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- August 20 2024
Australia’s FTA Insurance expands public and products liability team with two hires
Both Melbourne-based, Daniel Malic joins the financial lines-focused Lloyd's coverholder as national general liability manager, as Janelle Ferraro joins as general liability underwriter.
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- August 20 2024
Sedgwick names Jennifer Blackwell as senior liability adjuster
Sydney-based Blackwell brings over 30 years of experience to the firm after having worked for leading insurers such as Suncorp Group, and Allianz in Australia.
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- August 20 2024
BHSI ropes in AIG’s Tim Air as executive underwriter for marine, Australasia
Melbourne-based Air has 25 years of experience in leadership and distribution roles across both Australia and New Zealand.
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- August 19 2024
AUB doubles down on UK retail expansion with Movo acquisition
The London-based broker is the second acquisition by the company in the UK after it picked up a 40% stake in AR network Momentum in June this year.
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- August 19 2024
Suncorp Group’s FY 2024 general insurance post-tax profit rises 42% to US$722.3m
Its general insurance results benefitted from strong growth in its consumer insurance, whose profit doubled to US$283.6m, while its New Zealand business tripled to US$118.4m, benefitting from benign nat cat claims compared to FY2023.
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- August 19 2024
Insured losses in 2023-24 flat at US$1.5bn, but number of claims lodged jumped 73%: ICA
The costliest event was the Christmas and New Year storms that hit Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria in December 2023 which caused US$900m in insured losses and nearly 100,000 claims.
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- August 16 2024
Delta Insurance taps Chubb’s Siân Mullane as senior property underwriter
With nearly 30 years of experience, Mullane was most recently a senior property underwriter at Chubb up until June 2024.
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- August 16 2024
McGill and Partners expands Asia Pacific facultative team with two appointments
The broker has hired Sydney-based Brad Racker from Vero and named Rebecca Zacharow in London as associates in the regional fac team.
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- August 15 2024
ICA, Planning Institute of Australia urge governments to overhaul land use planning
In a joint communique, the two industry bodies urge state, local and the federal governments to step up reforms to tackle the country's growing housing challenges compounded by extreme weather risks.
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- August 15 2024
ARPC hires Cameron Hick as head of technical underwriting
Hick has over 25 years of experience in the reinsurance industry across Australia, Switzerland and Germany.
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- August 13 2024
PSC Insurance acquires specialist broker Eastern Prudential Insurance
The low-cost accommodation specialist wholesale broker has joined the Sydney office of the ASX-listed broking group.
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- August 13 2024
Newline continues Sydney expansion with Andrew Yeung hire
Yeung, who has been promoted to Australia head of D&O, will relocate to Sydney from Melbourne and work closely with Nick Beswick, head of professional indemnity.
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- August 13 2024
New Caledonia unrest claims hit global (re)insurers
Allianz reported about US$284m exposure to the event, with its reinsurance arm also seing losses from the event, while Hannover Re and Scor saw EUR90m and EUR42m in claims, respectively.
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- August 13 2024
Sedgwick strengthens Australia liability team with Crawford hire
Sydney-based Filip Damjanovski joined from Crawford & Co where he was a senior liability general adjuster.
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- August 12 2024
Australia’s Colonial First State seeks to add cat bonds to pension portfolio: report
Australian pension fund managers, including Insignia Financial's MLC Asset Management, see robust returns from allocating capital to insurance-linked investments.
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- August 12 2024
QBE elevates Ed Rainsford to chief risk officer, Australia Pacific
Sydney-based Rainsford, who has been with the carrier for almost a decade, joins from the QBE group risk and compliance team where he has been the group chief compliance officer since July 2022.
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- August 12 2024
Mitsui Sumitomo Oceania hires David Hall as head of distribution
Sydney-based Hall joined from Envest where he was head of mergers, acquisitions and advisory for nearly two years from March 2022.
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- August 9 2024
Allianz Australia promotes Scott Langtree to distribution manager for Queensland
Langtree, who has been with the insurer for eight years, will lead a team of account managers to strengthen the group’s relationship and position with its strategic partners.
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- August 9 2024
QBE strikes US$1.6bn loss portfolio transfer deal with Enstar, RiverStone
Enstar’s subsidiary will assume US$376m out of total net loss reserves for US commercial liability and workers' compensation risks, effective July 1, and will provide approximately US$175m of cover in excess of the ceded reserves.
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- August 9 2024
QBE doubles H1 net profit, COR improves 5 percentage points to 93.8%
The insurer's GWP grew 2% to US$13bn for the period, while its underwriting performance benefitted from lower cat claims, stable prior-year reserve development and rate increases.
