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VOLUME 10208, DEC 05 2008 |
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MAIN HEADLINES:
INDUSTRY FIRST
Australian insurance gets own weather trend
AUSTRALIAN CONSUMERS and the insurance industry are about to finally receive their own signals on the weather trend and its effect on insurance.
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Weather rains on premium underwriting
UNCONTROLLABLE WEATHER will increasingly have a major effect on underwriting premiums in Australia.
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BLUEPRINTS
Council fosters consumer resilience
THE INSURANCE Council of Australia is targeting consumer resilience to all the exposures facing every day living as its goal in 2009 and beyond.
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Building and health added to community care
AUSTRALIA’S GENERAL insurance industry could have its care for the community showing up in a more positive light if additions to the Insurance Councils 6 Strategic Blueprints are recognised in the public domain.
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UP-AND-COMER
Paul Dwyer – a new breed of broker
PAUL DWYER is described by his former mentor at OAMPS Brian Austin as an up and comer in the new breed of younger insurance entrepreneurs – and his broking expansion bears this out.
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Partners stay on for life business
RISK ADVICE with original partners is still part of the insurance broking acquisitions by 30-year-old insurance broker and industry entrepreneur Paul Dwyer.
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INSURANCE TAXES
‘We’re becoming tax collectors’- Zurich
ZURICH AUSTRALIA has joined the fight against taxes on insurance in Australia with CEO David Smith declaring “general insurers are being turned into tax collectors”.
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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Rise in warranty and indemnity claims
AON CORPORATION said it was expecting warranty and indemnity insurance claims to rise as company buyers look for ways to recoup some of their purchase price.
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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
PROTECTING CHRISTMAS
Checklist could help save claims
WINNING BROKERS
Focus on producing brokers pays off
GLOBAL BROKING
Aon forms new global unit
ASIA REVIEW
Australia reviewed in big 5 markets
Financial turmoil starts to show in China
MONEY LAUNDERING
Honeymoon over says government
FLEET INSURANCE
Lumley sorts out some figures
WHO’S GOING WHERE
Ex-Suncorp’s Fox at Swiss Re Life
REGULATOR GUIDANCE
ASIC says tell all in reports
E-INSURANCE
Ebix Inc completes another buy
RATINGS
Lloyd’s blue chip star plans 2009 sidecar
Amlin Bermuda suffers some loss
And many more inside ...
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THIS ISSUE> THE PEOPLE> Alex Sanchez, Paul Giles, Kerrie Kelly, Paul Dwyer, Brian Austin, John Dwyer, Alan Wilson, Harvey Tartakover, Bill Brown, Andrew Leonard, Mike Gunnion, Caitlin Gardiner, David Smith, Anka Taylor, Damien Coates, Grahame Chilton, Peter Harmer, Chris Cass, Robert O’Shea, Dennis Fox, Tony D’Aloisio and many more.
THE ORGANISATIONS Insurance Council, PSC Insurance Grp, PCS Tartakover, OAMPS, Wesfarmers, Leonard Brown IB, Coastwide IB, Zurich Australia, Aon Corp, DUAL Australia, AM Best, QBE, Suncorp, IAG, Allianz Australia, Deloitte Forensic, Lumley, Swiss Re Life, ASIC, Ebix Inc, Lloyd’s, Amlin and many more.
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