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Sedgwick shares claims lessons from year of catastrophes

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:31:44 GMT

Preparation and people on the ground are crucial for insurers when handling natural disasters, according to claims manager Sedgwick...

Arteva boss takes group role as Hunter chief to retire

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:30:26 GMT

Hunter Premium Funding CEO Brad Bartlem is retiring after 26 years with the business, which operates across Australia and New Zealand...

Exclusions scupper ANZ class action claim

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:21:37 GMT

ANZ Bank has lost legal action aiming to make a group of 26 insurers and Lloyd’s syndicates cover its costs from settling two class actions...

Recycling business charged after worker injured by explosion

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:16:22 GMT

Victoria’s WorkSafe is taking a scrap recycling business to court after a worker was seriously injured in an explosion...

Claim denial over driving offences doesn’t add up

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:24:26 GMT

An insurer has been ordered to reinstate a commercial motor policy and reassess a truck vandalism claim after failing to prove the policyholder breached its duty of disclosure around driving offences...

An ice bonus for adventurer who was misled and missed sled

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:11:10 GMT

An insurer has been ordered to increase a compensation offer after incorrectly telling a traveller her policy did not cover a pre-booked husky sledding tour in Finland...

IAG makes fresh pledges in push to seal RAC deal

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:10:27 GMT

IAG has proposed selling its NRMA Insurance home and motor portfolio renewal rights in WA and investing $20 million in resilience initiatives to assure the competition regulator its planned RAC acquisition is in the public interest...

Advice group cops $1.3m ‘sting’ over cyber failings

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:56:02 GMT

Financial advice group Fortnum Private Wealth has been fined $1.35 million over cybersecurity lapses including a data breach in 2022 that affected more than 9000 clients...

Winds of change: Suncorp data reveals shift in storm hotspots

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:55:16 GMT

Severe storm damage hotspots have shifted across most states over the past five years, according to Suncorp claims data...

INsight podcast: Hollard’s good faith fine and what it means

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:48:05 GMT

A $2 million fine imposed on Hollard for claim handling failures is one of the main topics discussed on the latest Insurance News podcast...

Truckies steering towards safety as major crash toll drops

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:10:44 GMT

Heavy truck major loss claim numbers fell 22.3% last year, with more than half linked to driver inattention and other human-related causes, according to an NTI-backed report...

Mental strain ‘hits harder’ for regional workers

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:10:25 GMT

Regional employees are disproportionately affected by workplace mental health challenges compared with metropolitan people, with impacts including longer recovery periods after claims, Allianz Australia research shows...

ANZIIF names New Zealand awards contenders

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:08:44 GMT

The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance has announced the finalists for its NZ awards program...

Last chance to sign up for free webinar on ‘fixing communication’

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:06:55 GMT

An Insurance News webinar takes place tomorrow at 10.30am, focused on how insurers can turn around communication with customers that too often is “fragmented and failing”...

Crash driver fails to wipe excess by blaming ‘jaywalking pedestrian’

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:06:30 GMT

The industry ombudsman has backed an insurer’s decision to write off a car that hit a pedestrian, rejecting the owner’s argument the company overstated repair costs...

Hollard fined $2m after storm claimants ‘left in limbo for years’

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:17:01 GMT

The Federal Court has fined Hollard $2 million over failures handling a home and contents claim made by a couple after a storm damaged their roof...

Canberra drops plan to slash disaster recovery funding

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:13:59 GMT

The federal government has scrapped proposed changes to the Disaster Recovery Funding Framework after a campaign by Queensland councils and politicians...

Industry questions Treasury calculations on compo scheme levy

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:13:44 GMT

Insurers have pressed for a rethink on their share of the $170.3 million special levy to cover a cost blowout in the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort, questioning the metrics used to decide contributions...

Policyholders telling porkies to pare premiums

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:13:00 GMT

More than one in five Australians bend the truth on their home insurance applications to save money, according to research by comparison site Finder...

AFCA sides with car insurer in row over fair value

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:10:16 GMT

The industry ombudsman has backed an insurer after policyholders complained they were misled into believing their car’s agreed value reflected its market worth...