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Remingtons Insurance Brokers "Remingtons Insurance Brokers Your General Insurance Risk Management Partner"

Remingtons Insurance Brokers is a Ballarat owned and operated General Insurance Brokerage. We prides ourselves on a quality customer experience, while providing information on insurance products, risk management strategies for your business, as well as providing a claims management service.
“Our vision is to provide Risk Management Solutions tailored to our clients individual needs”
Since the establishment of the brokerage in 1982, we have been highly regarded for our strong reputation based on integrity and professionalism. The key to our success has been long standing relationships with both clients and business partners, combined with a genuine concern for your specific insurance needs and knowledge of the insurance markets. Our dedicated team is committed to offer you tailored insurance policies to suit you. We are able to provide advice on a wide range of insurance products, from your business and specialist insurance lines as well as your domestic needs. Remingtons Insurance Brokers also have an Authorised Representative in Geelong, Surf Coast & Bellarine area.

Two small Queensland businesses closed during Cyclone Alfred in March 2025 and claimed the income they lost. A Gold Coas...
20/10/2026

Two small Queensland businesses closed during Cyclone Alfred in March 2025 and claimed the income they lost. A Gold Coast salon shut for three days because public transport stopped and the owner felt a duty to staff. A gin distillery shut on the emergency warnings.

Both claims relied on a prevention of access extension in their business interruption cover. Both were declined, and the Australian Financial Complaints Authority agreed with the insurers. The wording needed an order from a public authority, tied to damage or threat of damage near the premises. Advice to stay home was not an order, and fallen trees near the owner's house were not "in the vicinity" of the salon.

Neither owner did anything wrong. They made safe calls for their people. The lesson is about the wording: some policies respond to an order, some respond to damage nearby, and the two are not interchangeable.

The question to ask before the season is which trigger your own wording uses. We can help you find it.

Sources: Insurance News, Hairdresser's cyclone BI claim fails to make the cut, 19 August 2026; Insurance News, Gin distillery loses cyclone disruption dispute, 1 October 2026.

What does an insurance adviser actually do? Six steps, in the order they happen.We listen to how the business runs and w...
18/10/2026

What does an insurance adviser actually do? Six steps, in the order they happen.

We listen to how the business runs and what would hurt if it stopped. We review the current cover against that picture, including what it does not do. We approach insurers we work with and present the risk properly. We explain what each option does, what it excludes and what it costs. When a claim comes up, we assist with lodgement and insurer communications, and the insurer assesses the claim under the policy terms. Before renewal, we check in so the cover still fits the business it was arranged for.

Cover is subject to insurer underwriting, policy terms, conditions, limits and exclusions.

Which step have you never seen happen?

Seven offices, one way of working. Swipe to see who walks through the door at each Remingtons office, from trades and fa...
15/10/2026

Seven offices, one way of working. Swipe to see who walks through the door at each Remingtons office, from trades and farms in Ballarat to hospitality and marine in Noosa.

Cover is arranged subject to insurer underwriting, policy terms, conditions, limits and exclusions.

Which office is closest to you?

Press record before the season starts.AFAC's Spring 2026 bushfire outlook, released in August, flags increased fire risk...
08/10/2026

Press record before the season starts.

AFAC's Spring 2026 bushfire outlook, released in August, flags increased fire risk in parts of Victoria, north-east and eastern Tasmania, and south-east Queensland. Queensland's storm season is on its way too, and Get Ready Queensland Week runs from 5 to 11 October.

Here's a job for this week that needs nothing more than a phone. Walk through your premises and film it: the building inside and out, machinery and tools, stock, office equipment, and close-ups of serial plates and model numbers. If you ever need to make a claim, a record of what was there beforehand can help you show what you had.

A few things make that record more useful:
1. Save the video somewhere off-site, such as cloud storage, with copies of your policies, your asset list and receipts for larger items.
2. Keep policy numbers and claims contacts where you can reach them away from the premises.
3. Look at your cover before any warnings are issued. The Insurance Council of Australia notes that some insurers may place a temporary embargo on new policies when bushfires are imminent.

Whether a particular loss is covered depends on the policy terms, conditions, limits and exclusions, and on the sums insured you have set. This is general information only and doesn't take into account your objectives, financial situation or needs.

Could you list everything in your workshop, office or storeroom from memory?

Sources: AFAC, Seasonal Bushfire Outlook Spring 2026, 19 August 2026; Insurance Council of Australia, Preparing for bushfire season, 27 November 2024; Get Ready Queensland, Get Ready Queensland Week 2026, accessed 28 September 2026.

Remingtons started in Ballarat in 1982. Today there are Remingtons branches in Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Melbourne, Br...
06/10/2026

Remingtons started in Ballarat in 1982. Today there are Remingtons branches in Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Noosa and Tasmania.

We think insurance works better when the people looking after yours know the area you trade in. A local team can talk through the risks that matter to your type of business in your part of the world, and you can sit down with them in person.

Our teams help with business insurance, commercial motor and fleet, plant and equipment, and professional indemnity. If you need to make a claim, we assist with claim lodgement and insurer communications. Claims are assessed by the insurer in line with the policy terms.

Which town are you in?

04/10/2026

Meet Warwick! One of the original minds behind Remingtons

From day one, his vision helped shape who we are today đź’­

Five things, in the order they usually happen.First we look at what could stop you trading. The shed. The fleet. The con...
01/10/2026

Five things, in the order they usually happen.

First we look at what could stop you trading. The shed. The fleet. The contracts you have signed. The staff who would still need paying if the doors shut for a month. That is a different exercise from reading the policy schedule.

Then we approach insurers on your instructions and put options in front of you. What gets covered, and what sits outside cover, is set by the insurer and written into the policy terms, conditions, limits and exclusions.

If something goes wrong we help you lodge it and we stay on the insurer while the claim is open. The insurer assesses the claim and decides the outcome, so nobody here can promise you one. What we can do is make sure your side of it is documented and that you are not chasing it alone.

The year in between is where things change without the policy catching up. A new truck, a bigger payroll, a second site, a contract with an indemnity clause buried in it. Any one of those moves your exposure months before renewal comes around.

The personal side, home and contents, landlord and private motor, sits at the end of that list on purpose. It is there because the people who run the businesses we look after have houses and cars too.

Swipe for the five.

The people on the other end of the phone.Renewals. Endorsements. Claim files. The twenty minute call where someone works...
29/09/2026

The people on the other end of the phone.

Renewals. Endorsements. Claim files. The twenty minute call where someone works out whether the new trailer made it onto the schedule and, if it did not, what happens now.

It is unglamorous work and it is done by actual people, in Ballarat, Brisbane, Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Geelong, Noosa and Tasmania. Most of what they do never appears anywhere a client can see it, which is fair enough, and it does mean the job is mostly invisible until the week it is not.

That is who picks up.

Ten years is a long time to keep choosing the same people.Jack Dodd has run JV Dodd Building through equipment purchases...
27/09/2026

Ten years is a long time to keep choosing the same people.

Jack Dodd has run JV Dodd Building through equipment purchases, new vehicles and more staff, with a few claims along the way. Eleni has been across his account for the last five of those years.

The line that stayed with us was the one about claims. He talks about being walked through a stressful stretch, which is the part of the job that never appears anywhere on a schedule and is most of what people actually remember.

Thanks Jack. Ten years is not nothing.

Posted with Jack's permission. Results reflect his own experience and are not a guide to what another business will experience. Cover and claim outcomes are determined by the insurer under the policy terms, conditions, limits and exclusions.

Why does my business need an insurance adviser?Fair question, and the answer is not complicated.Running a business means...
24/09/2026

Why does my business need an insurance adviser?

Fair question, and the answer is not complicated.

Running a business means carrying risk every day. Plant, vehicles, staff, sites, contracts. An adviser helps you work out what needs covering before anything gets placed.

Insurance policies are legal documents. The conditions and exclusions that decide a claim sit deep in the wording rather than on the front page. An adviser reads that and tells you what it means for your business in plain terms.

Cover gaps stay hidden. A business can be underinsured for years without knowing, and it can surface only when a claim is made. An adviser looks for those gaps first.

A template does not fit. Your trade, your sites, your contracts and where you are heading all change what you need. An adviser arranges cover around your operation.

And when something does go wrong, claims can be stressful and they run on somebody else's clock. An adviser lodges it, liaises with the insurer and keeps you across where it sits. The insurer assesses the claim and decides the outcome.

Cover is subject to insurer underwriting and to the policy terms, conditions, limits and exclusions.

That is the whole answer.

Address

2 Webster Street
Ballarat Central, VIC
3350

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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