All the headlines from our Australia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2021 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared an insurance catastrophe for parts of South Australia, which were hit by significant hail, rain, and strong winds over the past 24 hours.Insurers have received more...
Oct 26 2021 // SYDNEY – A small Australian publisher is calling for the government to enforce a new law to compel Facebook Inc to negotiate a content deal, prompting the architect of the rule to say he was “concerned” about...
Oct 15 2021 // Australia’s corporate regulator commenced civil proceedings against a unit of Insurance Australia Group on Friday, for failing to pass on discounts worth A$60 million ($44.51 million) to nearly 600,000 customers.The...
Oct 11 2021 // A class action lawsuit that claims Australia is misleading investors by failing to disclose the impact of climate risk in its bonds will proceed after government lawyers failed to get the case dismissed.The lawsuit may...
Oct 7 2021 // Australia’s top law officer has written to her state counterparts urging them to redraft the country’s defamation law after a High Court ruling that publishers of social media posts are liable for reader...
Oct 1 2021 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has announced the launch of a new platform providing real-time industry loss estimates for hailstorm events in...
Sep 28 2021 // Australian insurance startup Cover Genius Pty Ltd. boosted its valuation to A$1 billion ($729 million), after raising A$100 million [$72.8 million] from investors including G Squared and Japanese insurer Sompo Holdings...
Sep 17 2021 // Zurich Insurance Group AG is considering a sale of some of its general insurance assets in Australia as the Swiss firm seeks to streamline its portfolio, according to people familiar with the matter.The insurer is working...
Sep 16 2021 // Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country’s top lender, said on Thursday it would plead guilty to 30 charges brought against it in the federal court for mis-selling consumer credit insurance (CCI) to its...
Sep 14 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at three brokers: BMS, Oneglobal Broking and Miller.A summary of these new hires follows. BMS Australia Names Gallagher’s Van Dugteren, Aon’s...
Sep 9 2021 // MELBOURNE — Australia’s biggest news publishers including Rupert Murdoch’s the Australian are responsible for comments that readers post on their corporate Facebook pages, the High Court ruled on...
Aug 20 2021 // Reinsurance Placement Platform Supercede Hires Former Willis Re CTOSupercede, the London-based global reinsurance placement platform, announced the appointment of Aydin Betez, formerly chief technology officer of Willis...
Jul 26 2021 // This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at London-based broker Howden Reinsurance and Berkley Re Australia.A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden Reinsurance, part of international...
Jul 7 2021 // This group of International People Moves covers appointments at three brokers: Miller, BMS and Lockton Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. Miller, the London-based independent specialist re/insurance broker,...
Jun 22 2021 // These international People Moves include recent appointments at Howden Australia, which hired three people from Marsh; a new hire at Strategic Risk Solutions in Luxembourg and a promotion at Liberty Specialty Markets in...
Jun 14 2021 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a catastrophe for regions of Victoria affected by significant storms and flooding of the last few days.The ICA’s catastrophe declaration serves to escalate and...
Jun 1 2021 // MELBOURNE – Australian and North American units of the world’s largest meat works were hit over the weekend by an organized cyber attack on its information systems, Brazil’s JBS SA said in a statement.The...
May 28 2021 // SYDNEY – Australia is considering capping fees for litigation funders and lawyers, and guaranteeing a minimum rate of return for plaintiffs, in its latest clamp down on the industry following a surge in costly class...
May 26 2021 // This wrap-up of international People Moves details recent appointments at Peak Re, the Hong Kong-based reinsurer; Euler Hermes, the Paris headquartered credit insurer, and Sedgwick, the provider of technology-enabled risk,...
May 21 2021 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) welcomed the budget announcement from the state of Victoria of funding of A$517 million (US$401 million), which will be allocated across several bushfire risk reduction projects....