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  • 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

  • Insurers issue cool response to modelling for Australia's A$10bn public reinsurer

    30 June 2022

    Low-risk properties could end up paying more

  • Australian insurers' rebuild costs rocket 12% in a month

    28 June 2022

    Industry still repairing flood-hit areas from February/March

  • IAG boosts nat cat expectation following Australia floods

    09 March 2022

    Trade body chief says some insurers might have "no appetite" for flood-afflicted areas