The Bulgarian insurance market saw a 21.5% increase in GWP volume throughout between 2008 and 2017, the 10 years for which xprimm.com statistical database in presenting market results. The MTPL insurance class had the largest contribution, in absolute terms, to the market growth.

Thousands of Bulgarians protested last weekend in over 20 cities by blocking major highways and roads against higher fuel prices, tax increases for older, more polluting cars and an expected increase in MTPL premiums.

Bulgarian insurance market" authority - FSC recently published a draft ordinance regarding the MTPL tariffs for MTPL policies, wrote local media.

The Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission - FSC announced that it has allowed Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) to increase its direct shareholding in Bulstrad Vienna Insurance Group, following the liquidation of its fully-owned subsidiary TBI Bulgaria.

Allianz Bulgaria has officially started its distribution agreement with UniCredit Bulbank. Thus, since the beginning of October the life and property insurance products of Allianz will be available at the UniCredit Bulbank's counters across Bulgaria.

In the first half of 2018, the Bulgarian insurance market maintained a growth rhythm close to that established during the previous year, reporting a 7.9% y-o-y increase in GWP, to EUR 627.5 million.

Ralitsa AGAIN-GURI, deputy head of the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) resigned in the wake of the Olympic insurance company bankruptcy scandal. Vladimir SAVOV, a FSC member, will temporary take over her tasks until a new appointment will be approved by the Parliament.

The total GWP by Bulgarian insurers in 1Q 2018 was BGN 608.07 million (EUR 310.90 million), up by 6.28% y-o-y, according to the quarterly statistics published on the FSC's website.

Bulgaria's ARMEEC Leasing, part of local insurer ARMEEC, intends to acquire the Bulgarian unit of ERB Leasing, part of Greece's Eurobank group.

Ernst & Young, the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission's consultant on the bonus-malus system introduction for the MTPL insurance has submitted its final report, presenting no less than 11 possible scenarios for the system's design.

The most important annual meeting of the Croatian insurers, the "Croatian Insurance Days", took place in Opatija, Croatia, on 7 - 9 November.

On November 1st, an Agricultural insurance conference took place in Skopje, Macedonia, organized by the Insurance Supervision Agency in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy. Drawing attention to the necessity of reducing the risks in agriculture by using insurance was the event's main purpose.

Emmanuel DJENGUE, Innovation Director, Europe - RGAX, Spain is the Keynote Speaker at IIF 2018 - Insurance in a DIGITAL WORLD Conference in Bucharest, on November 27.

Becoming a growing threat globally, cyber risks is both a challenge and an opportunity for the insurance industry. MUNICH Re's representatives talked to XPRIMM TV in Baden Baden, about the different approach to this type of risk that the Group, as one of the most active players on the cyber market solutions, proposes.

End investors, Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) funds, and buyers - the three groups active in ILS - have predominantly weathered 2017 loss activity with a view that reinsurance products backed by 'alternative' capital have become mainstream, according to a new Global ILS Market Survey by Willis Towers Watson.

Swiss Re expects the global reinsurance industry to consolidate as the distinction between insurers and reinsurers become increasingly blurred, an executive from the Swiss Group said in Baden Baden, reports Reuters.

Current market conditions are putting increasing pressure on returns with some companies viewing consolidation as a potential solution, James NASH, CEO of International at Guy Carpenter said in his opening remarks at the Baden-Baden 2018 Reinsurance Meeting hosted by the global risk and reinsurance specialist.

E+S Ruckversicherung AG, the Hannover Re Group's unit handling German business, continues to expect a positive premium development in the German market for the January 2019 renewals, albeit at a somewhat more diminished pace than in 2018.

The market volume for cyber insurance is expected to grow up to USD 8-9 billion by 2020, Doris HOEPKE, member of Munich Re's Board of Management stressed in Baden Baden adding that, "The demand for cyber risk cover is growing continuously. We therefore see it as our duty to develop solutions."