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- October 16 2025
Charles Taylor expands marine technical footprint in India, Qatar with Soteria associateship
This collaboration is in addition to the existing associate, SKAAD Insurance Surveyors & Loss Assessors in India.
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- October 14 2025
Marine insurance rates may rise following Sri Lanka’s US$1bn plastic spill ruling: report
A cargo ship owned by Singapore’s X-Press Feeders, insured by London P&I Club, spilt tens of billions of petrochemical pellets and burnt plastic, oil and chemicals into the ocean off Colombo in 2021.
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- October 10 2025
Vietnam’s 2025 nat cat economic losses top US$1.3bn
Typhoon Matmo over the weekend expected to add hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to the region recovering from the Typhoon Bualoi the week before.
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- October 10 2025
Marsh Pacific names Steven Cakaric as head of sales in ongoing leadership rejig
With 25 years of experience, Melbourne-based Cakaric was most recently director for national client solutions at Mercer Marsh Benefits.
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- October 9 2025
Aon elevates Wee Teck Tea to spearhead commercial risk solutions in Singapore
Tea has been with the global broker for over 14 years, most recently as executive director, head of P&C, affinity, claims.
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- October 7 2025
Vietnam’s Typhoon Bualoi insurance payouts cross US$13m
Vung Ang 2 thermal power plant is believed to have suffered the biggest loss following typhoon Bualoi, which killed at least 53, injured 165 and left 14 missing after hitting 12 Vietnamese provinces last week.
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- October 6 2025
IAG New Zealand fined record US$11.4m for misleading customers
New Zealand's largest insurer admitted overcharging 269,000 customers US$20.4m, according to the Financial Markets Authority.
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- October 2 2025
Typhoon Bualoi results in US$432m economic losses in Vietnam: reports
Insured loss is expected to account for 5-10% of the economic loss, McLarens' country manager in Vietnam told InsuranceAsia News.
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- October 2 2025
Gallagher Re appoints Jennifer Wen as executive director in Taiwan
Wen has more than 30 years of experience across the reinsurance treaty markets in Taiwan and Guam.
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- October 2 2025
‘We have to roll with the punches’: testing time for evolving renewable energy market, Tokio Marine GX’s Will Hiller says
Underwriter also talks to InsuranceAsia News' Between the Lines podcast about nat cat risks and technology development following the launch of Tokio Marine Holdings' underwriting platform last month.
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- October 1 2025
MS&AD to rebrand as Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group after merger of domestic P&C arms
The group will rename the combined domestic non-life insurance businesses as Mitsui Sumitomo Aioi Insurance from April 2027.
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- October 1 2025
Brookfield closes first reinsurance deal in Japan
The flow deal allows Dai-ichi Frontier Life to reinsure liabilities to American National Insurance Company starting October.
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- October 1 2025
Typhoon Bualoi: damage to Vietnamese thermal power plant may trigger reinsurance claims
Starr is the lead reinsurer for the PVI-led insurance program of the supercritical project in the northern Ha Tinh province, InsuranceAsia News understands.
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- September 29 2025
Hong Kong’s curtailed Super Typhoon Ragasa economic losses under US$400m: report
Claims mainly from wind and flooding, with water damage across all affected territories, David Seng, technical and strategic projects director at Sedgwick in Asia also tells InsuranceAsia News.
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- September 26 2025
Malaysian (re)insurance broker HLAP expands to Vietnam with business development director hire
Vietnam-based Kieu An over 30 years of insurance experience and will report directly to CEO Lee Warner.
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- September 26 2025
Super Typhoon Ragasa’s impact less than feared in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau
Despite widespread reports of property losses, claims from the strongest storm of the year are expected to be much smaller than that from Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, loss adjusters tell IAN.
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- September 25 2025
IAG’s RAC Insurance acquisition faces member disquiet, club’s CEO claims deal is ‘best path forward’: report
The deal being scrutinised by ACCC, which said it can potentially weaken competition in the supply of motor and home and contents products in Western Australia.
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- September 24 2025
Marsh Asia appoints Dale Williams as corporate and commercial leader
Singapore-based Williams was most recently commercial leader at Mercer Asia.
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- September 23 2025
Super Typhoon Ragasa: Hong Kong insurance industry braces for world’s strongest storm in 2025
Tens of millions of people could be impacted as the storm passes south of the major centres of Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
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- September 23 2025
ARPC revises cyclone pool rates with SME risk mitigation discounts
Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC) makes no other changes to the premium rating, with home and strata premium rates unchanged.
