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- July 24 2025
New Zealand brokers’ association names new CEO
Katherine Wilson is currently head of advocacy at the Property Council of New Zealand.
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- July 24 2025
QBE signs up Sure to distribute intermediated home cover in Australia
Australian insurer will no longer offer domestic householders’ insurance directly through its broker channel from the start of October.
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- July 23 2025
Steadfast Group-owned Miramar ropes in AIG veteran Michael Mackenzie as head of underwriting technical services
Melbourne-based Mackenzie spent over nine years at AIG, having also worked for the likes of Allianz, Zurich, Chubb, and CGU.
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- July 23 2025
Deadly Ha Long Bay boat capsize insurance payouts to top US$500,000: reports
At least 37 people died after the Wonder Seas capsized during bad weather in Vietnam on Saturday.
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- July 22 2025
South Korea flood motor claims rise to US$22m: report
At least 17 people died in floods and landslides caused by the torrential rain, which started last week and intensified over the weekend.
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- July 22 2025
Australia’s cyclone pool lowering rates in high-risk areas, yet insurance availability unchanged: ACCC
Competition regulator's insurance monitoring report says the pool is having an impact on the premiums of policyholders who live in areas with higher cyclone risk.
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- July 21 2025
Wenqiao Li returns to Allianz, joins commercial arm as head of distribution management
Hong Kong-based Li joins from Descartes Underwriting.
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- July 21 2025
Australian cyclone season highlights changing landscape, challenges ahead
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which caused US$843m in insured losses, was the most high-profile event of the 2024-25 cyclone season that recorded 12 windstorms.
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- July 18 2025
South Korea hit by torrential rain with 4 dead, 500 properties damaged
Over 400mm of rain fell over three days, with most rain-related fatalities reported in South Chungcheong province.
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- July 18 2025
Aon, AIG, Markel, Howden, Miller: 10 APAC insurance people moves of the week
Gallagher, Generali GC&C, Allianz Trade, Crawford, Fusion Specialty, MSIG Asia and WTW Insurance Brokers also made personnel changes over the last week.
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- July 18 2025
Howden India bolsters M&A team by hiring Marsh’s Saloni Bhandari as senior VP
Mumbai-based Bhandari has also been named co-head of transactional risk for India.
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- July 18 2025
Crawford confirms Tony Chapman as new head of global technical services for Asia
Appointment of Singapore-based Chapman confirms an earlier exclusive from InsuranceAsia News.
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- July 18 2025
Seadrif, Gallagher Re pioneer multi-peril parametric sovereign disaster risk policy for Laos
The two-year cover, first to use a government-reported impact-based trigger, expands the original flood-only placement to include typhoon, earthquake, and landslide.
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- July 17 2025
Allianz Trade promotes Ivy Wanda Sthefvanie to Indonesia commercial manager
Sthefvanie has been with Allianz Trade for nearly seven years since July 2012, most recently as an account manager.
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- July 17 2025
Envest targets New Zealand expansion, winds up PSC Connect network offering
Envest Group says it will focus on building its branch network under the PSC Insurance Broking banner after the 'difficult decision' was made to wrap up the PSC Connect network after 13 years.
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- July 16 2025
Ex-Lloyd’s CEO John Neal changes course, set to join AIG as president
Lloyd's had confirmed Neal’s departure for Aon in January, after he had served as CEO of Lloyd’s since October 2018.
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- July 16 2025
MSIG Asia snaps up Marsh’s Tijen Joshi for energy, power and construction role
Singapore-based Joshi spent the last two years at Marsh as a senior vice president for claims solutions.
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- July 16 2025
Generali GC&C names Dan Cunningham head of risk engineering, loss prevention for Asia
Hong Kong-based Cunningham has relocated from London.
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- July 15 2025
Ramesh Mahto joins WTW India from Marsh
Mahto will relocate from Mumbai to Pune to join the multinational client management team as an assistant vice president.
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- July 15 2025
Trade risks increase for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand as US tariffs bite: Coface
Global trade credit insurer downgrades risk assessments for the Southeast Asian trio, 'highlighting the intensifying vulnerabilities of highly trade-reliant economies'.
