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- August 22 2023
BMS names Tim Hewitt as head of Japan
Hewitt, who has two decades of legal experience, will focus on inbound-outbound M&A activity as growth in the Japanese market accelerates.
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- August 22 2023
AUB Group’s net profit zooms 74% in FY 2023
The Sydney-headquartered broker’s group revenues crossed the billion-Australian-dollar mark as Tysers’ earnings exceed forecasts.
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- August 22 2023
Mitsui Sumitomo pays out US$26m to ispace in lunar insurance claims
The Japanese space startup received the insurance payment on August 18 following the failure of its Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander mission in April this year.
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- August 22 2023
China adds US$69m to flood recovery fund as claims surpass 266,000
The funding will go towards compensation for property losses, damage to crops, animal and poultry farms, commercial forests, houses and agricultural machinery.
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- August 21 2023
Hyundai Insurance’s H1 underwriting income drops 30%
The Korean carrier's total direct premiums grew 4.21% year-on-year to US$6.25bn in the first six months of the year.
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- August 21 2023
IAG’s FY underwriting profit falls A$292m after nat cat miss
IAG's H2 COR in New Zealand was 111.8% as the insurer was hit by Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland floods, as group cat claims at A$1.2bn came in well above its FY 2023 allowance.
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- August 21 2023
Marsh swoops on Australia’s Honan Insurance
The TA Associates-backed specialist broker has reportedly been valued at US$450m.
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- August 21 2023
DPL Insurance to sustain underwriting profitability: AM Best
Underwriting results improved over the past five years, with COR reducing to 77.4% in FY 2023 from 96% in FY 2019.
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- August 21 2023
Australian carriers paid out US$23bn in claims last year: ICA
In 2022, more than 300,000 disaster-related claims were lodged from four declared insurance events across the country, costing more than US$4.4bn in insured losses.
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- August 18 2023
US insurers have US$1.3bn exposure to China Construction Bank letters of credit: AM Best
The Chinese lender has seen a 1,560% year-on-year increase in reinsurance collateral LOCs issued.
