UKRAINE: Yaroslavsky announces purchase of INGO
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STATISTICS: Kosovo: Insurers' net profit more than halves in 2018
STATISTICS: MONTENEGRO, FY2018: insurers FY2018 GWP - up by 6% y-o-y
STATISTICS: GREECE FY2018: Non-life segment maintained the market on ascendant path
STATISTICS: CROATIA: Insurance market maintained its growth by the end of 2018
STATISTICS: KAZAKHSTAN, FY2018: non-life dropped by almost 3%, while life keeps strengthening
STATISTICS: ALBANIA: Paid claims and indemnities expanded by a quarter during 2018
STATISTICS: SLOVAKIA, 3Q2018: insurers' profits decreased to EUR 120 million
STATISTICS: Macedonia, 3Q2018: Local insurance market expanded to EUR 120 million
STATISTICS: SLOVENIA timeline 2008 - 2017: steady and smooth transition year over year
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According to the National Financial Services Committee, the number of complaints regarding insurance activities in 2018 remained almost unchanged (5381 vs 5389 in 2017). At that the major part (63%) of the complaints were about MTPL, as Forinsurer wrote.
By the end of the first quarter of 2019 it is planned to increase MTPL insurance limits for damage to property, life and health caused as a result accidents, as MTIBU informed.
Personal insurance lines in Ukraine are showing a rapid growth. In 3Q2018 GWP from individuals amounted to UAH 13.39 billion (+20.5% y-o-y), as Forinsurer wrote.
According to the National financial services committee of Ukraine, in order to remove unreliable players from the financial market, 126 organizations, including 13 insurance companies, were removed during January-September, as the member of the Committee, Aleksander ZALETOV informed.
For 9 months in 2018 Ukrainian insurers generated GWP in the amount of UAH 34.87 billion (~EUR 1 billion). At that annual growth rate in local currency amounted to 11.1%, according to the data, published by the National Financial Services Commission.
According to the National financial services committee of Ukraine, as the moment only 20% of the local insurers fully meet obligatory requirements to capital adequacy and solvency, liquidity and profitability, asset quality and riskiness of insurers' operations.
MTPL GWP of Ukrainian insurers-members of MTIBU for 10 months this year went up by 21.4% y-o-y and reached UAH 3.7 billion, according to the data of MTIBU.
UNIQA Group's Ukrainian subsidiaries, UNIQA and UNIQA Life, generated GWP in the amount of UAH 2 billion (~EUR 60.37 million) in 3Q2018, which is 27.1% more y-o-y, as Forinsurer informed.
UNIQA Group's Ukrainian subsidiaries, UNIQA and UNIQA Life, generated GWP in the amount of UAH 2 billion (~EUR 60.37 million) in 3Q2018, which is 27.1% more y-o-y, as Forinsurer informed.
Insurance reserves of Ukrainian insurers as of the end of September amounted to UAH 24.8 billion (+15% y-o-y; ~EUR 748.6 million), according to the member of the National financial services committee of Ukraine, Alexander ZALETOV.
Global re/insurance broker AON has named veteran AON leader, Lambros LAMBROU as Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Commercial Risk Solutions division.
FAIRFAX Financial Holdings Limited announced that Peter CLARKE has been appointed Vice President (VP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of FAIRFAX, reporting to FAIRFAX President, Paul RIVETT.
Adam ROMAN, board member of Ergo Hestia (Poland), will hold the position of Head of Global P&C of the ERGO group, effective 1 March. His tasks will include supervision over property insurance of the group in the areas of underwriting, actuarial and pricing, as well as reinsurance.
Jad ARISS, currently Group Head of Public Affairs and Corporate Responsibility with AXA, has been appointed Secretary General of The Geneva Association, effective 1 March 2019.
Guvanch NURMUKHAMMEDOV has been appointed as the new General Director of the State insurance organization, the single insurance institute of Turkmenistan, as the State information agency of Turkmenistan wrote.
Insurance should be accessible to all social classes, regardless of their wealth & income status. Products offered today are conventional insurance products, largely inspired from the developed markets as "one-size-fits-all" solutions, affordable to only middle- and high-income clients in the Eastern Europe's emerging & developing markets. Inclusive insurance's goal is making insurance available to all, with responsible insurance offers, thus making up for a solution to narrow the insurance coverage gap in the region.
Property and motor insurance lines are providing for about 75% of the non-life insurance business in the CEE region, but are responsible for over 77% of the claims expenses. As such, although other classes of risks are emerging, for the time being and most probably for a rather long period ahead, property and motor insurance lines will continue to be at the heart of CEE's insurance market architecture.
To the satisfaction of its traditional guests, FIAR returns in 2019 to its historical hometown, Sinaia. The forthcoming edition will benefit from the comfort and professional facilities of a new venue, the Conference Center of the International Hotel ****, located in the heart of the beautiful mountain resort. Registration is opened at a significantly discounted early bird rate until 28 February.