Archive

  • Commonwealth insurance groups call for action on global protection gap

    22 October 2024

    Less taxes and more efforts to build resilience and data needed

  • ICA reveals insured natcat losses have tripled over last three decades

    19 August 2024

    Insurers' profitability has been dented from the costs, trade body adds

  • 'We keep losing money', global reinsurers warn about Australian property cover

    07 May 2024

    Australian insurance delegation visited Lloyd's and other reinsurers for candid talks last year

  • Suncorp turns tax collector for over A$1bn insurance policy duties and levies

    19 March 2024

    CEO and industry have criticised Australia's policy taxes, for fuelling affordability crisis

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

    14 February 2024

    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

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

    06 February 2024

    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

    05 February 2024

    Sector reveals the worst scenario that it's already contemplating

  • Historic cat loss data sends stark warning to Australian insurers

    14 September 2023

    Cat modelling firm Risk Frontiers calculate the present-day impact of past insurance catastrophes

  • Australian BI insurers win as High Court refuses right to appeal

    14 October 2022

    Denial of appeal means protracted BI test case process has largely drawn to a close

  • Australia's IAG joins Net-Zero Insurance Alliance

    12 July 2022

    Announces partnership with First Nations group generating carbon credits