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Measured floor heights will cut some flood premiums, not the risk (opens the original)
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Flood pricing contains a guess. When an insurer calculates the flood component of a premium, it has to assume how far above ground the building's lowest occupied floor sits, and that assumption "can be 0.3 metres off the ground, 0.5 metres off the ground, 1 metre," according to James Knight (pictured), Aon's head of risk advisory for Asia-Pacific. From January 2027, in Australia, the guess gets replaced by a measurement. Aon and Geoscape Australia are taking first floor elevation data national,
Suncorp executives flew to Tokyo for Tokio Marine talks (opens the original)
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Story Update: October 1 2026: Suncorp has since told the ASX it is not in discussions regarding a takeover and has not received a takeover offer. Read our report on Suncorp's response to the ASX price query. The Suncorp takeover story has moved from bankers getting ready to executives getting on a plane. The Australian's DataRoom column reported on Wednesday that Suncorp is understood to have entered preliminary discussions with Tokio Marine, and that executives from the Brisbane insurer have tr
Risk Rating 2.0 showed what measured floor heights really do (opens the original)
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Flood pricing contains a guess. When an insurer calculates the flood component of a premium, it has to assume how far above ground the building's lowest occupied floor sits, and that assumption "can be 0.3 metres off the ground, 0.5 metres off the ground, 1 metre," according to James Knight (pictured), Aon's head of risk advisory for Asia-Pacific. From January 2027, in Australia, the guess gets replaced by a measurement. Aon and Geoscape Australia are taking first floor elevation data national,
Suncorp denies takeover talks in ASX price query response (opens the original)
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Suncorp has told the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) it is not in takeover discussions and has not received a takeover offer, responding to a price query issued after a jump in its share price and trading volumes. The exchange wrote to Suncorp company secretary Cassandra Hamlin yesterday, citing the movement in SUN securities from a close of $19.05 on September 29 to a high of $20.18 the following day, alongside a significant increase in volume. The query was issued under Listing Rule 18.7,
Electric vehicle uptake is reshaping commercial motor risk (opens the original)
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Asked to name the single biggest challenge in commercial motor insurance, Anthony D'Oca did not pick pricing, capacity or catastrophe exposure. "If I was to have to pick one out of 4 or 5 key factors, it would be in particular the evolution of electric vehicles and their significant acquisition of market share," said D'Oca, general manager commercial and people risk at QBE Australia Pacific. 27,089 battery electric vehicles were sold in Australia during August 2026, representing 24.9 per cent of
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