With largely underpenetrated market and growing prospects, the Middle East insurance sector is expected to grow at CAGR of about 25% during 2010-2013.
(1888PressRelease) May 15, 2010 – As per our recent report ?Middle East Insurance Market Forecast to 2012?, the Middle East has emerged as a growing market for insurers across the world with a rapid transformation in its insurance industry. As per our estimations, insurance premium is expected to grow at a rate of 25% during 2010-2013 as compared to a growth rate of 14% in 2007-2009. Saudi Arabia will witness the highest CAGR of 37%, followed by UAE and Bahrain during the forecast period. Full Article…
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Assumption life offers three simplified insurance policies under their non-medical life insurance umbrella.
The first is Total Protection, which has a limited number of health questions and no medical tests. The premiums on Total Protection are higher and the death benefit has a two-year waiting period on non-accidental deaths.
Their flagship plans, Golden Protection and Golden Protection Plus, are also available without a medical but, have an increased number of health questions.
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Bicycles can serve as both a source of fun and a means of transportation. They may also be expensive to replace – meaning that consumers should take the appropriate measures to insure their investment.
In honor of National Bike Month, the Insurance Information Institute offered advice of picking this coverage, which often comes with a renters or homeowners insurance policy. Actual cash value and replacement cost coverage offer varying degrees of protection, with the latter costing slightly more.
It is important to save the receipt from when the bike was purchased, according to the report, in order to determine the amount of coverage necessary.
“Bicycles can cost anywhere from several hundred dollars for a garden variety bike to custom-made options that can cost thousands of dollars,” Jeanne Salvatore, senior vice president and consumer spokesperson for the III, said.
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With the summer travel season approaching, consumers may want to consider a travel health insurance policy.
Such coverage can pay for expenses associated with emergency medical attention abroad or flights back to the U.S. This type of coverage was essential for University of Wisconsin educator Louise Robbins, whose husband was severely injured during their vacation to southwest China last summer, according to a recent report by the Associated Press.
The couple’s $250 supplemental insurance policy paid for his emergency evacuation back to America, where he died December 9. Without it, Robbins would have faced more than $100,000 in expenses.
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Credit-based insurance scores take an individual’s financial history into account during the underwriting process.
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies recently wrote a letter to U.S. Representatives Luis Gutierrez and Jeb Hensarling on the benefits of these practices, which are currently being examined in a hearing by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
NAMIC pointed to previous research showing that credit-based insurance scoring is less discriminatory than other approaches.
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If you are like millions of humans all over the world, you will absolutely be searching to save money. Whilst it is simple to save money by acid down on your luxuries, a added able way of accomplishing so is by acid down on the capital costs that you charge to pay anniversary month. If you can do this this will acquiesce you to advance a bit of disposable assets which you can use to abide to adore your life. One of these anchored costs that you are appropriate to pay anniversary ages is your car insurance. So how do you go about accepting CA auto insurance?
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Cautious optimism, a term that seems to be bandied about with alarming frequency these days, is in play again when looking at the insurance job market. Last week, a survey from GreatInsuranceJobs.com found that the job market for the insurance industry is still grim, but slowly bouncing back. Now, for a second consecutive month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) jobs report confirms this, showing insurance industry employment to still be sliding, while the overall national numbers have begun to bounce back.
Released last Friday, the jobs report contained a glimmer of hope, announcing a 290,000-job increase across all sectors.
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Family income, employer coverage and savings may not be enough to cover some of the expenses incurred by workers suffering from a disability.
However, these are the resources that nearly half of respondents in a recent survey by Principal Financial Services said they would rely on in the event of an injury. Three-fourths of these individuals gave a rating of eight or higher – out of 10 – for the emotional impact that such an event would have on them.
Despite understanding the emotional and physical toll a disability can have, 49 percent of respondents did not purchase the insurance necessary to cover their income, according to the survey.
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