Site Map (Articles) for August - 2026

Date
Title
22 Aug 2026
Harry's £9.5m costs bill: what the Daily Mail ruling really means for litigation insurers
22 Aug 2026
Zurich sets a date for folding ClearChoice into its platform
22 Aug 2026
Two in three AU/NZ workers are financially unwell - and employers are absorbing the cost
22 Aug 2026
NRMA opens second round of climate resilience grants as mitigation spending draws wider scrutiny
21 Aug 2026
Steadfast signs binding deal with US consortium
21 Aug 2026
APRA sharpens insurer scrutiny on AI, cyber and climate risk
21 Aug 2026
TAL creates chief customer and health officer role as mental health claims double in five years
21 Aug 2026
Record El Niño arrives as reinsurance pricing hits cycle lows
21 Aug 2026
Broker referral pathways in focus as hawking rules tighten
21 Aug 2026
IAG's broker growth lag is deliberate, not a retreat
21 Aug 2026
Why global insurers are rebuilding their life insurance books
21 Aug 2026
Quest Hotels breach puts vendor liability under the microscope
21 Aug 2026
Medibank's insurance arm barely grew while its clinics surged
20 Aug 2026
Cadillac F1 owner denies sale talk as insurance probe widens
20 Aug 2026
Zurich lands ClearView, adding a third brand to its life insurance stable
20 Aug 2026
Bupa’s reform push lands in a PHI market under structural stress
20 Aug 2026
Insurance moves: Zurich, Cowbell, Meridian Lawyers
20 Aug 2026
Inside the format ANZIIF built to avoid another panel-heavy conference
19 Aug 2026
Tech training can exacerbate employee burnout: Canadian study
19 Aug 2026
Regulators warned licensees. Now scammers are testing whether they listened
19 Aug 2026
Are brokers asking clients if they drive for Uber?
19 Aug 2026
Gallagher Re creates digital risk unit as AI reshapes accumulation
19 Aug 2026
Former ACC chief to lead NSW workers comp regulator - and her track record signals what is coming
19 Aug 2026
What brokers value most is now shaping insurer reputations market-wide
19 Aug 2026
Mental health claims are reshaping life insurance – and advisers are on notice
19 Aug 2026
HDI Global Australia hits 230 international programmes with new Seoul office
19 Aug 2026
Revealed – best cyber insurance providers in Australia for 2026
19 Aug 2026
Best Cyber Insurance Providers in Australia | 5-Star Cyber
18 Aug 2026
Soft market pain has crossed the Tasman and it's tricky right now
18 Aug 2026
NSW defects insurance framework passes - but no product has cleared approval yet
18 Aug 2026
Allianz's farm pack overhaul exposes rural insurance's real battleground
18 Aug 2026
Cash flow squeeze persists across Asia-Pacific, new Aon benchmarking shows
18 Aug 2026
Crawford Australia names four new leaders
18 Aug 2026
Steadfast Foundation marks 15 years of giving
18 Aug 2026
Arch Insurance Australia hires senior D&O underwriter
18 Aug 2026
Aon CFO departs as broker reaffirms 2026 guidance
18 Aug 2026
Steadfast consortium bid advances as exclusivity extended to August 21
18 Aug 2026
New IAG study: 7,850 casualties preventable if drivers kept ADAS on
18 Aug 2026
Mental health now drives one in three TPD claims: AIA data
18 Aug 2026
Insurers push premium rises as ASIC scrutiny intensifies
18 Aug 2026
Industrial cyber incidents climb 12% as cover gap widens
18 Aug 2026
Victoria apprenticeship licensing bill sparks employer backlash
18 Aug 2026
Ditch the spreadsheets: Does commercial property insurance have a data problem?
17 Aug 2026
Moody's pushes for near-term framework to translate climate risk into credit terms
17 Aug 2026
Talanx posts record H1 profit as HDI beds in its Australian specialty push
17 Aug 2026
Former AMP chief joins Zurich board as insurer chases top-five ambitions
17 Aug 2026
The insurance side of delivery driver mandate still doesn't have a price tag
17 Aug 2026
$900m Aussie deal sees major losses for international insurer
15 Aug 2026
Insurance market answers brokers' asbestos cover gap for tradies and property owners
15 Aug 2026
Major fire claim tests business continuity cover
15 Aug 2026
Disability hiring push meets insurance's talent crunch
15 Aug 2026
ASIC moves to preserve claims-handling relief for brokers
15 Aug 2026
Gallagher Bassett names SA GM as claims model expands
15 Aug 2026
Private health device costs leave $1.1 billion savings gap
14 Aug 2026
QBE lifts adjusted profit to $1.03 billion in half-year result
14 Aug 2026
A sanctioned Russian insurer has quietly emerged behind the salvage of the tanker rotting off Oman
14 Aug 2026
Agencies flag AI, in-person service and compliance at UAC Market Exchange
13 Aug 2026
CHU takes double at ANZIIF awards as Marsh, NobleOak and Coalition also recognised
13 Aug 2026
Australia’s insurers begin pricing resilience. Brokers need to keep up
13 Aug 2026
Marsh names Chetna Gulati-Kapoor global chief claims officer
13 Aug 2026
Clients are buying cyber insurance. That does not mean they are covered
13 Aug 2026
Private health reform risks moving costs around rather than cutting them
13 Aug 2026
Arch takes affirmative cyber position as management liability platform race grows
13 Aug 2026
TAL data confirms mental health as life insurance’s defining claims problem
13 Aug 2026
IAG posts $1.02 billion profit as intermediated growth lags direct arm
13 Aug 2026
CUSMA breakdown could cost Canada over 100,000 jobs: report
13 Aug 2026
Lithium-ion battery risk keeps marine insurance brokers alert
13 Aug 2026
Allianz Partners expands Foodbank partnership as student food insecurity persists
13 Aug 2026
Brokers on Underwriting Agencies 2026 survey now open
12 Aug 2026
Bloomfield was a warning. National data confirms it wasn’t an outlier
12 Aug 2026
Government intervention on broker commissions moves from threat to deadline
12 Aug 2026
Asia-Pacific data centre growth is outrunning its insurance cover
12 Aug 2026
General insurance complaints hit a third record – brokers are not driving them
12 Aug 2026
Gig worker personal accident order is enforceable, mandatory – and undefined
12 Aug 2026
Private health audits expose a fault line in provider contracts
12 Aug 2026
Suncorp profit falls 40% as it reshuffles top team
11 Aug 2026
QBE’s board renewal carries a message for broker partners
11 Aug 2026
Insurers tell climate body: emissions focus alone won’t protect the market
11 Aug 2026
Sydney Airport near-miss exposes aviation liability gaps for brokers
11 Aug 2026
Six-year-low catastrophe losses aren't the reassurance they look like
11 Aug 2026
RACT named interim TasInsure partner as state insurer model scrapped
11 Aug 2026
NTI’s plain-language vessel launch reflects a trend already underway in the market
11 Aug 2026
Appeals court keeps Meta, Google and TikTok on the hook over young users
11 Aug 2026
A sanctioned tanker is rotting off Oman's coast, and no insurer has stepped up to pay for it
11 Aug 2026
ASIC cracks down on car insurance: what it means for brokers
11 Aug 2026
AAMI loses bid to overturn driver's PTSD impairment finding
11 Aug 2026
Full Federal Court ends QBE and Lloyd's COVID business interruption class actions
10 Aug 2026
The AI agent that hacked a gym – and the cover that may not respond
10 Aug 2026
The graduate hiring model that built insurance is breaking down
10 Aug 2026
Insurers thought the threat to cyber was bad from AI. Now even OpenAI is scared
10 Aug 2026
Financial services bans hit five-year high – and insurance is next
10 Aug 2026
Record SA rainfall hits a claims pipeline that hasn’t cleared
10 Aug 2026
General insurance claims handling just got a published rulebook
10 Aug 2026
BHSI Australia adds marine and professional lines cover as Berkshire's reinsurance arm strengthens
10 Aug 2026
Rates keep falling, but car, casualty and D&O show where the soft market is fraying
08 Aug 2026
RedSky joins Epsilon as compliance load reshapes underwriting
08 Aug 2026
Third-party breaches push brokers toward vendor risk
08 Aug 2026
Mental health reforms shift risk for NSW businesses
08 Aug 2026
Australia's new merger regime faces its first insurance test in three weeks
08 Aug 2026
Cancer is reshaping Australia's life insurance claims – and insurers are investing accordingly
08 Aug 2026
Insurance moves: Bupa, Barry Nilsson and Moray & Agnew
07 Aug 2026
AXA XL just bought the vendor half of every cyber panel it sat on
07 Aug 2026
AIG's Q2 looks solid. International brokers should read the detail
07 Aug 2026
Allianz's record result and a new travel deal - what Australian brokers should take from both
07 Aug 2026
Canopius grows profit while cutting Bermuda contracts on price
07 Aug 2026
Final countdown for Insurance Brokers Code of Practice
07 Aug 2026
Critical minerals risk is physical, not just geopolitical
07 Aug 2026
Court rules against Allianz on whether surgery counts as an injury
06 Aug 2026
OpenAI's AI models teamed up to hack their way online. Then Meta admitted a breach of its own
06 Aug 2026
Liberty Mutual posts US$2.6 billion quarter as cats drop, but core costs rise
06 Aug 2026
The definitions behind home insurance denials are broken – and still unfixed
06 Aug 2026
ASIC’s reporting crackdown raises stakes for corporate group compliance
06 Aug 2026
Full Federal Court ends COVID-19 business interruption class action era
06 Aug 2026
NSW apartment defect data points to a coming insurance market shift
06 Aug 2026
The flood cover gap a broker witnessed is now a Suncorp research priority
06 Aug 2026
Swiss Re P&C hits 76.7% combined ratio but pricing gap widens
06 Aug 2026
Zurich posts 13% BOP growth and US$3.5bn net income in H1 2026 as ClearView approaches close
06 Aug 2026
ACCC rejects insurers' plan to standardise wear and tear terms
06 Aug 2026
Why ANZIIF has built a summit no other ANZ insurance event delivers
06 Aug 2026
Here's why the hiring process is facing a trust problem
06 Aug 2026
Brick by digital brick: Can AI rebuild trust after a disaster?
05 Aug 2026
AI has changed the cyber threat. Has your clients’ cover kept up?
05 Aug 2026
Brokers gain street-level crash data on Australia’s worst road jurisdiction
05 Aug 2026
Samoa dengue: the coverage question brokers cannot leave to claims time
05 Aug 2026
WA broker market gains local Market Lane presence for the first time
05 Aug 2026
Beazley's profits halve as cyber prices and Middle East squeeze the market
05 Aug 2026
Multi-state winter storm opens concurrent claims window for brokers
05 Aug 2026
Barrenjoey mandated to find capital partner for Clearlake, AFR reports
05 Aug 2026
How broker pain points helped drive Allianz's farm pack overhaul
04 Aug 2026
NSW brokers face a premium gap that policy – not risk – created
04 Aug 2026
Record AFCA complaints mask a worse story in insurer compliance data
04 Aug 2026
Third Hormuz incident in 48 hours puts underwriters back on alert
04 Aug 2026
Ignite Specialty Risk lands in Sydney with a legally trained underwriter
04 Aug 2026
Brokers face exposure as home sum insured gaps widen
04 Aug 2026
CTP schemes diverge as rural road toll defies vehicle safety gains
04 Aug 2026
Benign US weather drags on Crawford even as overseas margins jump
04 Aug 2026
Moody's: retail P&C distribution faces the fastest AI disruption of any financial services segment
04 Aug 2026
Brokers' cyber problem: clients understand it, won't buy it
04 Aug 2026
Drones, EVs and autonomous tractors reshape farm insurance
03 Aug 2026
The AI claims gap brokers can no longer afford to ignore
03 Aug 2026
Insurance moves: Relm Insurance, Moray & Agnew
03 Aug 2026
PHI rebate bill pits Treasury against actuaries and the states
03 Aug 2026
Patient records exposed as GP network breach reaches dark web
03 Aug 2026
Steadfast extends exclusivity as $7.7 billion takeover bid advances
03 Aug 2026
NIBA leaders pay tribute to broking giant Tim Wedlock
01 Aug 2026
Why brokers can't ignore environmental risk anymore
01 Aug 2026
High-net-worth cover is no longer just about the house

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