Insurance Sector

Trudi-Ann Mercurio has been promoted to Senior Associate at South Australian law firm Finlaysons. She has more than seven years’ experience and specialises in insurance and civil litigation, in particular asbestos and motor accident claims.

Philippine officials conceded Wednesday that there was little hope of finding any survivors among 71 people still buried in landslides set off by a powerful earthquake, as jittery residents stayed away from their homes amid a flurry of aftershocks. Soldiers, rescue volunteers and villagers using picks and shovels have not found anyone alive under concrete [...]

The US Department of Justice says that, at least back  in 2006, there were over 7.2 million people  in prison in America. While that number includes people on probation or parole, its a staggering figure and means that roughly 1 in every 32 Americans are guests of the state in one way or another. According [...]

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has received 650 disputes concerning the Queensland floods, Cyclone Yasi and the Victorian floods. In the first six months of this year, it received 482 complaints regarding the Queensland floods, 116 relating to the Victorian event and 52 for Cyclone Yasi. FOS says in its annual report released this morning [...]

Conoco Phillips Corp. has appealed a $15.2 million jury award to an oil and well drilling worker who claimed have gotten lung disease from exposure to asbestos. The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case on Jan. 30. In 2010, a Jones County jury ruled for Troy Lofton in his personal injury [...]

A somewhat whimsical survey by Swinton, the leading motorcycle insurance brokerage in the UK, indicated that if Santa ran into problems with his eight tiny reindeer and mounted up on a motorcycle, hed saddle up on a classic Harley Davidson. Or to be more precise, a Holly Davidson. Slightly more than 60 per cent of [...]

Auto insurance is intended to protect drivers in the event of an accident. Your auto insurance coverage will help you pay for damages and injuries caused by your driving, as well as payments for your own injuries and damages in some situations. Therefore, it is important to ensure you have all of the coverage you [...]

Major broker group Austbrokers expects premium increases in the SME sector and is already seeing significant rises in domestic classes, CEO Lach McKeough told last week’s AGM. He says the broker market will continue to consolidate in 2012, providing opportunities for Austbrokers, which has $20 million available for acquisitions. “There is also increased competition emerging [...]