Uelzener: New head of broker and cooperative sales
Uelzener Allgemeine Versicherungsgesellschaft aG has a new head of broker and cooperative sales. Sascha Risse has been taking on the task since the beginning of the month. Risse announced this on his LinkedIn profile. Sascha Risse was previously Head of Key Account Management Pools, Sales and Associations at the Inter Insurance Group.
Coalition with new European head of insurance
Coalition has appointed Tine Simonsen as head of insurance for continental Europe. As an experienced cyber underwriter and broking executive, Simonsen will anchor Coalition’s presence and expansion in the European region. In her previous role at AIG, Simonsen led the Nordic Financial Lines team and managed the Financial Lines portfolio as the largest profit center for AIG in the Nordics.
Motor vehicle insurance: joining a workshop brings an average saving of eleven percent
Drivers who agree on a workshop commitment with their insurer pay an average of eleven percent less for their vehicle insurance. This is the result of current calculations by the money guide Finanztip. “In our current Finanztip study, we were able to save an average of eleven percent on the total premium for our model customers with fully comprehensive insurance,” says Finanztip insurance expert Kathrin Gotthold. “With an average premium of 580 for a fully comprehensive insurance contract without a workshop commitment, you save an average of 64 euros if you forego a free choice of workshop with the insurer.”
VEMA welcomes its 275th employee
Since its founding in 1997, VEMA has developed into one of the leading service providers for insurance brokers on the German market. More than 4,700 medium-sized brokerage firms joined
Broker cooperative now. On October 1st, Julia Käppler and Christopher Böhner started working at the headquarters in Heinersreuth. With these two new colleagues, the VEMA workforce at both locations now numbers 275 people.
Generali publishes report on the use of parametric insurance
On October 4, 2024, Generali and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have one joint report publishedwhich shows how parametric or index-based insurance can help governments, businesses and communities around the world prepare financially for increasingly common and severe natural disasters – from drought, extreme heat and tropical cyclones to storm surges, earthquakes and other disasters.
What else the traffic light government should tackle?
According to a current survey, the most pressing social policy issues for citizens up to the 2025 federal election have been clearly identified. The top priority is improving health care in rural areas (41.5 percent). Also important are the inclusion of self-employed people in pension insurance (38.7 percent) and limiting rent increases (33.2 percent). Other relevant topics include strengthening health and nursing care insurance (30.7 percent) and improvements in nursing policy, such as wage replacement benefits for caring relatives (18.4 percent). These are the results of a representative Civey survey for the social association VdK Germany.
Institute of Insurance: ‘Cyber course’ goes into the next round
The Institute for Insurance (ivwKöln) at the TH Cologne offers a part-time certificate course “Cyber Insurance Manager”. The next cohort will start on November 14th, 2024; Remaining places are still availablesaid the institute.
