Strathearn Insurance Brokers

Two experienced insurance brokers have formed a new firm that plans to target the top end corporate market in Western Australia.

Colin Todhunter and John Koeppler have joined Strathearn Insurance Brokers as managers. Both Mr Todhunter and Mr Koeppler will work in the firm’s expanding mining and construction division.

GLOBAL insurance broker Aon has lost a significant number of its senior management in recent times with some employees jumping ship to join the ranks of key competitors in the insurance broking arena.

Austbrokers Holdings has expanded its insurance underwriting agency business with the purchase of majority shareholdings in Perth-based Lawsons Underwriting Australasia and Melbourne-based Guardian Underwriting Services.

Twenty years after being established in controversial circumstances, insurance broking firm Strathearn is eyeing some big potential changes.

Strathearn Insurance Brokers has become the second big player in the sector to change hands this year, after US-based Arthur J Gallagher acquired the Perth firm for an estimated $60 million.

Australian Reliance has become the third major insurance broker in Western Australia to change hands in the space of five months, with newly listed company PSC Insurance Group agreeing to buy the Perth-based group.

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