The founder and former chief of the failed insurer HIH, Ray Williams, will be sentenced next year after pleading guilty to three charges of misleading shareholders. Williams, 68, was ordered to appear ...

The year-long royal commission investigating the wreck of Australia’s second largest general insurer is slowly drawing to a close. The lengthy list of witnesses finished in December. The final report ...

Two out of the three insurance companies within the HIH group were insolvent two years before HIH collapsed last year owing $5.3 billion, the royal commission was told yesterday. The asset deficiency ...

August 15 was the day HIH founder Ray Williams lashed out at Rodney Adler. Williams told the royal commission into the insurer's collapse he felt "very annoyed, very upset" about problems that emerged ...

The former chairman of the failed HIH insurance company, Ray Williams, is a free man after almost three years in jail. In 2005, Mr Williams was found guilty of misleading shareholders about the ...

FORMER HIH non-executive director and prominent barrister Robert Stitt, QC can take a senior insurance role again after a tribunal overturned a ban by the banking and insurance watchdog. The ...

Just when it seemed everything that could be said about the grand scandal of HIH had been done to death, Colleen Ryan reviews a book that reveals much more and in a refreshingly original fashion. It ...

The Sydney HIH letters are now at the new Tavern at Turner Hall and available to the public for viewing. Plus, Tavern softly opens today. Fred Gillich, owner of Too Much Metal For One Hand, acquired ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A four-year investigation into the A$5.3bn (US$4.1bn) failure of HIH, Australia's biggest corporate collapse, ...