Across Asia, market conditions were mixed, with renewal outcomes varying by line of business. Natural catastrophe property risks remained challenged. Financial Lines saw a general softening, says Aon in its "Q1 2024 Global Insurance Market Insights Report" released last week.
Non-life insurers have agreed to resume farm insurance business after the government gave them its commitment to settle NPR970m ($7.3m) in premium subsidy arrears as soon as possible.
The Hong Kong insurance industry posted a 12.2% increase in total gross premiums to HK$165.1bn ($21.1bn) in the first quarter of 2024, according to provisional statistics released by the Insurance Authority (IA).
Watania Takaful has said that it had rejected zero motor claims, even though in the first few days after the heavy rains in April, the company received three times the daily average number of motor claims and an average number of daily calls of over 1,000 from customers.
With forecast growth of 7.7% per annum over the next 10 years, China's life insurance market will be behind India's which is predicted to grow at 13.6% per annum, according to Allianz Research in its "Global Insurance Report 2024".
China's insurance industry reported insurance premium income of CNY2.54tn ($350bn) in the first four months of 2024, according to data from the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA).
The number of insurance agents has fallen to 2.81m as of the end of 2023, a plunge of 69% from the end of 2019. While the decline is tapering off, there are no signs of when it will stop.
2024 marks the fifth year of the establishment of the Dajia Insurance Group in June 2019 by the Chinese authorities to take over the operations of the now-defunct Anbang Insurance Group.
Property-catastrophe reinsurance market pricing at 1 June 2024 has moderated, after notable rate increases in 2022 and 2023, observes Howden Re, the reinsurance and strategic advisory arm of Howden.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday issued an updated set of Guidelines on Fair Dealing. A key change is that the scope of the Guidelines has been expanded to apply to all financial institutions (FIs), and all products and services they offer to their customers.