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Allianz transfers global commercial cyber portf...

Allianz Commercial plans to transfer its standalone commercial cyber insurance portfolio to Coalition under a multi-year global arrangement that will make Coalition its exclusive partner for commercial cyber business. The transaction, ...
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IBANZ Forum

Residential vs commercial

NHI/FENZ

QUESTION: An insured builds a self-contained home. The building is intended to be lived in by the insured (owner-occupied). It is 100% residential use. It is a freestanding home that is not attached to any other building. It has it...
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Wrong Range Rover cancelled

Commercial Fleet/Vehicle

QUESTION: We have a client with a number of vehicles insured with the same insurer.  He had two Range Rovers, both insured, sold one and instructed us to cancel cover on it.  He advised the wrong rego. so the Range rover ...
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Claim excess

Commercial Fleet/Vehicle

QUESTION: The insured makes a motor claim which is accepted by the insurer. Given the type of claim, the claim falls under a section 1 automatic policy benefit which is sub-limited to $5,000 in the policy wording. This again is...
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Compliance or Competitive Advantage? CoIA is a...

To adapt to the upcoming Contracts of Insurance Act (CoIA), will your organisation be adding layers to cope, or will you re-design work to perform? How much will your approach really cost your business? Will...
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A storm every eight days: Weather claims spike ...

New data released recently reveals a record 46 storms over the past 12 months, driving a sharp rise in claims. Phil Gibson, AMI, State and NZI CEO, says: “Between autumn 2025 and summer 2026, our claims teams supported...
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Privacy Act changes: Guidance for brokers

On 1 May 2026, changes to the Privacy Act came into force. These changes directly impact how and when you share personal information with third party providers (such as insurers, underwriting agencies, loss adjusters, claim repairers,...
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More storms, more claims, more reasons to have ...

As a small island nation New Zealand has always lived with weather risk, but industry tracking shows storm-related claims were up more than 250% in the 12 months to February 2026. Storms struck somewhere in New Zealand roughly once...
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Vero is accelerating to back brokers in a chang...

A look into Vero’s countrywide Broker Roadshow by Jane Brewer, Executive Ge...

Insurance has always been an industry shaped by change. But right now, that change feels like it’s accelerating in every direction at once. A 219% increase in weather-related claims volumes year-on-year 1 . Nearly $9 billion in...
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From recovery to resilience - our evolving roles

Historically, insurance has enabled recovery after an event. That role remains critical. But as QBE Pacific CEO and Managing Director, Jonathan Groves has consistently said, the most valuable dollar in the system is not the one spent...
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