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- May 18 2026
Kiwi broker Rothbury appoints Aon veteran Charlene Kitching as head of broking services
Role, which will see Kitching work from Rothbury’s Tauranga office, was created following a review of business operations.
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- May 18 2026
Steadfast-owned Miramar acquires Australian sports specialist MGA
Sports Underwriting Australia will join the MGA group as Miramar Sports, strengthening the group’s specialty capabilities.
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- May 18 2026
Cyber insurer Cowbell taps Gerry Power as Australia general manager
Cyber insurer has been building out its business in Australia with the backing of Zurich Insurance.
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- May 15 2026
Delta Insurance New Zealand hires Petr Dorofeev as tech, cyber product lead
He joins the MGA in Auckland from Suncorp.
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- May 14 2026
Victoria bushfires claims tally hits 4,700 amid ‘long road to recovery’: ICA
January's bushfires were the worst for the insurance industry since the 2019-20 season known as Black Summer.
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- May 14 2026
Tasmania presses ahead with scaled-back TasInsure plan
Insurer will be set up as a government-owned, not-for-profit statutory authority rather than an insurer as was proposed earlier.
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- May 12 2026
Sompo continues Australia team expansion with addition of Everest’s Sophie Morrison
She joins as a senior property underwriter, based in Sydney, and is the latest underwriter to join from Everest.
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- May 12 2026
Envest names Norm Casamento as head of technical motor claims
Sydney-based Casamento joins from QBE Insurance, where he spent over a decade in claims roles.
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- May 12 2026
IAG targets US$18bn GWP, 15% ROE in ambitious 2030 strategy
Australian insurer plans to serve more than 11 million customers, deliver high single-digit EPS growth and achieve top-quartile shareholder returns.
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- May 12 2026
Australia records US$193.5m in insured losses from 2025-26 tropical cyclone season: ARPC
Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC) chief executive Christopher Wallace says the season was one of the most active in recent years, but that losses remained within expectations.
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- May 11 2026
New Zealand’s Natural Hazard Commission receives almost 200 claims following April storms
Commission says 66% of claims were related to landslide damage, with 34% related to storm and flood damage.
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- May 10 2026
MSIG Australia hires Doron Grossman as claims manager for partner distribution
Sydney-based Grossman brings over 40 years of insurance experience, including almost 18 years at QBE.
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- May 8 2026
Aviso expands Western Australia business with Wray Insurance Services acquisition
Wray Insurance Services provides brokerage services for a broad range of industries including civil and construction, engineering, mining and surveying, and agriculture and forestry.
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- May 8 2026
Kamran Shah joins Axa XL in Australia as senior cyber risk consultant
Hisprevious work includes manging cyber security operations for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar.
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- May 7 2026
Tokio Marine GX ‘treading carefully’ on Singapore entry as market softens, chairman says
Tokio Marine Holdings' green insurance unit is gaining traction in the green transition insurance market – yet finds itself at a 'crossroads', Fraser McLachlan tells InsuranceAsia News.
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- May 6 2026
New Zealand faces ‘pockets of vulnerability’ from rising home insurance costs: RBNZ
Rising premiums due to increasing rebuild costs, climate change and better modelling and retreat of insurers from certain areas are likely to cause financial instability, central bank says.
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- May 6 2026
Sedgwick Australia appoints Simon Kay as CEO, Kimberley Daley as COO
Interim CEO Phil van Zyl will resume his focus on leading the New Zealand business.
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- May 5 2026
AIG Australia hires Marsh veteran Carrisa Chung as underwriter for commercial property
Perth-based Chung has been working at Marsh since 2006, most recently as divisional manager for client services for Local Government Insurance Scheme, a mutual protection scheme of West Australian government.
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- May 4 2026
Australia’s ATC acquires Frontier Global to expand financial lines, London market footprint
Co-founders Sophie Fraser and Joel Pridmore will continue to lead the business under the BP Marsh-backed MGA.
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- May 4 2026
Suncorp New Zealand hires Walter David as senior construction, engineering underwriter
He was formerly with Chubb for almost three years, most recently as a casualty lines underwriter.
