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Suncorp turns tax collector for over A$1bn insurance policy duties and levies
19 March 2024CEO and industry have criticised Australia's policy taxes, for fuelling affordability crisis
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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
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Suncorp close to being standalone insurer as bank sale wins tribunal nod
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Brickbats rain down on Australia's property insurers at parliamentary investigation
14 February 2024Politicians 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
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Reinsurers have "lost their appetite for Australia" admits non-life association's CEO
06 February 2024Suncorp says secondary peril risk-modelling has supplanted diversification benefits, in reinsurers' eyes
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Government reinsurer to cover A$14m of Suncorp's latest gross cyclone costs
29 January 2024Cyclone Jasper hit far north Queensland in December
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Suncorp CEO hopes reinsurers' "structural reset" is now done
09 August 2023Australasian underwriter reorders reinsurance programme amid "record-high" costs
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Suncorp expects 12% higher reinsurance and natcat budget bill this year
04 July 2023Australasian bancassurer got some relief from joining public reinsurance pool in June
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NZ firms trumpet second-event reinsurance as cyclone Gabrielle follows floods
15 February 2023Underwriters expect Gabrielle's costs to exceed 2016's Kaikoura earthquake bill of NZ$2.3bn
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Claims inflation? What claims inflation?
26 August 2022Rising 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