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- February 6 2025
Australian broker domo recruits Aon’s Anthony White as head of property, construction
White returns to Melbourne to join the broking startup after nearly a decade in London as part of Aon’s international construction team.
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- February 6 2025
Queensland flood claims near 4,000, but too early to estimate total damage
Insurance Council of Australia says many communities remain isolated after the region was battered by heavy rain since last week.
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- February 6 2025
Sompo appoints Lily Claydon as chief risk officer, Asia Pacific
Claydon joins from AIG, where she was the APAC chief risk officer.
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- February 4 2025
FM promotes Singapore-based Chia Howe Chang to broker engagement manager
Chang, who has worked at the commercial insurer for 14 years in two separate stints, was most recently global services executive.
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- February 3 2025
Cyber specialist Sync Underwriting launches in Australia with Tokio Marine capacity
The MGA, which is part of the Rhodian Group underwriting network, will provide cover for small to mid-sized businesses in the country.
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- January 26 2025
Ergo Thailand appoints AIG’s Isorasak Thesratanavong as CEO
He succeeds Till Boehmer, who will take over the newly created position as deputy CEO within Ergo Thailand.
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- January 26 2025
Howden aviation broker Isaac Fuente swaps London for Singapore
Fuente has been appointed as a senior aviation insurance broker, having joined Howden in May 2022.
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- January 24 2025
Axa XL, Lockton, WTW, Tower: 10 APAC insurance people moves of the week
Aon, AIG, Price Forbes, MSIG Thailand, Crawford and Zurich Kotak also made personnel changes over the last week.
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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.
