{"id":867027,"date":"2026-08-24T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867027\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:40:21","slug":"bom-confirms-eastern-australias-storm-period-has-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867027\/","title":{"rendered":"BOM confirms eastern Australia&#8217;s storm period has opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three areas are worth addressing at renewal or mid-term review before the season is further advanced. First, sums insured on commercial property and residential clients should be checked against current replacement costs &#8211; rebuild costs have continued rising and underinsurance that was marginal two years ago may now be material on a hail or storm repair. Second, fleet operators with significant outdoor or hail-exposed vehicle stock should have their specific cover conditions reviewed, as some fleet policies carry per-event deductible structures that absorb more of a mass-hail event than clients expect. Third, catastrophe capacity across the portfolio is worth reviewing in the context of a season that, based on 2025 precedent, can produce multiple events in rapid succession &#8211; a pattern that tests not just individual policy limits but the aggregate claims handling capacity of the insurers on the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three areas are worth addressing at renewal or mid-term review before the season is further advanced. First, sums&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,435965,44],"class_list":["post-867027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-storm-hail-season-2026-bom-severe-weather-warning-australia-catastrophe-insurance-losses","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}