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Byline: Peter Hannam Sep 12, 2023 (The Guardian Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia estimates that the economic cost of the nation's worst natural disasters [...]

Byline: David Ross Mar 21, 2022 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Insurance companies and their customers are seeking leave to appeal recent Federal Court pandemic test cases in [...]

Byline: Cliona O'Dowd and David Ross Jun 27, 2021 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The insurance industry had sought to overturn a decision in in the NSW Court [...]

Byline: Liam Walsh Mar 28, 2021 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia notes that more than 25,600 insurance claims arising from the [...]

Byline: David Ross Feb 07, 2021 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- University of Sydney economist Michael Blythe and former regulator and insurance executive John Trowbridge have been asked [...]

Byline: Ben Butler Nov 19, 2020 (The Guardian Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia is considering a High Court challenge to the result of a [...]

Byline: David Ross Aug 13, 2020 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia and the Australian Financial Complaints Authority have launched a legal case aimed [...]

Byline: Max Maddison May 28, 2020 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Data from the Insurance Council of Australia shows that insurance claims arising from the 2019-20 bushfire season [...]

Byline: Rachel Pupazzoni Feb 13, 2020 (The New Daily - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Siddharth Parameswaran of JP Morgan says the bushfires season could cost Australia's insurance industry about $2bn, [...]

Byline: James Fernyhough Jan 01, 2020 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia has called for changes to the way that emergency services [...]

Byline: Liz Main Nov 10, 2019 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Damage caused by the latest bushfires across Australia are expected to add to the losses [...]

Byline: Michael McKenna and Mark Schliebs Apr 02, 2017 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Insurers have received more than 13,000 claims in the wake of Cyclone Debbie, according [...]

Global Banking News - 21 December 2018Insurer Allianz (NYSE: AL) has been hit with a large number of claims following a hailstorm in Sydney.The number of claims was so high [...]

Byline: Jake Mitchell Jan 06, 2013 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia has attributed a significant increase in reinsurance costs to recent [...]

Dec 06, 2012 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) oversaw just over 36,000 disputes in 2011-12, according to its latest annual report. The Insurance [...]

This is a media release - distributed by AAP MediaNet NSW Flooding 18 February 2009 The Insurance Council has today participated in briefings with the NSW State Emergency Services in [...]

MELBOURNE, Feb 9 AAP - An insurance task force has been set up to help people who have lost homes in the Victorian bushfires. The Insurance Council of Australia said [...]

MELBOURNE, Feb 9 AAP - An insurance task force has been set up to help people who have lost homes in the Victorian bushfires. The Insurance Council of Australia said [...]

(From Reinsurance) A new code of practice has been introduced by the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), which (according to them) will mean that general insurers will meet higher, measurable [...]

Byline: Mathew Dunckley Jul 27, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has criticised plans to modify the fire services levy [...]

Jul 17, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) During 2004-05 the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has been streamlining its code of practice, which is compulsory for [...]

Jul 06, 2005 (Ad News - ABIX via COMTEX) The advertising sector needs to learn from the recent controversy surrounding the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA). Three advertising agencies are [...]

Jun 21, 2005 (Ad News - ABIX via COMTEX) The advertising sector is very unhappy with the actions of the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA). In early 2005, the ICA [...]

(From Post Magazine) After four years of traumatic losses and major bankruptcies, the Australian non-life market - helped by far-reaching regulatory reform - is regaining confidence, recovering profitability and a [...]

Aug 12, 2004 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has warned the local industry of the danger posed by unregistered foreign insurers. The ICA [...]

Jun 08, 2004 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian insurance industry is going to improve its service standards. On 8 June 2004, a draft code of [...]

(From Insurance Day) Byline: Mike Hanley, Sydney TWELVE months on from the release of the report into the A$5.3bn (US$4bn) collapse of HIH Insurance, Australia's insurance industry is claiming the [...]

Feb 16, 2004 (Australian Banking & Finance - ABIX via COMTEX) The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has proposed a package of regulatory reforms that would protect consumers against corporate [...]

Dec 21, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australia's insurance regulator is under increasing pressure to regulate unauthorised foreign insurers. The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) on [...]

Dec 17, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Government has been asked to give greater protection to insurance policyholders. The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) also wants [...]

Sep 24, 2003 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Government has announced that there will be a review of the Insurance Contracts Act. The review will look at [...]

Jun 26, 2003 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) Insurance companies may increase flood cover premiums for Brisbane waterfront properties or even deny cover. The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) [...]

Jun 23, 2003 (Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has been instrumental in the development [...]

(From Insurance Day) Byline: Symon Ross THE board of the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has elected Promina Group's chief executive and managing director Mike Wilkins as its new president. [...]

May 30, 2003 (Choice - ABIX via COMTEX) The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) estimates that 25% of Australians do not have any home or contents insurance. A further 27% [...]

Apr 27, 2003 (Sunday Mail - South Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) More than 20% of South Australians do not have adequate insurance for personal items. The Insurance Council of [...]

Sep 30, 2002 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) is critical of Queensland's new public liability insurance reforms. ICA executive director, Alan Mason, says [...]

Sep 26, 2002 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) Small business in Australia has been affected by rising insurance premiums. In 2002, the issue of public liability insurance and the cost [...]

Aug 27, 2002 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The Insurance Council of Australia has rejected claims rising insurance premiums are not a result of increased liability court case [...]

Aug 27, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) says the cost of public liability insurance claims continues to outstrip income from [...]

Aug 27, 2002 (The Daily Telegraph - ABIX via COMTEX) The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has revealed insurance companies lost $A500m on liability policies in 2001. According to ICA [...]

Aug 27, 2002 (The Canberra Times ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia has made a submission to the HIH Royal Commission. The Council is keen to see [...]

Aug 22, 2002 (The Courier-Mail ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia's public liability insurance crisis could be nearing an end with a major insurer announcing a return to the market. Suncorp-Metway's [...]

Aug 20, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) wants the Australian Government to participate in an insurance bail-out fund. In a [...]

Aug 19, 2002 (The Mercury ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian insurers have asked for a Policyholder Protection Scheme to be established in case of another collapse like that of HIH [...]

Aug 19, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has proposed a new scheme to protect policyholders. It submitted its proposal to [...]