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UNDERWRITING AGENCIES
QBE acquires Phil Duncan’s UAA
QBE HAS PURCHASED Underwriting Agencies of Australia (UAA) one of Australia’s longest operating underwriting agencies.
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Roy Nahas chairs Underwriting Australia
ROY NAHAS, a well-known QBE executive, has become executive chairman of Underwriting Australia, underwriting agency.
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TREND
Australian market prone to change
THE AUSTRALIAN insurance market remains more susceptible to change following a year of sustained global economic volatility, according to Scott Leney of Marsh.
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WHO’S GOING WHERE
Terry Paradine chairs Zurich Australia
TERRY PARADINE, one of the great driving forces of insurance broking in Australia in the last two decades of the 20th century, is the new chairman of Zurich Financial Services Australia.
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Napier runs Willis corporate risks
FORMER NEW ZEALANDER Harley Napier is the new managing director – corporate risks for Willis Australasia, based in Melbourne.
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Michael Gill shares Independence Day
RENOWNED INSURANCE lawyer Michael Gill shares his Independence Day with the USA today as he retires after an almost 4 decade career with DLA Phillips Fox and its predecessors.
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FIRE SERVICES TAX
Victoria’s latest grab to hit insureds
THE LATEST FIRE services levy rise in Victoria has been brand discriminatory, unjust and iniquitous.
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No transparency in insurance levy
THE VICTORIAN Government’s aim for transparency in fire services funding by taxing insureds has not worked, according to Alastair Mitchell, managing principal of Risk & Insurance Consulting Services.
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How the Victorian system imposes
THE LATEST fire service levy rates that the Victorian Government put into effect from July 1, this week, left the southern state clearly a world leader in imposts on its citizens who are responsible enough to insure in certain vital classes.
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NIBA ‘outraged’ at Victorian FSL
NIBA HAS come out in sympathy with insurance buyers in criticising the Victorian Government’s latest increase of the fire services levies (FSL) on insurance premiums
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And many more inside

THIS ISSUE> THE PEOPLE> Phil Duncan, Terry Ibbotson, Tony McRae, Roy Nahas, Kerry Henry, Scott Leney, Terry Paradine, Nancy Milne, David Smith, Harley Napier, Adam Garrard, Michael Gill, Alastair Mitchell, Noel Pettersen, Tim Holding, Joe Willis, John Trowbridge, Robert Samut, Nicholas Scofield and many more.

THE ORGANISATIONS> QBE Australia and Group, UAA, Underwriting Australia, Mars and MMC Asia Pacific, Zurich Australia, Willis A’sia, DLF Phillips Fox, Victorian Government, NSW Govt, IPART, NIBA, Claims Solutions, APRA, Barry & Nilsson, Allianz, Ethisphere Institute, BestWeek, Lloyd’s, Standard & Poor’s, PMI, Aon Consulting and many more.

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