Archive

  • 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

  • Suncorp CEO discusses alternative reinsurance with Australia's Assistant Treasurer

    26 February 2024

    "Regulatory requirements" impeded Suncorp's use of it so far, says Steve Johnston

  • Suncorp close to being standalone insurer as bank sale wins tribunal nod

    20 February 2024
  • 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

  • Government reinsurer to cover A$14m of Suncorp's latest gross cyclone costs

    29 January 2024

    Cyclone Jasper hit far north Queensland in December

  • Suncorp CEO hopes reinsurers' "structural reset" is now done

    09 August 2023

    Australasian underwriter reorders reinsurance programme amid "record-high" costs

  • Suncorp expects 12% higher reinsurance and natcat budget bill this year

    04 July 2023

    Australasian bancassurer got some relief from joining public reinsurance pool in June

  • NZ firms trumpet second-event reinsurance as cyclone Gabrielle follows floods

    15 February 2023

    Underwriters expect Gabrielle's costs to exceed 2016's Kaikoura earthquake bill of NZ$2.3bn

  • Claims inflation? What claims inflation?

    26 August 2022

    Rising costs of goods and labour may be squeezing underwriting results in Europe and North America, but for many insurers in Asia, claims cost inflation is a world away in every sense. David Walker reports