Austrian insurance group UNIQA said on Friday its earnings before taxes from operations in Kosovo fell to 100,000 euro in the first three months of 2015 from 400,000 euro a year earlier.

Total gross written premiums from operations in Kosovo rose by 32.9% to 3.6 million euro through March, UNIQA said in a financial report.

Gross written premiums on the non-life insurance segment in Kosovo accounted for 2.1 million euro of the total premiums volume through March, up 5.1% on the year. Gross written premiums from life-insurance jumped by 171.2%. Read the full story KOSOVO: UNIQA's Q1 pre-tax earnings fall