Vipal Durge is Features Editor at (Re)in Asia, covering the deals and corporate strategy reshaping Asia Pacific insurance. Areas of specialty include M&A and market consolidation, insurer results and underwriting performance, and regulatory decisions across Australia, Japan, India and Southeast Asia.
Charter flights into the Gulf continue to attract high war risk premiums, some even doubling the total cost, as commercial aviation gradually recovers across the region.
Bajaj General Insurance deepens its distribution reach into rural and semi-urban India through a tie-up with Vakrangee, amid low market penetration flagged by Economic Survey.
The ruling sets an important precedent that insureds cannot invoke the presumption of loss by perils of the seas where investigation was possible but not pursued.
IRDAI's push for commission-free policy sales on Bima Sugam signals the regulator's wider effort to rein in costs that have surged across the sector in recent years.
Taiwan's accounting reforms have triggered a sharp retreat from currency forwards, with six major life insurers halving their combined positions in just two months.
4.97bn rupee (approx. US$53.5m) scheme sees India joins a growing list of governments mobilising state-backed insurance support in response to conflict.
The French insurer's decision to wind down its Taiwan branch comes following five years of losses, a failure to scale its business, despite capital support from its parent.
