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Dinesh Murali is the chief executive and managing director of Kiwi underwrite...
Tell us about your career so far and how long you’ve been in the insurance market? I’ve been in the insurance business – wholly in New Zealand - for around 15 years. I actually got into the game by accident: I...Feature
Kiwi underwriting agency Delta Insurance Group has restructured its management team as it eyes international expansion. Delta Insurance New Zealand chief executive Craig Kirk is appointed into a new role as director for under...
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Andrew Horne and Nick Frith, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
On Christmas Day last year, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand suffered a cyber attack. The attack involved a malicious actor gaining access to a third party file sharing application named Accellion FTA, which the Reserve Bank used to stor...
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By Mark Taylor Chartered Loss Adjuster, Major & Complex Loss (MCL) Global Pr...
Bushfires are a foreign disaster for New Zealand. Although there have been wildfires in the past, none have been as intense as the recent cases in Australia. The climate in New Zealand is different, and the land isn’t expansive...IFSO Case Study
A massive storm caused damage and flooding to an insured’s house. One of the insured, who was undergoing cancer treatment and immune-compromised, was concerned about living in a damp, damaged house. The insurer...
FSCL Case Study
A client arranged travel insurance for her holiday in Spain through an insurance broker. The broker asked her about the details of her holiday and whether she had any pre-existing medical conditions. The broker did not ask whether...
IBANZ Forum
QUESTION: We have a client who has had two areas of netting damaged, one area slashed and cut, and another just further along has had a section slashed and cut out and the netting taken. The netting is designed to stop...
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Andrew Horne and Nick Frith, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
Class actions, which under our current rules, are representative actions, are now firmly part of the New Zealand legal landscape. They are also of significant interest to insurers, both in terms of their own potential exposure (e.g....IBANZ Forum
QUESTION: A commercial client of mine has a Vehicle Fleet with approx 20 vehicles insured. In December 2020, one of their staff was driving home on a Friday evening, having stopped at a friends house for dinner and a few...
PIQ College
Professional IQ College provided an award late last year to Ivana Vink, the winner of the last KWT Scholarship. The winner had 12 months to take up the Scholarship to undertake the College programme leading to the New Zealand...
