Archive

  • Insured losses from Europe's floods could hit €6.5bn

    23 August 2021

    RMS reconstructed a flood hazard footprint that covers the worst affected areas

  • Demand for property cover leaps in Germany after flooding

    03 August 2021

    VKB, R&V and Provinzial estimate hundreds million euro losses

  • GDV raises German flood loss estimate to €5.5bn

    28 July 2021

    Signal Iduna takes €44m of claims so far

  • Europe's insurers predict flood bill exceeding €5bn

    22 July 2021

    Associations in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands reveal claims estimates

  • Europe's insurers dispense comfort, and pumps, to flood-hit communities

    19 July 2021

    Dutch association tells riverside homeowners "you're still insurable"

  • Dieselgate now German legal insurers' costliest event ever

    29 June 2021

    Losses top €1bn, but SFCRs show yet more reserving

  • German hybrid life products raise risk modelling concerns

    13 April 2021

    Use of GDV model scrutinised by regulator

  • Country profile: Germany

    16 March 2021

    Europe's third-largest insurance industry has survived the coronavirus pandemic so far, but continues to be plagued by low rates and poor profitability in motor and home cover, as David Walker describes in this special report featuring interviews with BaFin's Frank Grund and GDV's Jörg Asmussen

  • German insurers propose split approach for sustainability reporting

    05 March 2021

    GDV suggests narrative ESG reporting, and a central database

  • Germany's interest rate reserve gets bigger - and better

    07 January 2021

    German life insurers paid more into the Zinszusatzreserve again in 2020, despite the new "corridor method" of calculation that intended to unburden the sector. Industry leaders tell David Walker the ZZR remains fit for purpose nonetheless