Increasing frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters are driving up reinsurance costs and impacting insurance premiums in the Philippines Worsening climate change could drive up the cost of insuring personal assets, creating a domino effect from rising reinsurance costs, according...
Electric vehicle (EV) owners planning to avail of auto insurance can expect more expensive premiums, as guide rates will be published by midyear or earlier, according to a senior official of the Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association (PIRA). The non-life insurance industry group's motor...
The life insurance industry registered robust growth in premium collections and financial performance in the first three months of the year, the Insurance Commission (IC) reported. Total premiums collected by life insurance companies increased by 12 percent from January to March 2024 to P87.66...
The Insurance Commission (IC) has reinstated the two-tiered minimum insurance premium rates for catastrophe insurance products. Based on IC Circular Letter No. 2024-11, premium rates for earthquake risks now back at 0.10 percent, while for typhoons and floods, they are set again at 0.05 percent....
With an expanding portfolio of insured properties from government agencies, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has emerged as the largest non-life insurer in the country. Wick Veloso, GSIS president and general manager, said the pension fund's gross premiums written (GPW) for its...
The insurance industry in the country experienced an increase of 9.38 percent to P38.28 billion during the third quarter on the back of a surge in life and non-life segments. The latest data released by the Insurance Commission (IC) showed that the industry's net income increased from July to...
The combined premiums of the insurance industry registered a decline in the first six months of the year, data from the Insurance Commission (IC) revealed. Based on reports provided by 128 out of 136 licensed life and nonlife insurers, as well as mutual benefit associations (MBAs), the total...
State-owned Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) now accepts optional non-life insurance (ONLI) premium payments and the corresponding taxes and fees from clients online through Land Bank of the Philippines. In a statement on Monday, Feb. 20, Wick Veloso, GSIS president and general manager,...
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) posted a record-high P6.8 billion gross premium written (GPW) in its non-life insurance business for last year as more agencies move to secure state-owned assets, making the pension fund the country's largest non-life insurer in the country. In a...
As the number of COVID-19 cases in the country increased, insurance claim payouts due to the pandemic hit P8.2 billion in the first nine months of last year, a survey conducted by the Insurance Commission revealed. In a statement, Insurance Commissioner Dennis B. Funa said on Monday, Jan. 31 that...
The Insurance Commission reported that the premium income of insurers in the country jumped by double digits in the second-quarter, an indication of the country’s economic recovery from a prolonged pandemic. In a statement, Insurance Commissioner Dennis B. Funa said on Tuesday, Oct. 26, that the...
Insurance payments related to the coronavirus pandemic hit more than P8 billion. IC Comm. Dennis B. Funa Since the pandemic began, Insurance Commissioner Dennis B. Funa reported that payouts made by life and non-life insurers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and mutual benefit associations...
