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Seguros Múltiples launches an express claims service

Puerto Rican ICMIF member Seguros Múltiples has launched an express service for members to help to facilitate the claims process after an accident. With the aim of providing greater agility and convenience to its customers, the Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples has integrated its offerings with an “Express Service” that promises to facilitate the process of claiming compulsory […]

Unipol partners to launch Italy’s first smartphone-only telematics program

ICMIF member Unipol Group, Italy’s largest motor insurer, today announced a new partnership with TrueMotion, the leading platform for smartphone telematics. As part of the partnership, Unipol will leverage data-driven insights from the patented TrueMotion platform to power its smartphone telematics programs, starting with Linear’s BestDriver program in Italy. Linear Assicurazioni is the online motor insurance […]

The Co-operators gives Working for Change charity a funding boost to support people with mental health challenges

As part of its commitment to help build more resilient, healthy and sustainable communities across Canada, ICMIF member The Co-operators has renewed its partnership with charitable organisation Working for Change, donating a total of CAD 90,000 over three years to support employment and training opportunities for people marginalised by mental health issues. This announcement came during Mental […]

R+V Versicherung and Friendsurance Business digital bancassurance solution to launch this month

German ICMIF member R+V Versicherung has collaborated with Friendsurance Business to jointly developing a digital bancassurance solution as a service for members of the 875 cooperative banks in Germany which make up the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken group. R+V Versicherung forms part of the group and is the insurance provider within Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken. The VR-Versicherungsmanager app is based on […]

LB Forsikring enters into strategic cooperation with Danish pension provider PFA

Danish ICMIF member LB Forsikring has today announced a strategic partnership with Denmark’s largest commercial customer-owned pension company PFA which, among other things, means that PFA’s customers will be given the opportunity to take out private, non-life insurance with LB Forsikring. Common values and comparable business models have been key to the establishment of the partnership, which will take […]

Securian Financial CFO joins other finance leaders in launch of US chapter of A4S Leadership Network

A group of leading US CFOs have this month announced the launch of the first US Chapter of the global A4S Chief Financial Leadership Network. This prestigious group includes Warren Zaccaro, CFO of ICMIF member Securian Financial. Established by the Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S), a nonprofit founded by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2004, this […]

La Segunda creates an innovation platform to accelerate its cultural transformation

In just 10 weeks, Argentinian ICMIF member La Segunda has created its own innovation platform, catalyzing a generation of workers to generate and execute new ideas, with the help of innovation company Parabolt.  The aim of the platform is to transform the working culture at the La Segunda (one of Argentina’s leading insurance companies) with the help of Parabolt, a company that sets out to transform innovative ideas into disruptive products. The […]

NTUC Income enters strategic partnership to scale innovation in digital insurance

Singaporean ICMIF member NTUC Income (“Income”) has announced this month that it has joined forces with ZA Tech Global Limited (“ZA Tech”), a business entity for overseas technological exports formed by China’s first internet-based insurer, ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co. Limited (“ZhongAn”), to bring speed to Income’s digital innovation and product launches in Singapore. As part of […]

The DHAN Foundation now provides mutual microinsurance cover to over 300,000 people from disadvantaged communities in India

Nearly 300,000 previously uninsured people from low-income and disadvantaged communities in India are now protected with a health or life microinsurance policy by ICMIF Indian member the DHAN Foundation. This is a result of the DHAN Foundation’s project under the ICMIF 5-5-5 Mutual Microinsurance Strategy (the “5-5-5”), which launched in April in 2017. Through its partnership with ICMIF, […]

Willis Re report finds total reinsurance dedicated capital was down 5% at year-end 2018

According to the latest Reinsurance Market Report from ICMIF Supporting Member Willis Re, total capital dedicated to the global reinsurance industry measured USD 462 billion at year-end 2018. The largest component of this figure is the total shareholders’ equity of the 32 reinsurance companies tracked in the Willis Reinsurance Index1 which was down 10% to USD 335.7 billion, […]

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