Revealed – Insurance Business Australia Awards 2024 excellence awardees

Revealed - Insurance Business Australia Awards 2024 excellence awardees

Revealed – Insurance Business Australia Awards 2024 excellence awardees | Insurance Business Australia

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Revealed – Insurance Business Australia Awards 2024 excellence awardees

“A timely reminder of the great work”

Insurance News

By
Daniel Wood

After a round of nominations, Insurance Business is proud to announce the excellence awardees for the Insurance Business Australia Awards 2024.

One excellence awardee from each category listed below will be selected by our judges as the winner. All the winners will be announced and honoured on May 3 at The Fullerton Hotel in Sydney.

A good time to celebrate

Daniel Lukich (pictured below) thinks it’s a good time to celebrate what the industry does well.

“Recent events have placed claims performance under the spotlight with the sector experiencing more than its fair share of negative press,” said Lukich who is sales and strategic relationship manager at AAMC. “This award is a timely reminder of the great work that goes on with a claims team, and an opportunity to shine a light on excellence within what has been a challenging period.”

AAMC, one of Australia’s largest providers of motor accident management services, is sponsoring the Claims Team of The Year award.

The 2024 Awards will be a black-tie gala evening at The Fullerton, one of Sydney’s most beautiful and historic buildings.

This year Insurance Business has introduced new categories including: CEO of the Year, Employer of Choice, Philanthropy and Community Service and a Lifetime Achievement prize. There are no excellence awardees for the Lifetime Achievement Award – the winner will be announced on the night.

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Celebrate with industry partners

QBE Australia is sponsoring two prizes: Authorised Representative Network of the Year and the Authorised Representative of the Year awards.

“As our Q nect model is specifically designed to help our Authorised Representatives and brokers achieve their business ambitions, we’re proud to be part of this recognition and look forward to celebrating with our partners,” said Steve Talbot (pictured below), head of Q nect, Partnerships for QBE Australia Pacific.

INSURANCE BUSINESS AWARDS 2024 EXCELLENCE AWARDEES 

Small Brokerage 

Imperium Insurance and Financial Solutions 

Insurance HQ 

Insurance Lab 

Lockmor Insurance Brokers 

National Insurance Brokers 

VIM Cover  

ShieldCover Medium Brokerage 

allinsure 

Bell Partners Insurance 

Clear Insurance 

Elliott Insurance The Green Broker 

Eternity Insurance and Financial Services 

Grace Insurance 

Trade Risk 



 

Large Brokerage 

Aviso WA Insurance Brokers 

BAC Insurance Brokers 

McLardy McShane Insurance Brokers 

National Credit Insurance (Brokers)  

Shielded Insurance 

Young Achiever of the Year 

Gareth Downie, PSC Insurance Brokers 

Hayden Clarke, PSC amgi 

Lara Morgan, allinsure 

Skie Mitchell, Tasmanian Insurance Brokers 

Tim Hardy, MGA Insurance Group Canberra 

QBE Q nect Authorised Representative of the Year 

Frans du Plessis, Grace Insurance 

Peter Chamberlain, allinsure 

Scott O’Neill, CP Insurance Services 

Spencer Hon, Eternity Insurance & Financial Services 

Sumit Sopori, Imperium Insurance and Financial Solutions 


QBE Q nect Authorised Representative Network of the Year 

Community Broker Network 

Insurance Advisernet 

McLardy McShane Insurance Brokers 

Oracle Group Australia 

 Sponsored by QBE Q nect



 

Broker of the Year 

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Deon Locke, Lockmor Insurance Brokers 

Matt Whitley, PSC 

Matthew Bates, Bll Partners Insurance 

Regan Pugh, Elliott Insurance the Green Broker 

Shane Brady, Stone Lane Broking & Risk Advisory 

Tanushree Arora-Sopori, Imperium Insurance and Financial Solutions 

 

Underwriting Agency of the Year 

Agile Underwriting Services 

Blue Zebra Insurance 

CHU Underwriting Agencies 

Clover Insurance 

Emergence Insurance 

GT Insurance 

MECON Insurance 

Underwriting Agencies of Australia 

AAMC Claims Team of the Year 

Allianz Australia 

Berkley Insurance Australia 

CHU Underwriting Agencies 

Emergence Insurance 

Sportscover 

Woodina Underwriting Agency 



 

Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 

Allianz Australia 

Aon 

BizCover 

Crawford & Company (Australia) 

Philanthropy & Community Service – CSR 

allinsure 

Ansvar Insurance 

BizCover 

Stella Insurance 

 

Woman of Distinction 

Aimee Henderson, Grace Insurance 

Claire Burke, CHU Underwriting Agencies 

Shelagh Bock, GT Insurance 

Tanushree Arora-Sopori, Imperium Insurance and Financial Solutions 

Jason Sysouphat, Underwriting Agencies of Australia 

Pamela Beilby, CGU Insurance 

Stephen Carey, Delta Insurance Australia 

Allianz Australia 

Berkley Insurance Australia 

Vero 

Glen Riddell, Berkley Re Asia Pacific 

Michael Wood, Woodina Underwriting Agency 

Peter Chamberlain, allinsure 

Tony Dodd, GT Insurance 

Tony Wheatley, Berkley Insurance Australia 

Outstanding Customer Experience 

AIA Australia 

allinsure 

Bell Partners Insurance 

Berkley Insurance Australia 

BizCover 

Elliott Insurance the Green Broker 

Trade Risk  

Allianz Australia 

Berkley Insurance Australia 

Emergence Insurance  

Best Service Provider – Claims 

ARC Projects 

Credit Clear 

Envista Forensics 

Motorweb 

Sedgwick Australia 

Xceedance 

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Best Service Provider – Insurtech 

Advisr 

BizCover for Brokers 

Curium 

Duck Creek Technologies 

JAVLN 

Kanopi 

Sync Technologies  

Australian Brokerage of the Year 

This award recognises the most outstanding brokerage operation in Australia. The excellence awardees in this category comprise the winners of the brokerage categories: 


Small Brokerage 
Medium Brokerage 
Large Brokerage 

Excellence awardees will be announced on the night. 

This is the highest honour at the Insurance Business Australia Awards. 

This award recognises and celebrates a leading figure who has contributed much to the advancement of the insurance industry in Australia. 

This award will acknowledge someone with an established history and reputation of distinguished service to the insurance profession and who has exhibited leadership and provided inspiration to others in the sector and own workplace, whilst putting the interests of the industry at the top of their priorities throughout their career. 

As mentioned above, there are no excellence awardees for this category. Nominations will be evaluated by the shortlisting team. The recipient of this award will be contacted before the awards and will be revealed at the Insurance Business Awards gala dinner.

Thanks to our supporters 

Thanks to our sponsors for investing in this industry event: AAMC, QBE Australia and ShieldCover, Financial Education and Crawford & Co.

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