sustainable…
08 April 2019
New Zealand’s Earthquake Commission is seeking feedback on the possible development of an earthquake early warning system…
01 April 2019
Interest in insurance mergers and acquisitions in Australia and New Zealand has surged, a report from deal room technology company Ansarada shows…
01 April 2019
The insurance industry is “working around the clock” in three states as the impact of Australia’s catastrophe-ridden summer increases…
01 April 2019
IAG customers are among 189 residents who have been awarded compensation for damage suffered during the January 2014 Parkerville bushfire in the Perth Hills…
01 April 2019
The Builders Collective of Australia says Labor leader Bill Shorten has rejected its call for a royal commission on problems highlighted by apartment tower fires and construction failures…
01 April 2019
Climate change may bring more New Zealand flood events like the weather system that hit the South Island’s west coast last week…
25 March 2019
Tropical Cyclone Veronica has been downgraded to Category 2, but the slow-moving storm threatens to bring floods as it tracks west close to WA’s Pilbara coast today…
25 March 2019
The Bureau of Meteorology says the chance of an El Nino developing this year has risen to 70%, triple the normal likelihood…
25 March 2019
Federal MP Warren Entsch has labelled the Insurance Council of Australia “opportunistic” over its push for more funding of mitigation programs…
25 March 2019
Fintech Australia will relocate its headquarters from Sydney to Melbourne’s Victorian Innovation Hub in Docklands – but its insurtech division is staying put in Sydney…
25 March 2019
The building industry crisis exposed by the Lacrosse apartment fire is tipped to take years to resolve as issues from past failures continue to emerge…
25 March 2019
Disputes with general insurers accounted for 22% of the 23,681 cases the Australian Financial Complaints Authority received in the four months from its launch last November…
25 March 2019
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has established an expanded consumer advisory panel…
25 March 2019
Present guidelines and regulations are insufficient to ensure the building of commercial solar farms that can withstand powerful cyclones, mutual insurer FM Global says…
25 March 2019
New Zealand insurers have waived terrorism exclusions for claims arising from the attack on two Christchurch mosques, as the country prepares for a national remembrance service this week…
25 March 2019
New Zealand’s Earthquake Commission has settled claims lodged by eight St Clair property owners following a landslide last year…
25 March 2019
Moving flood-hit communities to higher ground should be considered only as a “last-ditch” solution, the Insurance Council of Australia says…
18 March 2019
Growing revenues and healthy margins mean broking businesses are prospering, but they are increasingly worried about technology and preparing for the future, a new Macquarie Bank report says…
18 March 2019
Consumer advocates have called for a wider review of the role played by New Zealand’s government-owned Earthquake Commission after IAG announced it is taking a more conservative approach to home and contents cover in Wellington…