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2025 marks 120 years of FMG Advice and Insurance in New Zealand's rural communities.

The Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme (IFSO Scheme) received a record number of enquiries in the past year - close to 5,000, a 21% increase on the previous year.

As storms and flooding continue to batter the East Coast, the Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman has issued advice for those impacted and looking to claim with their insurer.

Climate change presents a wholly different and more persistent challenge for the insurance sector and its customers than the recent pandemic, supply chain issues and inflation.

AMI, State and NZI Insurance say they are actively supporting customers impacted by the heavy rain in Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough last week.

Leading New Zealand rural insurer, FMG says nesting birds continue to account for around $700,000 worth of tractor fire claims each year.

Following the November 2016 Kaikoura earthquake many similar issues to the 2013 Seddon earthquake have re-occurred.

The country's main farm insurer FMG is encouraging farmers who have suffered quake damage to telephone for advice on making claims.

Toby Gee, from national law firm Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, poses questions he would ask, and the answers he would give, about business insurance and ways to save money and hassle.

New Zealand owned rural insurer FMG has announced an after tax profit of $26.7 million – its sixth consecutive profit.