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- January 22 2025
Australia twin event losses to remain below major cat level, adjuster says
Carriers received 5,400+ claims from severe weather events on the east coast, while Cyclone Sean caused record rains and port disruptions in Western Australia.
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- January 17 2025
Tokio Marine, Gallagher, Markel, AIG: 10 APAC insurance people moves of the week
Miller, Aon, Hydor, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Crawford, Marsh Asia, WTW, Newline Group and Coface also made personnel changes over the last week.
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- January 17 2025
AIG appoints Chubb’s Fery Hakim as Indonesia CEO
Hakim spent almost 11 years at Chubb, most recently as head of broker, bancassurance and multi-finance.
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- January 17 2025
Marsh Asia rejigs renewable energy team in Singapore
Martin Beck has been elevated to energy transition leader, with Robert Jones taking up the new role of renewable energy leader.
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- January 15 2025
Masahiro Koike set to become Tokio Marine Holdings CEO
Koike will take charge in June, succeeding Satoru Komiya, who will become the chairman of the Japanese insurance group.
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- January 14 2025
Tibet earthquake compensation payments, pre-payments near US$5m
China's insurance industry has paid full compensation to the 126 victims of last week's deadly earthquake.
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- January 13 2025
Marsh’s Jack Reuter Town joins WTW Asia large accounts practice
He joins team in Singapore as a strategic client leader, having spent the last five years with Marsh in Sydney.
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- January 10 2025
Jeju Air, Azerbaijan Airlines crashes add early pressure on market: Gallagher Specialty
Losses alone are unlikely to prompt a market reaction, but will impact year-end underwriting results, broker says in a report.
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- January 10 2025
Aon, Zurich, Chubb, Munich Re, Sompo: 10 APAC insurance people moves of the week
Sedgwick, Lockton, Markel, Coface, MSIG Singapore, Crawford, WTW and Samsung Re also made personnel changes over the last week.
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- January 10 2025
Zurich promotes APAC chief underwriting officer to global claims role
Singapore-based Debra Burford confirms to IAN she will relocate to Zurich at the start of the second quarter of the year.
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- January 9 2025
Tibet earthquake payments top US$60,000 from Chinese insurers
- Earthquake
- China
- China Continent P&C
- China Pacific Insurance P&C
- China Re
- China Taiping
- PICC Property and Casualty
- Ping An
- Sunshine Insurance
88 reports, with a total of 20 claims, have been made to insurers, including PICC, China Continent, China Taiping and Sunshine.
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- January 8 2025
Crawford Australia taps new executive adjuster for liability
Paul Hardy joins the firm having most recently spent just under three and a half years as an executive adjuster for Charles Taylor in Victoria, Australia.
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- January 8 2025
Sompo beefs up APAC ranks with new chief claims officer
Pablo Diago takes up the Singapore-based role just over a year after joining from Crawford.
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- January 7 2025
Adi Salleh returns to Samsung Re as senior property underwriter
Salleh had previously worked for nine years at Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, which included just over five years as a fac underwriter for its reinsurance arm.
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- January 6 2025
Guy Carpenter’s global property cat ROL index down 6.6% in first fall since 2017
Asia Pacific experienced the steepest decline at the renewals, down 7.2%, while the US fell by 6.2% and Europe by 5.3%, the broker said.
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- January 3 2025
Exclusive: Tyson Vickery takes up role as global placement leader for Marsh Europe
Vickery, who was placement leader for Marsh Asia, officially started in the new role on January 1 and is relocating to Zurich, he confirms to IAN.
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- January 2 2025
2024 ‘the year of the floods’, Cresta says, as 8 cat events top US$1bn
Noto earthquake in Japan in January last year only event in Asia to meet US$1bn threshold, according to the industry loss data provider.
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- January 2 2025
Marsh Asia promotes Brent Clawson to global placement leader
Clawson joined Marsh in September 2023 having spent over eight years with Aon.
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- January 1 2025
Jeju Air crash insured losses could reach US$150m
The estimated liability claims from the deadly crash could top US$100m, IAN understands.
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- December 31 2024
Swiss Re promotes Aisyah Fuad to market head South-East Asia (South)
Fuad has been with Swiss Re since 2011, holding various positions, including associate client manager for Indonesia and vice president, senior risk manager ORM.
