MLC doubles down on group insurance
Flat growth in the retail life insurance market has prompted MLC Life Insurance chief executive David Hackett to target the group insurance market.
QBE's Brexit revamp gets green light
The insurer has rolled all its European reinsurance and insurance businesses into a new Brussels-based subsidiary as Brexit looms.
Motorists 'to pay for self-drive crashes'
As automated vehicles move from science fiction to reality, one insurance provider is warning motorists could soon be footing the bill for crashes.
World ‘sleepwalking into catastrophe’ over climate risk
The global business community has identified the catastrophic effects of climate change as by far the greatest long-term risk facing the world.
Construction faces 'screeching halt'
The combustible cladding crisis has left Australian building surveyors struggling to find legally compliant professional indemnity insurance.
Combustible cladding crisis pushes up insurance premiums
Simon Weaver of Willis Towers Watson said property premiums had gone up in the past year after 20 years of stability, with the cladding prob...
Willis Towers Watson makes play for insurance market share
Willis Towers Watson's new head of Australia Simon Weaver says there is "more to be done" to take advantage of the 2016 merger of Willis Gro...
Insurers wary of blanket commission ban
General insurers and brokers are bracing themselves for the Hayne royal commission to recommend a blanket ban on conflicted remuneration.
Royal commission fears spark mass insurance exclusions
"Virtually all" insurers in Australia are now putting royal commission exclusion clauses into new directors and officers insurance policies,...
Judge orders 'petty' insurer to pay for $200 running shoes
A Federal Court judge has taken aim at Comcare over its decision to stop paying for a public servant's running shoes because they did not fi...
