Archive

  • IAG hikes natcat budget by 37% after stormy weather

    02 November 2021

    October storms in South Australia and Victoria add to claims burden

  • Economic losses from nat cats could double for Australian insurers by 2060

    07 October 2021

    Deloitte Access Economics examines the impact of climate change-related disasters on Australia

  • IAG loses CRO to local bank

    22 September 2021

    David Watts will leave non-life firm early in 2022

  • IAG "playing catch-up" with rising costs of natural disasters

    26 July 2021

    Australian non-life firm flags A$100m increase in natural perils allowance

  • Australia to guarantee property reinsurance pool in natcat-prone north

    05 May 2021

    The A$10bn support shows "underwriters will not stand alone," says local government head

  • IAG says reinsurers still prepared to take more of its risk

    10 February 2021

    CFO says reinsurers appreciated "decisiveness" of recent A$1.2bn Covid reserving

  • IAG picks replacement for departing CEO

    21 September 2020

    Nick Hawkins will climb the final rung to assume Peter Harmer's role

  • Apra hits pause on licensing new insurers as Covid-19 toughens conditions

    08 April 2020

    Head of country's largest non-life firm announces retirement

  • Australia and reinsurance: continuing the affair

    04 February 2020

    Australia's insurers make extensive use of reinsurance and reinsurers like to take on the risk - and the relationship looks set to survive the recent catastrophes that have beset the country, as David Walker reports

  • IAG blows perils budget as bushfires keep devouring Australia

    06 January 2020

    P&C insurers receive nearly 6,000 claims, figures expected to climb significantly