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- October 2 2025
MSI strengthens Oceania leadership with four senior hires
Hajime Takeda elevated as deputy general manager and COO; David Hall, Anna Isenberg and Go Mandai join leadership team
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- October 1 2025
Swiss Re CorSo Australia appoints Anna Khomeini to distribution team
Khomeini joins from HDI Global SE and has nearly two decades of experience across underwriting, portfolio management and broker engagement.
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- October 1 2025
Allstate Underwriting, MSI partner to serve Australia’s SME farm insurance
MSI will provide capacity for Allstate’s ‘farm-pack’ product, offering coverage to property risks and vehicle exposures.
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- October 1 2025
Australia starts consultation on terrorism and cyclone reinsurance legislation
The Treasury has launched a statutory review of the Terrorism and Cyclone Insurance Act 2003, inviting public feedback on the relevance and governance of national reinsurance pools.
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- October 1 2025
Willis promotes Ollie Moore as Pacific head of broking
Moore has been at Willis since 2023 and has played a 'key role' in the growth of its financial and professional risks business in the Pacific.
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- September 30 2025
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred accounts for over 90% of pool claims since inception, ARPC says
The cyclone pool received 101,888 claims from the cyclone that affected Queensland and New South Wales during February and March, totalling to US$650m.
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- September 30 2025
Market Lane launches specialty reinsurance MGA
The Lane Re will offer facultative solutions to the Australian and New Zealand commercial property market, said group CEO David Porteous.
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- September 26 2025
Tower replaces IAG as Westpac New Zealand’s underwriter
Tower will underwrite Westpac’s house, contents, car and vehicle insurance products for an initial term of five years starting from July 1, 2026.
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- September 26 2025
Marsh promotes Maurice Gatto to head of global placement for Pacific
Gatto succeeds Scott Eccleston, who became the broker's head of risk management for the Pacific.
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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 25 2025
New Zealand’s Ando elevates Therese Singleton as CEO, succeeding John Lyon
The Envest-backed insurer also promoted Timothy Riding to the executive team as head of portfolio and underwriting.
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- September 24 2025
Tower raises cat limit to US$536m in FY26 reinsurance renewal
Kiwi carrier switches large individual property risks cover from proportional treaty to XoL structure, estimates lower premium expense.
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- September 24 2025
Marsh ANZ elevates Scott Eccleston to Pacific head of risk management
He has spent more than 20 years of his career at Marsh.
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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.
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- September 23 2025
Australian regulator sues RACQ over misleading renewal comparison pricing
Australian Securities and Investments Commission has alleged that the IAG-owned carrier inflated 'last period premium' in more than 570,000 renewal documents sent to customers between September 2019 and December 2024.
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- September 18 2025
Envest buys additional 36.9% stake in Blue Zebra following Youi’s exit
Youi sold the interest for a total net proceeds of US$30.3 million, although Envest declined to disclose the new total percentage of its stake.
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- September 18 2025
Crawford Australia expands strata team with double appointment
Julio Agati and Ujjwal Gurung are part of Crawford's expansion of its dedicated strata team.
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- September 18 2025
Siân Mullane returns to AIG as senior property underwriter in Australia
She has specialised in property underwriting for most of her career, which has spanned the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
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- September 17 2025
Flood Re 2.0? Australia looks to UK’s blueprint to tackle rising nat cat exposures
Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Daniel Mulino and Insurance Council of Australia CEO Andrew Hall are in London discussing greater resilience to emerging disasters and natural catastrophe risks.
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- September 16 2025
Market Lane assumes Arag legal insurance renewals
Transition will help the insurance group expand its footprint in the specialty insurance sector.
