The Insurance Association of China’s chairman has announced that the country will likely be opening its doors to the largest auto market in the world to make it possible for foreign companies to enter into the mandatory auto insurance marketplace in 2012. Currently, this auto insurance market of $31.5 billion is entirely led by insurance companies from China, for example, Ping An Insurance and PICC Property and Casualty Co., but regulators are working to bring in a greater amount of competition. Jin Jianqiang, in Taipei, explained that insurers from other…
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Auto insurance in China now includes Swiss Re and Munich Re
With the goal of growing their premiums, both Munich Re and Swiss Re Ltd. have announced that they are headed into China to assist local auto insurance companies in the writing of a greater amount of coverage within the largest auto market on the planet. The world’s second largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, has already stated that the premiums in China for the first two quarters have exceeded $1 billion, which is significantly higher than the $885 million that was seen by the same time last year. According to the Munich…
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