Car insurance: collect discounts and lower premiums

Car insurance: collect discounts and lower premiums

October 28, 2020, 9:23 am Every year again. The changeover season in motor vehicle insurance has started. Verivox wants to give drivers tips. Car insurance: collect discounts and lower premiums Home, garage and work – with a few details, drivers can quickly reduce their insurance premiums by twelve percent. The comparison portal Verivox has evaluated … Read more

BVK surveys: sales shock in spring, slight decrease in summer

BVK surveys: sales shock in spring, slight decrease in summer

October 27, 2020, 11:22 am The corona pandemic is also having a massive impact on the intermediary industry. The Federal Association of German Insurance Merchants (BVK) examined how much in two online surveys. BVK President Michael H. Heinz – The first survey, which was carried out in April, showed a sales shock: of the 1,628 … Read more

On the practice of customer protection in insurance companies

On the practice of customer protection in insurance companies

October 27, 2020 – Volume two of the series on private insurance law from Linde-Verlag is about customer protection. Examples from the case law, the possibilities that the supervisory authority has in this area, the role of the insurance broker and alternative ways of dispute resolution are presented. New at Linde: customer protectionin private insurance … Read more

The growth winners and losers of the composite insurers

The growth winners and losers of the composite insurers

10/26/2020 – Property and casualty insurers achieved an average premium growth of 3.6 percent. Lifestyle Protection, R + V direkt and Ovag headed the list of growth winners. Allianz Direct, PB and Axa easy bring up the rear. ADVERTISING – – According to the General Association of the German Insurance Industry eV (GDV), property and … Read more

Protection for businesses can increasingly be concluded online

Protection for businesses can increasingly be concluded online

10/26/2020 – AIG has developed a new bundle product for more than 400 operating modes. The underwriter Midema brings a new public liability insurance. Hanse Merkur and MDT are reacting to Corona with something new for tour operators and the GHV is protecting hunting dogs when hunting packs. ADVERTISING – – The “Commercial Multiline Insurance … Read more

Escape from New York: Corona causes Manhattan’s housing market to collapse

Escape from New York: Corona causes Manhattan’s housing market to collapse

11. September 2020, 13:15 The corona crisis is making it more and more difficult for apartment owners in the US metropolis of New York to find tenants. Although prices in Manhattan fell rapidly during the pandemic, there have recently been as many unlet apartments as there have been in years. The vacancy rate rose in … Read more

Customer contact and recommendation after six months of Corona

Customer contact and recommendation after six months of Corona

October 23, 2020 – The willingness of insurance customers to recommend has apparently not suffered due to the Corona crisis. Survey data from Telemark Marketing see the “NPS” in the insurance sector, unlike in banks, at a stable level. More than half had been in contact with the consultant since mid-March. Dissatisfied customers are unlikely … Read more

The “new” Dialog draws a positive interim balance

The “new” Dialog draws a positive interim balance

October 23, 2020 – Dialog Versicherung had to complete its first year as the sole responsible company for business with independent sales partners in the German Generali Group, largely under Corona conditions. Nevertheless, the management board is satisfied with the development. Even an increase in sales seems possible. That was shown at a press conference … Read more

Service Value: These are the best motor insurers

Service Value: These are the best motor insurers

October 22, 2020, 10:05 am Autumn is the time to change in motor insurance. In addition to the high prices, poor service is one reason to look for a better car insurer. Just in time for the start of the hot phase of the switch business, the analysis company Service Value examined eleven direct motor … Read more

Corona crisis is costing Munich Re dearly

Corona crisis is costing Munich Re dearly

October 21, 2020, 8:43 am High losses from the corona pandemic and natural disasters caused reinsurer Munich Re to suffer a slump in profits this summer as well. In the third quarter, according to preliminary calculations, the surplus was around 200 million euros, as the group announced. That would be around 77 percent less than … Read more