AXA, BOC Group Life, FWD, HSBC Life and Manulife sit among 30 institutions involved in 36 use cases selected from nearly 100 proposals, in a cohort now spanning banking, securities, insurance and MPF.
Mainland China earnings came under pressure from bancassurance reforms and a greater reliance on participating products, but growth elsewhere lifted group profitability.
Designed for tunnel owners, developers and contractors, the cover funds specialist rescue and crisis-response operations following major underground incidents.
At least 177 have died and 826 are unaccounted for, with insurers estimating early claims for hydropower and construction projects at least in the hundreds of millions of rupees.
Stronger underwriting across motor, fire and casualty insurance helped offset higher catastrophe losses, while overseas investment income supported earnings growth.
Higher investment income and robust life insurance results propelled shareholder profit despite mixed performance across the group's non-life businesses.
