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- June 19 2025
Markel International appoints Muhammad Saber as operations manager for APAC
Singapore-based Saber joins from Liberty Specialty Markets where he was most recently operations team lead.
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- June 18 2025
Allianz Trade promotes Helene Payen to Asia Pacific CFO
Payen will relocate from Spain to Singapore, succeeding Benoit Semelin who will become CFO for Northern Europe.
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- June 18 2025
‘Surely, prices will go up’: Air India crash to push hull and liability rates, could impact product liability
Brokers and a lawyer tell InsuranceAsia News that last week's fatal crash in Ahmedabad will have a wide-ranging impact on the aviation industry, with total losses set to be as much as US$475m.
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- June 18 2025
South Korean insurers’ K-ICS ratio falls below 200% for the first time, standing at 197.9%
The ratio for non-life insurers decreased by 3.4 percentage points to 207.6% at the end of March compared to 3 months earlier, while that of life insurance companies fell 12.7 percentage points to 190.7%.
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- June 17 2025
Exclusive: Zurich names Koji Okumura as senior property underwriter in Japan
Okumura earlier worked at Munich Re as an underwriter for almost 10 years, travelling between Japan and Hong Kong.
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- June 16 2025
Exclusive: Marsh Japan hires WTW veteran Hirofumi ‘Luke’ Nakamura amid exodus, talent battle
Tokyo-based Nakamura joins Marsh as a senior vice president along with several other former WTW colleagues.
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- June 16 2025
Gard appoints André Kroneberg as Asia business unit head amid major global restructuring
P&I club will form five market-facing syndicates, with Bjørnar Andresen and Christen Guddal taking on global responsibilities.
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- June 16 2025
Taiwan’s non-life insurance premiums surge 10.5% in 2024, driven by motor: AM Best
Non-life insurer’s total DWP rose 10.9% to NT$271bn, while net claims fell 13.8% to NT$100.6bn.
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- June 16 2025
Marsh Japan appoints Shohei Iida as vice president for private equity, M&A services
Tokyo-based Iida was previoulsy a financial lines underwriter at Allianz Commercial and AIG.
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- June 15 2025
Aviation premiums could go up by 10% in FY27 following Air India crash: reports
Death toll has risen to 270 after Air India flight 171 crashed into a residential building shortly after take-off from in Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
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- June 13 2025
Singapore Re expands into India with GIFT City branch
The Fairfax Asia owned reinsurer becomes the fourth international company to set up a branch in the Indian financial special economic zone.
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- June 13 2025
Air India crash claims could top US$280m, ‘investigations will take time’
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after departing Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon, killing 241 passengers and crew.
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- June 13 2025
HDI Global reshuffles APAC engineering team
Haris Michaels will relocate from Sydney to Singapore, with Stevan Bonic taking over as engineering underwriting manager for Australasia.
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- June 13 2025
Air India crash: Tata AIG leads program jointly placed by Gallagher and WTW
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed minutes after take-off from India’s Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon with 242 people on board.
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- June 13 2025
Aon Thailand appoints Chalisa Maythangkul as director for natural resources
Bangkok-based Maythangkul has over 30 years' experience in the power insurance sector, having most recently been executive consultant at Howden Maxi and Howden Singapore.
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- June 12 2025
SBI General Insurance appoints Mohd Arif Khan as deputy CEO
Khan joins the carrier from the State Bank of India, where he was most recently general manager.
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- June 11 2025
South Korea slashes recommended CAR for insurers to 130%: report
Financial Services Commission will remove requirements related to net loss and insurance operating loss from the conditions for reversing emergency risk reserves.
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- June 11 2025
Samsung Fire & Marine to buy additional 21% stake in Canopius
Transaction will increase the Korean insurer's total share to 40%.
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- June 11 2025
‘No hope of recovery’: MSC Elsa 3 salvage efforts begin in India, but total loss expected
NorthStandard is understood to be the claims leader for the Liberian-flagged container ship that sank last month off the coast of India.
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- June 10 2025
Jon Holmes to succeed Steve Randall as CEO of Shipowners’ Club Singapore branch
Randall is set to retire after 48 years of service, while Jeremy Slater will assume the role of underwriting director for the P&I Club's Singapore branch.
