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- January 26 2026
Marsh expands data centre facility to Australia, New Zealand, raises limit to US$2.7bn
Nimbus now provides coverage, inclusive of delay in start‑up and business interruption, for major data centre construction projects in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, Canada, and Europe.
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- January 20 2026
Allied World names Mark Chisholm as lead underwriter for Australia property division
Melbourne-based Chisholm previously spent over 11 years at CGU Insurance.
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- January 20 2026
Unprecedented AI‑led data centre surge tests APAC’s capacity as hyperscale builds accelerate
Wave of developments are stretching traditional underwriting limits, intensifying aggregation concerns, and pushing insurers, brokers and investors toward more specialised engineering insight, alternative capital and bespoke risk‑transfer structures.
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- January 19 2026
Ben Williams returns to Aon Australia as national practice leader for housing
Canberra-based Williams returns to broking having been on the client side for the last three years.
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- January 15 2026
Siddharth Verma joins Axa XL’s India underwriting team as assistant property underwriter
Mumbai-based Verma joins from Marsh India, where he had worked in the facultative reinsurance team for property and construction underwriting since February 2022.
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- January 13 2026
FM increases capacity for Intellium clients to US$5bn to meet growing data centre demand
Commercial property insurer says it will offer 'unprecedented support for its clients' with the enhanced limits.
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- January 6 2026
Swiss Re CorSo Australia taps Allianz’s Sean McCaffrey as senior property underwriter
Sydney-based McCaffrey previously worked at Allianz Australia for almost 15 years, most recently as a senior property underwriter.
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- January 5 2026
Fac reinsurance MGA Pinnacle Underwriting promotes Benjamin Mogford to ANZ head of property
Melbourne-based Mogfold joined Pinnacle in 2022 as deputy head of property and energy for ANZ following his over four-year stint at Zurich.
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- January 5 2026
HDI names Kenneth Law as North Asia property underwriting manager
He takes over from Eric Fung, who will retire in June.
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- January 2 2026
Strong capacity, growth appetite drive favourable 1.1 renewals outcomes: Howden
APAC's risk-adjusted pricing for loss-free XoL programs generally falls by 10-20%.
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- December 22 2025
Wang Fuk Court fire insurance payouts exceed US$33m: HKIA
General insurers have processed 1,038 clams with total payout of around US$26m in the three weeks since the fire, the regulator said.
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- December 9 2025
Aaron Shead becomes head of property for Chubb’s overseas general insurance business
He has been with the US insurer for over 25 years in Asia, Bermuda and the UK.
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- December 8 2025
‘China Taiping good enough on its own’ after Wang Fuk Court fire, HKIA CEO Clement Cheung says
About 10,000 active life insurance policies from 35 insurers and 1,800 property policies from 35 insurers have been identified as having been issued to residents, he adds.
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- December 2 2025
Berkley Re Asia elevates Si Wei Tay to head of claims, Billy Kwan to property and business support head
Singapore-based duo held the positions of senior reinsurance claims officer and underwriting manager, respectively, before the promotions.
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- December 2 2025
HDI Global promotes Ashlee Bradley to property underwriter
Perth-based Bradley has been with HDI for over five years.
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- November 17 2025
Hanwha on the hook as lead insurer for E-Land’s South Korea warehouse fire: reports
- Property & Casualty
- South Korea
- Property
- Claims
- DB Insurance
- Hanwha General Insurance
- Hyundai Insurance
- KB Insurance
Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance, DB Insurance, KB Insurance, and Heungkuk Fire & Marine Insurance are other co-insurers of the building, with total policy limits of around US$261m.
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- October 23 2025
Asia insurance rates fall for seventh straight quarter: Marsh
Property, casualty, finpro, and cyber lines all saw rate reductions amid strong insurer competition and evolving risk landscapes, according to Marsh’s Global Insurance Market Index.
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- October 23 2025
Pacific insurance rates drop 11% in Q3, led by property: Marsh
Globally, commercial insurance rates continued to soften in Q3 2025, with the Pacific region recording the steepest declines.
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- October 22 2025
Sompo appoints Linda Ng as head of property & multi-lines for Singapore
Ng joins from MSIG Asia, where she served as vice president for reinsurance and claims underwriting, and will report to Li Lian Soong, Sompo's head of property for APAC.
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- October 7 2025
Christoph Spichtig to lead Ageas Re’s APAC property underwriting
Zurich-based Spichtig joined Ageas Re as lead underwriter for Asia Pacific in September following over 17 years with Scor.
