According to the data collected by the Polish Insurance Association (PIU), at the end of March this year, 4.3 million Poles were covered by private health insurance, which is 12.5% more y-o-y. The quarterly GWP for this type of insurance reached PLN 454.4 million (~EUR 96.88 million), Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa wrote.

TUW PZUW, the largest mutual insurance company in Poland, part of the PZU financial group, launches "Szpital 360" - a new project that TUW PZUW intends to introduce in medical facilities from September, as a preventive program aimed at developing a medical risk management model in medical entities insured by the company.

Acrisure, a Fintech leader that operates a top-10 global insurance broker, announced its acquisition of Unilink Group, the largest insurance distribution platform in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. Through this partnership, Acrisure adds over 1,300 colleagues across Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Moldova and clients in the same geography.

At the end of April, due to the expiry of the three-year contract, Andrea Simoncelli resigns from the position of the Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of insurance companies of Generali Polska, as the company informed here.

The latest report of the Financial Ombudsman for 2022 confirmed Warta's position as a leader in the quality of customer service in the property and motor insurance segments. The company has maintained this position for the fifth year in a row, Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa wrote.

Nearly three-quarters of about 9,000 cases submitted to the Financial Ombudsman last year concerned property insurance, and almost half of all insurance cases referred to motor policies, Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa wrote.

The calculations made by Rankomat show that during the first 3 months of 2023 the motor insurance market recorded another drop in prices compared to the same period last year. The average premium decreased by nearly 10%. At the same time, price reductions are not as dynamic as in previous years,

The Polish insurance market posted FY2022 GWP worth PLN 72.35 billion (EUR 15.42 billion), up by 4.53% y-o-y according to the quarterly statistics published by Polish KNF (Financial Supervision Authority). At the same time, claims and benefits paid by local insurers increased by 7.46% y-o-y to PLN 44.38 billion or EUR 9.46 billion.

Last year 219,677 agricultural producers (31,246 more than in 2021) concluded insurance contracts for insurance of crops or livestock with a subsidy from the state budget, said Ryszard Bartosik, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa wrote.

According to the data of the Analizy.pl website, at the end of 2022, the value of assets accumulated in insurance capital amounted to PLN 36.99 billion (~EUR 7.87 billion), which is PLN 9.4 billion (20%) less y-o-y. The source noted that since its peak in 2017, share-related assets have already shrunk by more than a third, Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa reports.

Acrisure Re, the (re)insurance division of top-10 global insurance broker and fintech platform Acrisure, announced that its Facultative team has signed a preferred partnership broker agreement with Polish Smartt Re specifically for Central Eastern European (CEE) Facultative business, effective immediately.

According to Rankomat, the insurance market ended 2022 with the largest reduction in the average MTPL premium in five years. Car owners paid an average of 16% less for compulsory insurance than a year ago, Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa reports.

Of the PLN 4.5 billion (~EUR 0.92 billion) allocated in this year's state budget for subsidies to insurance premiums for crops and livestock, only PLN 390.2 million (~EUR 80.28 million) was used in the first three quarters of 2022, which, according to experts, indicates that Polish farmers are still reluctant to insure their crops and livestock, farmer.pl wrote.

The largest CEE insurance market posted aggregate 3Q2022 GWP worth PLN 57.7 billion (EUR 10.8 billion), up by 3.6% y-o-y according to the quarterly statistics published by Polish KNF (Financial Supervision Authority). At the same time, claims and benefits paid by local insurers increased by ~11% y-o-y to PLN 33.6 billion or EUR 6.9 billion.

Polish insurance companies may be forced to increase MTPL rates for the first time since 2017, given the constant increase in the claims expenses, Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa wrote, quoting Rankomat, a local comparison website. In Q2 2022, the average value of motor vehicle damage reached PLN 8,769.5, 5.2% up y-o-y.

The value of insurance premiums collected by the PZU Group throughout the first three quarters of 2022 exceeded PLN 19 billion (~EUR 4.05 billion), 4.3% up y-o-y. In Q3 alone, GWP growth rate was the highest in a year (12.1% y-o-y), thanks to the rapidly growing sales of non-life insurance, motor insurance in particular.

Czech insurance broker INSIA becomes part of the Polish UNILINK group, as INSIA informed here. According to the statement, UNILINK Group has acquired 80% of INSIA from Marsh.

Czech insurance broker INSIA becomes part of the Polish UNILINK group, as INSIA informed here. According to the statement, UNILINK Group has acquired 80% of INSIA from Marsh.

In 2021, drivers of vehicles with foreign registration numbers caused 12.8 thousand accidents and collisions, according to the data of the Polish Motor Insurers' Bureau (PBUK). This was almost at the same level as a year before, but nearly a quarter less than two years ago, Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa reports.

According to the CUK Ubezpieczenia data, MTPL average rate in Poland in September was 2.2% lower than in January. On the other hand, the average price of Motor Hull increased significantly (10%), Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa reports.