insurance premiums

Insurance premium increases soar well above inflation

17 Jul 18, 3:43pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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CPI data shows kiwis' grumbles over hefty insurance premium hikes are justified
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Disingenuous information from an insurer or ignorance from the media?

22 Jun 18, 3:43pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Public wrongly lead to believe that 97% of Tower's customers will receive home insurance premium decreases due to new quake risk-based pricing changes, Jenée Tibshraeny says
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Vero waters down comprehensive car insurance cover

20 Jun 18, 2:20pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Vero stops offering excess-free windscreen replacement cover in bid to counter soaring motor claims costs
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Storms prompt more insurance premium hikes, says Tower

29 May 18, 12:56pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Tower widens half-year loss off the back of storms and disappointing settlement with reinsurer; Risk-based pricing gets underway
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Insurers scant on detail around transitions to risk-based pricing models

6 Apr 18, 12:37pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Question marks remain over the extent to which further insurance premium hikes flagged for more disaster-prone parts of the country will be offset by decreases in lower risk places
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An interest.co.nz special: NZ's main car insurers compared

9 Feb 18, 6:02am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Insuring your car with one insurer over another could cost you twice as much. But would this see you get more bang for your buck? Jenée Tibshraeny investigates
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Car insurance premiums jump 20% in two years

8 Feb 18, 9:33am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Interest.co.nz got a bunch of car insurance quotes in January 2016. We then got quotes for the same profiles in January this year. Here's what happened to premiums
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Should failed insurers be treated like failed banks?

25 Jan 18, 5:02am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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The NZ Initiative calls for shareholders and policyholders, not taxpayers, to be made to take the hit if an insurer goes belly-up; Industry experts have their hesitations
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Youi explains why it charges married drivers less for car insurance

13 Jan 18, 8:55am

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Youi points to US study that finds marital status is almost as significant in car insurance pricing as age and gender; Says it has never rejected a legitimate claim based on marital status
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Does being married make you a better driver?

11 Jan 18, 11:14am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Youi charges single and divorced drivers 16% to 21% more for car insurance than married drivers. Why? Jenée Tibshraeny shares her view
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Insurers are feeling the pinch from climate change. What does this mean for you?

6 Dec 17, 11:31am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Insurers suffer record losses due to weather events in 2017, but recoup some of these through premium hikes; Reinsurers remain committed to New Zealand
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Reinsurers here to stay, S&P says

13 Sep 17, 7:31am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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With a strong economy, modest insurance premium increases, and the EQC Act review set to benefit insurers, S&P says quakes and cyclones aren't deterring reinsurers from the NZ market
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Property owners beware...

29 Aug 17, 5:06pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Insurance brokers say higher EQC and fire service levies, as well as a changing market post-Kaikoura, could see the cost of insuring some buildings increase by more than 50%
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What's beneath nib's pitch to migrants, millennials and young families

10 Aug 17, 2:21pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Jenée Tibshraeny weighs up whether nib's new health insurance products are using gimmicks to sugar-coat, or substance to justify, price increases
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The insurance sector through the eyes of the Commerce Commission

8 Aug 17, 1:44pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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What the Commerce Commission's ruling on the Vero/Tower merger reveals about the state of New Zealand's insurance oligopoly more broadly
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Concerns levy increases will see insurers lose customers

22 Jun 17, 11:26am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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First NZ Capital suggests a 10% to 20% increase in homeowners' insurance premiums next year will spur them to shop around
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Insurance policyholders to pay 39% more to fund fire and emergency service

30 Mar 17, 5:02am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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New rates set to fund amalgamated fire and emergency service; Changes to see people with home, contents and car insurance pay around $38 more a year
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Insurers accuse Government of '19th century thinking'

16 Mar 17, 9:06am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Insurance Council says the Government consulting on how to levy insurance to fund new fire and emergency service shows how complicated and costly the regime is
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Car owners and Wellingtonians to be hit by insurance premium hikes

23 Feb 17, 7:40am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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IAG commits to employing 'targeted rates increases' in the wake of the Kaikoura quakes; Says it has been hiking motor insurance premiums throughout the country as more car owners are making claims
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You live somewhere risky, you'll pay for it, says IAG

2 Dec 16, 12:02pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

39 comments

IAG's chief risk officer believes Wellingtonians will soon stop being subsidised by insurance policyholders in other parts of the country for living in a quake hotspot
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