General insurance and financial services news from Australia and around the worldhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/en-auhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/macquarie-fills-insurance-segment-leadership-slothttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/macquarie-fills-insurance-segment-leadership-slot<p>Macquarie Group state leader for professional services Sarah Petzel has been made insurance segment head following the departure of Andrew Knowles to Austbrokers Countrywide...</p>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:27:50 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/nzi-adds-respected-proven-managershttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/nzi-adds-respected-proven-managers<p>Kent Chaplin and Troy Sexton have been appointed to IAG subsidiary NZI&rsquo;s property and liability team...</p>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:27:41 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/envest-pair-win-ardonagh-employee-awardshttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/envest-pair-win-ardonagh-employee-awards<p>North Queensland Insurance Brokers business development manager Paul Glasby has won this year&rsquo;s Ardonagh client and customer champion award, while Epsilon senior construction underwriter Tom Bennett was crowned rising star...</p>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:27:30 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/anziif-to-hold-rendezvous-in-octoberhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/anziif-to-hold-rendezvous-in-october<p>The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance will hold its biennial Reinsurance Rendezvous conference from October 13-14...</p>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:27:21 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/rm-advancer-awards-nominations-openhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/rm-advancer-awards-nominations-open<p>Nominations have opened for the 18th RM Advancer Awards, celebrating risk management practices by Vero and GIO workers&rsquo; compensation clients...</p>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:11:38 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/zurich-recruits-suncorp-exec-for-consumer-claims-rolehttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/zurich-recruits-suncorp-exec-for-consumer-claims-role<p>Zurich says Aaron Molivas will join this month in the newly created role of Australia and New Zealand head of general insurance consumer claims...</p>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:11:30 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/steadfast-s-cassidy-retires-after-tremendous-contributionhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/steadfast-s-cassidy-retires-after-tremendous-contribution<p>Steadfast executive Graham Cassidy has retired after 20 years with the broking network, ending an insurance career spanning almost five decades...</p>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:11:16 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/emergence-revamps-leadership-teamhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/emergence-revamps-leadership-team<p>Cyber specialist Emergence Insurance says it has made leadership changes to drive its next stage of growth...</p>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:10:57 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/anziif-names-new-directorhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/anziif-names-new-director<p>360 Underwriting Solutions CEO for Australia Jason Clarke has become a director at the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance...</p>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:10:47 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/final-call-to-nominate-mansfield-awards-contendershttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/final-call-to-nominate-mansfield-awards-contenders<p>Nominations for the 10th Mansfield Awards are open until tomorrow, and the winners will be crowned in Sydney on August 27...</p>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:40:24 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/date-set-for-aicla-claims-conferencehttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/date-set-for-aicla-claims-conference<p>This year&rsquo;s Claims Convention will take place on September 9 at Sydney&rsquo;s Sofitel Wentworth...</p>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:40:12 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/barry-nilsson-celebrates-largest-promotion-roundhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/barry-nilsson-celebrates-largest-promotion-round<p>Law firm Barry Nilsson has made a raft of promotions in its insurance team, including senior lawyers Natalie Aprea and Stephanie Carter moving up to become principals...</p>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:39:58 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/wfi-partnership-eases-enormous-strain-on-farmers-mental-healthhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/wfi-partnership-eases-enormous-strain-on-farmers-mental-health<p>Agricultural insurer WFI Insurance and wellbeing platform Sonder have teamed up to support mental health among farmers facing compounding climate events, geopolitical challenges and rising costs...</p>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:39:40 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/gt-recruits-qbe-manager-as-operations-chiefhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/gt-recruits-qbe-manager-as-operations-chief<p>Allianz subsidiary GT Insurance says Arron Mann, most recently QBE&rsquo;s short-tail claims GM, has joined as COO...</p>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:52:34 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/using-ai-to-cut-costs-an-ineffective-sugar-hit-pw-chttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/using-ai-to-cut-costs-an-ineffective-sugar-hit-pw-c<p>PwC has analysed more than 1 billion job adverts worldwide and found businesses that &ldquo;think big&rdquo; achieve the greatest gains from AI...</p>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:52:24 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/apig-conference-casts-eye-over-present-and-futurehttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/apig-conference-casts-eye-over-present-and-future<p>The Australasian Professional Indemnity Group&rsquo;s annual conference will examine the state of the market and the evolving risk landscape...</p>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:52:13 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/anziif-holds-liability-conferencehttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/anziif-holds-liability-conference<p>The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance will host a liability conference in Auckland on Wednesday...</p>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:52:00 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/industry-workers-averagely-ambitious-on-pay-riseshttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/industry-workers-averagely-ambitious-on-pay-rises<p>Insurance professionals expect their pay to increase by 3.8% over the next year, matching the average change predicted in a Hays survey of 7000 Australians and New Zealanders across all industries...</p>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:23:43 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/zurich-brings-in-ar-group-leaderhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/zurich-brings-in-ar-group-leader<p>Faaizah Banu has been appointed Zurich national lead for authorised representative groups...</p>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:32:30 GMThttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/register-now-for-free-claims-automation-webinarhttps://www.insurancenews.com.au/the-professional/register-now-for-free-claims-automation-webinar<p>A webinar hosted by Insurance News and Guidewire will reveal real-world observations of success and challenges in automating claims handling...</p>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:32:15 GMT