IAIS Mid-Year GIMAR: Stable Solvency Masks Rising Systemic Risk
The IAIS's mid-year Global Insurance Market Report shows stable solvency, liquidity and profitability across the global sector at year-end 2025 - but aggregate systemic…
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Financial results, earnings, combined ratio, renewals
India Life Insurance Premiums Jump 20.66% in July, New Policy Sales Barely Move
India's life insurers reported a 20.66% jump in July first-year premium to Rs 47,004.84 crore, but the number of policies sold rose just 0.89%.…
Hannover Re’s H1 2026 Profit Rises 7% as Combined Ratio Beats Full-Year Target
Hannover Re's first-half 2026 results showed underwriting margins improving even as gross reinsurance revenue contracted, and the group left its full-year profit and combined-ratio…
Brazil Insurance Market Hits R$207.12B in H1 2026 as Claims Fall 3.93%
Brazil's SUSEP-supervised insurance sector collected R$207.12 billion in revenue during the first half of 2026, up 0.52% year-on-year, while claims and payouts fell 3.93%…
Spokane Wildfires Force 60,000 Evacuations as Reinsurance Market Stays Firm
Three wildfires near Spokane, Washington destroyed up to 700 structures and forced 60,000 evacuations over the first weekend of August, Guy Carpenter reports. The…
Brazil’s Insurers Post Flat H1 Revenue as Life Cover Outpaces the Market
Brazil's Susep-supervised insurers posted a barely-there 0.52% nominal revenue gain in H1 2026 — a real-terms decline — even as life insurance grew in…
Kenya’s Insurers Grow Premiums as Claims Ratio and Fraud Cases Both Climb
The IRA's Q1 2026 industry release shows double-digit premium growth across Kenya's insurance market, but a rising general-insurance claims ratio and a sharp jump…
Aon: Primary D&O Pricing Rises 0.6% After Sixteen Quarters of Declines
Aon's Q2 2026 D&O Pricing Index shows primary policy pricing up 0.6% year over year, the first increase after sixteen straight quarters of declines,…
The 2026 Wildfire Season Is Rewriting America’s Risk Map
Wildfire risk in the United States is spreading well beyond California, with a growing wildland-urban interface and the Spokane, Washington fires underscoring the shift.…
Indonesia’s Insurance Assets Hit Rp1,184.72 Trillion as Life Outpaces Non-Life
OJK's mid-2026 data show Indonesia's life insurance premiums growing while general insurance, reinsurance, and government-linked schemes contract, with insurers racing an end-2026 minimum capital…