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Suncorp New Zealand is helping children affected by domestic violence stay connected with their schools and online learning through a one-off $100,000 donation to the domestic violence charity, Shine. Suncorp New Zealand has suppor...
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Apex has hired a construction and engineer specialist to provide guidance to clients in that industry. Managing director James McGhie said he had seen the business’s construction and engineering portfolio grow significantly o...
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Insurance customers received $19.7 million to meet losses from the February 2020 floods that led to a state of emergency being declared in Southland, Fiordland and Clutha. The preliminary figures show the severity of the event whic...
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By Rod Severn
When we talk about “ethics” we are referring to a philosophy of dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and...IBANZ Forum
Two people had planned a safari tour to Africa. Both obtained travel insurance policies from the same insurer. A month before their trip, one man got ill and his GP declared that he was unfit to travel for the next three months. ...
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The insured ran an automotive glass repair company. In 2017 his company had to replace 144 windscreens that had sensors in them. The workmen who did the replacements did not recalibrate the sensors after replacing the windscreens. This...
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Question: We have a client insured under a corporate travel policy. One of their staff missed flights and had to get new flights due to a spelling mistake in their name on the tickets. This error cost $4500 to fix. The...
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Question: We have a situation with a leak under the driveway within a residential property. Under the home definition the driveway is included as long as it is within residential boundaries. The client has a leak...
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Question: We are looking at changing general liability providers for a plumbing business. There are no known claims or circumstances likely to give rise to a claim. Due to the nature of the plumbing industry and the...
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Question: The client is a franchise motor vehicle dealer which includes own workshop. They were contracted to carry out a factory recall repair on a tractor which required removal of the motor by the insured and the...
