'Did you see that Countdown is selling insurance?" a friend emailed last week. My initial response was: "There's nothing new in that."

As we all build our own financial houses and get them in order, they need to be resilient when things happen.

A new insurance report warns that by 2050 nearly one million older Kiwis will be living in disaster-prone areas. So what does that mean for the humble Kiwi bach?

New Zealand supermarket chain Countdown is adding insurance services as it seeks to widen the offering to its 2.7 million weekly customers.

Stella Rimmington Rebecca Kitteridge doesn't have a favourite Bond movie but she does have a favourite Bond: "Sean Connery, classic, he's the one and only Bond for me."

More than 80 per cent of drivers do not leave their details after crashing into a parked car, a new survey has found.

A now-bankrupt insurance broker who shared a kickback with a senior Bunnings manager in order to keep the store's business has been jailed for four years.

Fancy being able to log on to a website, enter a few details and see if you're getting the best price for your car or home insurance?

New Zealand's biggest medical and health insurer has posted a $1.1 million annual loss after a record $694.5 million in claims.

An insurance broker who shared a kickback with a senior manager at Bunnings Warehouse in order to keep the hardware chain's business has today been found guilty.

Wayne Besant (CEO, AIA NZ), this week, presented to the New Zealand Diversity Forum about business and the case for diversity.

Health insurance fraud is a significant problem in New Zealand, adding perhaps $30 million to premiums annually.

The battle for the health and medical insurance market is heating up, as newcomer nib New Zealand takes on the established Southern Cross Medical Care Society

An insurance broker has denied charges he used client funds to finance his lifestyle - and gave an employee of a customer $159k in secret commissions.

The "Beware of Dog" warning took on a whole new meaning for one tourist whose insurance company forked out $100,000 when they suffered broken bones after being knocked over by man's best friend.

Travel may broaden the mind, but it can also debilitate the body through sleep disruption, temperature fluctuations and the bugs that swarm through aircraft cabins on gusts of recycled air.

Q: I saw the CEO of the Financial Services Council on TV talking about an insurance option to protect the loss of KiwiSaver amounts due to a recession. Does this cover have any merit?

Read the fine print to ensure you stay within the insurance policy rules, writes Diana Clement.

More and more US companies are moving part of their pension obligations off their books and into annuities run by insurance companies.

A major insurer has pulled an about-turn on breast reconstruction costs that had left cancer patients financially and physically distressed.

Both women and men need to take responsibility for their finances, and unfortunately insurances are part of that, writes Tamsyn Parker.

Women sometimes get a raw deal when it comes to insurance, for varied reasons. For one, most leave sorting out the insurance to their husbands, writes Diana Clement.

A young entrepreneur behind a business selling submarines has been charged over an attempted $22 million insurance scam.

While it's hard to summon up much sympathy for insurance companies, they also have a few justifiable complaints to make against their customers, writes David Chaplin.