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- January 31 2024
ICA calls for US$329m budget funding to boost resiliency against floods
Building on the 2022 schemes for NSW and Queensland, the new funding should be equally shared between federal and state budgets to move 750 families out of danger zones.
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- December 7 2023
Australia’s financial advice reform package to facilitate access to insurance: ICA
The recent changes, among them modernised best interests duty, will allow insurance customers receive advice directly from the carriers and be better informed which ICA sees as an important matter in the context of the growing protection gap.
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- November 27 2023
Over 85% of Australian carriers on track to achieve net-zero by 2050: ICA
An updated climate change roadmap provides goals and best practice guidelines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for operations by the end of this decade and across the entire value chain by 2050.
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- October 31 2023
ICA accepts seven recommendations from post-flood review
Global consultancy Deloitte has highlighted several areas where insurers fell short of best practices while dealing with the February to March 2022 floods.
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- September 29 2023
ICA urges New South Wales to drop fire services levy after Tasmania axe
The NSW state levy is forecast to collect US$900m in revenue from insurance customers in FY 2023-24.
