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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 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 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
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 3 2026
Australia’s cyclone reinsurance pool claims reach US$1bn
Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation’s (ARPC) cyclone pool has expanded significantly since its inception in 2022, according to the latest quarterly statistics.
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- April 30 2026
Perils trims loss estimate for Australia’s East Coast hailstorms
Perils says its loss estimate for the storms had been revised down to US$1.07bn.
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- April 28 2026
MLX Risk Partners taps Mathew Dilley as head of operations
Dilley joins from Aon Benfield in Sydney, where he had been a facultative reinsurance broker since November 2011.
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- April 27 2026
ICA calls on Australian government to establish US$21.6bn flood defence fund
The ICA has made four recommendations to safeguard those vulnerable to extreme flood risk in its submission to an Australian federal inquiry into local government funding.
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- April 24 2026
Suncorp purchases US$1.7bn aggregate reinsurance cover, forecasts 3% GWP growth for FY26
Commencing on June 30, the five-year aggregate reinsurance agreement has an attachment point of US$1.3bn in FY27.
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- April 24 2026
Newline promotes Jack Rowsell to underwriter within Australia liability team
He has been with Newline for over nine years, having joined as an assistant underwriter in June 2016.
