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  • European insurers report premium growth and solvency ratio improvement in 2025

    20 July 2026

    Total premiums rose by 4.6% in 2025, while solvency ratios hit 218% in the same year

  • Unipol gets top-up to life CSM from taking on Eurovita's remains - UPDATED

    24 February 2026

    Transfer of assets and liabilities happened late in 2025, says Unipol's CEO

  • UniCredit sets stage for expansion of life bancassurance business

    23 June 2025

    Italian group completes acquisition of CNP and Allianz joint ventures

  • Italian life firms continued reinsuring lapse risk in 2024, SFCRs say

    29 May 2025

    Poste Vita's programme had a 41 percentage point effect on its solvency ratio

  • Solvency data reveals eight Italian life firms' lapses outweighed their premiums in 2023

    11 October 2024

    Sector's total lapses were worth 52% of its gross written premium

  • Poste Vita's lapse risk rises, but is less than half its Italian peers' average

    28 May 2024

    Surrenders mainly hit unit-linked and with-profits lines, according to SFCR

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of bail-out plan

    22 April 2024

    Italian life insurer faced solvency pressure before rivals took liabilities

  • Eurovita rescue plan will prevent contagion in Italy, says Moody's

    06 July 2023

    The rescuing insurers will share assets and liabilities, while banks cover liquidity from November

  • Eurovita to be rescued by five insurers and banks

    03 July 2023

    Generali Italia, Intesa Sanpaolo Vita, Poste Vita, Unipol and Allianz to run operation holding policies

  • Mass policy surrenders remain a blight on Europe's life insurers

    20 June 2023

    But reinsurers are stepping in to help manage lapse risk, and the EU's insurance chief is sanguine about the threat, as Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report