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Suncorp CEO discusses alternative reinsurance with Australia's Assistant Treasurer

"Regulatory requirements" impeded Suncorp's use of it so far, says Steve Johnston

Suncorp close to being standalone insurer as bank sale wins tribunal nod

Unipol aims to buy UnipolSai outright, and eliminate group's holding company structure

Changed rates climate and lack of M&A opportunities spurred long-considered move

Brickbats rain down on Australia's property insurers at parliamentary investigation

Politicians suggested Australia's insurers had only themselves to blame for a humiliating grilling over responses to 2022's flooding. But insurers said constructing homes in flood plains is not exactly helping, as David Walker reports

Achmea says "exploring internal and external options" for life business

Dutch conglomerate has one life unit and two pensions units

From the elderly to mountain climbers, Japan's motor insurers identify higher risk drivers

Sector is helping reduce crashes among higher-risk cohorts

Reinsurers have "lost their appetite for Australia" admits non-life association's CEO

Suncorp says secondary peril risk-modelling has supplanted diversification benefits, in reinsurers' eyes

Australia's insurers want a property 'buy-back fund' as global warming unfolds

Sector reveals the worst scenario that it's already contemplating

Australia to face reinsurance withdrawal if building isn't smarter

Insurers set to give evidence to parliamentary committee probing 2022 floods

Government reinsurer to cover A$14m of Suncorp's latest gross cyclone costs

Cyclone Jasper hit far north Queensland in December