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• Australia's property insurance model caught off-guard by climate change

  17 December 2024

  A series of unprecedented disasters has revealed serious flaws in how the non-life insurance sector operates, but critics are making suggestions on how to improve matters, as David Walker discovers

• Australia faces up to climate insurance affordability crisis

  26 August 2024

  Actuaries Institute finds 15% of homes now under "insurance affordability stress"

• NZIA withdrawals not an industry-wide pull-back from ESG, says AM Best

  01 June 2023

  Building consensus can be challenging, says chief rating officer

• Insurers get to grips with climate disclosure

  26 November 2019

  It has been more than two years since the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) issued its recommendations to companies. Paul Walsh investigates the challenges the reporting framework has brought for insurers and what progress needs to be made