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- May 12 2025
Chair of federal flood insurance inquiry named Australian financial services minister
ICA welcomed Anthony Albanese's second Labor government and assistant treasurer and financial services minister Daniel Mulino.
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- May 12 2025
Allianz Commercial appoints Roy Kang as property underwriter in Tokyo
Kang previously worked at Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance for almost nine years, focusing on reinsurance underwriting.
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- May 12 2025
Australia’s extreme weather costs near US$1bn in 2025: ICA
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred was the costliest event at US$770m accounting for more than 90% of the claims.
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- May 12 2025
Axa XL Australia hires trio to expand property, construction, energy claims team
Tylie Petrovski, Rebecca Williams and Ilija Bogoevski have joined the insurer in Brisbane and Sydney.
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- May 12 2025
McLardy McShane acquires authorised representative Stewart Insurance
Melbourne-based broker has been a corporate authorised representative of McLardy McShane for about 10 years.
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- May 12 2025
Korea P&I club gets rating outlook downgrade as 2024 COR climbs to 204%: AM Best
Rating agency has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ (Good) and the long-term ICR of bbb+ (Good) of the club.
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- May 12 2025
Lotte Insurance faces regulatory block on US$64.2m bond redemption amid capital concerns
Under the current supervisory regulations, early redemption is only allowed if the solvency ratio K-ICS remains above 150% after redemption but South Korea's financial regulator estimates the ratio would drop to 127.4% following the redemption.
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- May 10 2025
Full capacity: Buffett touts Berkshire’s insurance edge as he calls time
In the latest issue of our Full Capacity newsletter, we look at Lloyd's new CEO, Munich Re Specialty's diversification in Asia, the war brewing in South Asia as well as a round up of the people moves from last week.
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- May 9 2025
Cut taxes to bring relief to Australian policyholders, QBE chairman says
Australia’s state government insurance taxes raised US$2.2bn more than the entire industry’s profits in 2024.
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- May 9 2025
‘No barriers’ to ILS activity in Asia, says Peak Re’s Iain Reynolds
With the current soft market, investors are being offered 'quite a lot of deals', requiring issuers to fight for attention, the director of third-party capital at the Hong Kong-based reinsurance specialist tells InsuranceAsia News' Between The Lines podcast.
