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  • Australia's insurers get grilled after the country burns

    21 May 2020

    A parliamentary committee took Australia's insurers to task after a torrid season of bushfires, Covid-19 and scathing criticism of their conduct and governance. David Walker reports

  • Insurance Council of Australia recruits Andrew Hall as chief

    20 May 2020

    Hall joins the ICA from the Commonwealth Bank

  • Australia's non-life sector examines covering future pandemics

    28 April 2020

    The Insurance Council of Australia's assessment should be ready by July

  • Australian watchdog invites talks with un-generous motor firms

    27 April 2020

    Asic spells out Covid-19 expectations in letters to non-life and life insurers

  • Mitigate future pandemics with public-private partnerships, says Ferma

    20 April 2020

    European risk management association writes to the European Commission urging action

  • Australian bushfire crisis 'likely to happen again'

    17 April 2020

    Royal Commission examines lessons from the catastrophe that triggered $380m of insured losses

  • Coronavirus: insurance regulatory action tracker - UPDATED

    08 April 2020

    The latest worldwide insurance regulatory responses to Covid-19 summarised

  • Apra hits pause on licensing new insurers as Covid-19 toughens conditions

    08 April 2020

    Head of country's largest non-life firm announces retirement

  • Apra urges delay on dividend payments

    07 April 2020

    Australian regulator sets expectations on insurers' capital amid coronavirus

  • Australian life insurers in Covid-19 frontline vow

    06 April 2020

    The Financial Services Council announces three pledges to help frontline healthcare workers