The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a catastrophe for damage caused by hailstorms that struck eastern Melbourne, the Australian Capital...
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ICA launches local trades regist ...
The Insurance Council of Australian (ICA) has announced the opening of an online register to help local tradespeople and builders play a...
ASIC encourages fair and effecti ...
ASIC Deputy Chair Daniel Crennan QC has said that the regulator is working with insurers and other key stakeholders to ensure that...
Insurance claims handling to be ...
The Federal Treasury has released draft legislation on making insurance claims handling a financial service, and therefore subject to regulatory oversight by...
Sixty percent of $1.243b in Town ...
Sixty per cent of insurance claims lodged since the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) declared a catastrophe for the Townsville monsoonal deluge...
Sydney hail storm update
The latest available data for the Sydney hail storm catastrophe places the estimated value of the event at $1,038,704,566 (82 per cent domestic,...
NSW hail storm damage bill tips ...
Just days before Christmas, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) declared a Catastrophe after storms swept across Sydney and the Central Coast,...
NZ Earthquake and insurance comm ...
As the deadline for filing Kaikoura quake claims looms, Marlborough residents whose properties were impacted by the November 14 earthquake have expressed...
Zurich puts customer first with ...
Zurich has created a new position of Head of Customer, Claims in its General Insurance Claims team, with Gavin Gibson appointed to...
NIBA submission on inquiry into ...
NIBA’s has made an official response to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Inquiry into Life Insurance Industry. The submission has called...
Barry.Nilsson adds workers’ ...
Barry.Nilsson. has strengthened its insurance team, announcing the appointment of new Partner and leading workers’ compensation lawyer, Mark Wiemers, to the firm’s...
East Coast low claims rise to $4 ...
Insurers are continuing to monitor claims coming out of the East Coast Low that hit Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania in June....
East coast storms insurance loss ...
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has released updated figures on the nearly 32,000 claims that resulted from the storms that pummelled...
Summer catastrophe bill spike
A sharp rise in the value of insured losses from the Great Ocean Road bushfires has led to a dramatic spike in the insurance bill from last summer.