Local

• Credit card changes spark travel cover disruption
• Sedgwick flags ways to address mental health-related absences 
• Near-record El Nino set to intensify
• El Nino outcomes 'uncertain'

Corporate

• New Finity leadership team settles in
• Shares drop after Suncorp says it's ‘not in talks’
• Axa XL names APAC and Europe client and distribution officer
• Nib concludes travel insurance divestment

Regulatory & Government

• Albanese orders cyber review after OpenAI breach
• Industry makes case for contents insurance exemption
• NSW scheme implements ‘reasonable and necessary’ rule 
• NZ Labour targets ‘junk’ add-on car insurance

Life Insurance

• Funeral insurance, new life code among ASIC priorities
• Compliance committee ‘carefully’ considering code proposals 
• AFCA backs drug death claim denial
• PPS names strategy director, product head

The Professional

• Insurance salaries nudge ahead of broader sector
• NIBA names national charity partner 
• UAC Leadership Academy invites applications
• NT award winners crowned 

Insurtech

• AI boosting GWP, productivity: Accenture
• Drought a misunderstood ‘amplifier’ of claims, industry warned
• Price, inclusion qualifiers too often in ‘smallest text’
• Ravin's AI motor loss to assist Clarion claims team

International

• Zurich claims ‘largest’ specialty mantle after Beazley buyout 
• John Neal takes new role
• Escalating motor litigation fuelling US costs
• AIG promotes chief actuary to CRO

Analysis

• AI is giving insurers time back. What they do with it matters
• Data centre race leaves frameworks behind
• Australia's low-altitude economy is ready for take-off. Are we?
• The new shape of marine war risk