AIA NZ is launching AIA Living Severe Trauma, which the company said is a simplified, cost-effective insurance solution designed to support New Zealanders through the most serious medical diagnoses "without the high premiums of traditional comprehensive trauma cover".
New Zealand's medical inflation, which is already among the highest in Asia-Pacific region, continues to surge and in its wake health insurance premiums too rise, at times making health insurance unaffordable.
Podium Underwriting has been launched as a specialist MGA, operating as an appointed representative of Superian Insurance Group.
Over two thirds of the participants in a survey in New Zealand are of the opinion that natural hazards such as earthquakes, flooding, and sea level rise have a significant impact on their property insurance premiums.
The Natural Hazards Commission (NHC) Toka Tu Ake of New Zealand has awarded 13 new research projects to boost natural hazards resilience in the country.
IAG has announced that its New Zealand chief executive, Ms Amanda Whiting, has decided to return to Australia. A recruitment process to appoint a new chief executive for IAG New Zealand has commenced.
Zurich Insurance Group has appointed Ms Megan Shao as chief claims officer, APAC, effective 1 February 2026.
Willis, a WTW business, has appointed Mr Vijay Nair as head of tax insurance for APAC. This newly created role is in Willis' M&A business within the financial, professional and executive risks specialty business.
The Insurance Council of New Zealand (Te Kahui Inihua o Aotearoa) (ICNZ) is supporting new rules that make natural hazard information in Land Information Memoranda (LIMs) clearer, more consistent and easier for New Zealanders to understand.
NorthStandard has named Mr Michael Hustler as its new head of APAC, effective 27 October.