Showing posts with label Insurance company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insurance company. Show all posts

Friday, January 25, 2013

PZU wants to further invest in Ukraine

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 According to head of PZU, the group wants to develop insurance in Ukraine, despite the difficulties in obtaining licenses



Polish insurance group PZU ready for additional investment in Ukraine. The press service of PZU, referring to the statement of the group Andrzej Klesika.

According to the report, during the meeting with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov Klesik PZU additionally confirmed the readiness to invest in Ukraine. According Klesika, the purpose of investment - the consolidation of the insurance market, as well as participation in global projects in the field of insurance.

Currently, the total amount of investments already made in PZU Ukraine exceeded 300 million zlotys (about $ 96 million - Ed.) In the future, the group plans to use the available funds for the development of the Ukrainian insurance market and consolidate its position.

This decision was made in part due to a positive financial result PZU Ukraine, said the press service.

Evaluating the investment activity of the insurance market of Ukraine, Klesik noted that foreign investors holding back situation with licenses for certain types of insurance, with the status of the time. Fact necessary renewal of licenses in certain types of insurance is seen by investors as a potential additional risks.

According to President of PZU, it does not stop working group in Ukraine, but such requirements are causing uncertainty in other Western investors.

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Area under wheat in the United States are growing and prices

Crop insurance will also be one of the causes

Crop insurance will also be one of the causes of activation of the sowing campaign after a poor harvest last year.

  It is expected that the new report will show growth USDA acreage under wheat in the U.S. amid rising wheat prices.


Crop insurance will also be one of the causes of activation of the sowing campaign after a poor harvest last year. The size of the area under wheat this season could be the largest in the last 4 years. According to preliminary estimates, the area can expand to 42.6 from 41.3 mln.akrov mln.akrov last season.

Area under the hard red winter wheat may rise to 30.1 mln.akrov, under the red flour - to 9.03 million acres. Ending stocks are estimated at 31 May in 741 mln.busheley. As of December 1, total stocks of wheat in the U.S. $ 1.6 billion bushels. As for the world ending stocks of wheat, the estimate is 174.6 million tons.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Receiving the Doctor online on webcam

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Medical Insurance: Receiving the Doctor online on webcam

Services virtual doctor visits that connect patients in their own home with a doctor at the hospital through the online video or phone becoming more popular, because insurance companies are increasingly willing to pay for them.


In the last statement, WellPoint Inc, the second-largest U.S. insurance company insuring the health, so that the insurer plans to offer a new service for all of their group and individual programs that allow people to consult a doctor on demand, using a webcam or video notebook support plates and smartphones. Video tutorials targeted clients looking for "the convenience and accessibility of health care," said Ken Goulet, Executive Vice President.

But such services, which, according to supporters, can save money by avoiding costly trips to the emergency room, creating tensions between some state regulators and groups of doctors. They argue that the remote visits can make sense when the patient communicates with the attending physician, but treatment may be affected when patients will be served by a doctor, who may be in a different city or state.

Other insurers, including Aetna Inc and UnitedHealth Group Inc, offer a service virtual doctor visits as an option for some employers. A growing number of major companies, including Home Depot Inc and Westinghouse Electric Co, tend to add a service remote consultations to their advantage. According to a survey conducted by Mercer (consulting division of Marsh & McLennan Cos.), 15% of major employers use some form of telemedicine, and another 39% are considering it.

"The ability to communicate with your doctor, 24/7 via the Internet, without an appointment, at an attractive price, is a very attractive option," said Ginny Proesteyks, Director of Health General Electric Co, which tested a virtual consulting service from Optum UnitedHealth Group and co-workers in the state Ohio and plans to launch the service more widely in 2013.

Employers and insurers say that online services can help reduce the probability of a shortage of doctors, nurses. Virtual consultations often cost about $ 40 to $ 45, which is much smaller than a personal visit to the doctor or visit the emergency center.

"If it does not lower the price, the game is not worth it," said Ann Boynton, Deputy Executive Director, who oversees health insurance for pension systems the California Public Employees. This year, he began testing services offered by telephone and online video visits from Teladoc Inc., In one of his programs with about 350,000 registered.

Services are generally directed to specialists and emergency physicians of family medicine. Internet visits should be used for relatively small, acute needs of patients, and not serve as a constant source of regular care. For example, the most common diagnoses in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota programs that offer online and telephone consultations on technology American Well Corp., Include sinus infections, urinary tract infections and conjunctivitis.

Judy Johnson, coach of the call center for the protection of mobile devices by Asurion Insurance Services Inc, use the virtual consultation outlined in the benefits of working at Asurion, to cure a sinus infection, when she did not have time to go to the office of his doctor. She signed up online, contacted toll-free number and describe their symptoms.

A few minutes later the doctor called and talked to her about her condition and medical history, and then handed over the appointment and a prescription for antibiotics to the store.

Ms. Johnson said that she would not feel so comfortable choosing a doctor online, if not offer their own employer, "the legitimacy of which I never questioned."

If remote consultations razrastutsya, they eventually cause financial friction between primary care physician. "It takes away the most profitable and lung patients," minor complaints, requiring relatively brief and routine visits, said Nathan Kaufman, a consultant working with physician groups and hospitals.

But services can also provide an opportunity for additional income generation and flexible working for doctors who want to work for themselves, said Mr. Kaufman.

Jeffrey J. Kane, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, suggested that it was too early to speculate what specific impact on the practice of digital services will make visits to the medical industry.

 Well, as they say, wait and see.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Generali increases its assets

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Insurance company Generali

PPF Group Czech businessman Peter Kellner rid of shares in "Ingosstrakh", it consolidates the Italian Generali. Italian insurer share increase from the current 19.2% to 38.46% of the shares. Transaction will take place within the framework of Italian investors buy shares in the joint venture - GPH. In early 2012, Kellner said it was in talks to sell stake in "Ingosstrakh" with VTB, although he also claimed Generali. Supported the deal with VTB head Generali Giovanni Perissinotto in June was dismissed from his post.
The deal to increase the share of Generali in "Ingosstrakh" will be held in the exchange of shares: Italian partners fully absorb PPF Beta, and PPF Group will have full control over the joint management unit private investments - PPF Partners.
Generali has agreed to purchase held by Kellner 49% in GPH for € 2,5 billion 25% will go to Generali up to 28 March 2013, and the remaining 25% - by the end of 2014. PPF Group, in turn, for € 80 million buy out the business of consumer credit insurance in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Thus, the parties have completely stopped Partnership in Central and Eastern Europe. According to head of Generali Mario Greco, the deal will enable the parties to eliminate the "uncertainty" about the business strategy in the region. According to calculations of the Italian insurer, redemption GPH allow it to increase its customer base and revenues in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Now the region is the fourth-largest market for Generali after Italy, France and Germany. Customer base in 2011 was 14 million customers, insurance premiums - € 4 billion

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The majority shareholder of "Ingosstrakh" is holding "Basic Element" Oleg Deripaska, with whom PPF for five years continued corporate conflict. Then Kellner Foundation for $ 700-750 million Alexander Mamut acquired a stake in "Ingosstrakh". At the May 2012 meeting of the shareholders of "Ingosstrakh" elected a new board of directors, the decision PPF managed to challenge the Arbitration Court of Moscow. PPF insisted on the inclusion of their representatives to the board of directors, arbitration agreed with this position.
In December 2012, the Italian-Czech group GPH rid of the Russian pension asset. She sold the pension fund "Generali PPF" shareholders "Russian Funds". "Generali PPF" will be attached to the NPF "First National Pension Fund."


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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

The test which can show is developed, how many years it is necessary to live to the person

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At present insurance societies are interested in everything that is connected with the person, up to a family history of illnesses and bad habits

Scientists had been developed the test which determines life expectancy of people and can tell, with what speed there is a process of their aging. In testing of the given innovative technology have taken part more than 100 inhabitants of Great Britain.


Already in the near future he will allow to establish, how many years still it is necessary to live to the person. Scientists who have developed this test, expect that it will be used as the standard physical examination which passage is the mandatory condition of the insurance companies. It is necessary to notice that at present insurance societies are interested in everything that is connected with the person, up to a family history of illnesses and bad habits.

At the same time, some specialists consider that the science yet has no the necessary quantity of the information concerning the given test and can't advise something.

The given analysis of blood states an estimation of speed of process of aging of the person, measuring length of microscopic structures which are on the terminations of a chromosome which is called telomere. These particles protect a chromosome from destruction during cell fission.

Telomeres have properties to be shortened after the cage shares, and researches on animals have shown that the high maintenance of short chromosomes speaks about shorter life expectancy, than usual. For this reason the given analysis of blood provides guidance on speeds of process of aging and about a remaining life expectancy.

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Monday, December 31, 2012

The insurance covering is given at a rate of 800 million dollars

The insurance of 800 million dollars


The insurance covering is given at a rate of 800 million dollars from the Korean corporation of trading insurance, 140 million dollars – from Swedish EKN and 124 million dollars from German Hermes.

The company «Thomson Reuters», being the world leader in sphere business analysts, publishes the periodical on global market research of project financing «PFI» (Project Finance International).

As have reported in press-service NHK "Uzbekneftegaz", in December, 2012 in the summary edition «Project Finance International 2012 Year Book» it is declared award of annual awards following the results of 2012 on the basis of the analysis of transactions of global community of participants of project financing.

Ten considered largest projects included projects from Australia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Norway, the USA, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, the Russian Federation in the field of power, oil and gas extraction, oil and gas products, transport.


In a nomination «the Transaction of year in area oil and gas products  a prize the project «Building Ustjurtsky Gas Chemistry has received a complex on the basis of a deposit of Surgil» (also known under names «Uz-Kor», «Surgil») that is acknowledgement of its uniqueness and the innovative approach, and also ample opportunities of Uzbekistan in realization of large investment projects on the basis of project financing.

The edition hasn'ted a number of unprecedented achievements of the project:

- The first international project financing in sphere oil and gas products in Uzbekistan;

- The largest project financing in the Central Asia;

- The largest project financing among газохимических projects in the CIS;

- The first project corresponding to Equatorial principles in Uzbekistan.

The project has been developed on the basis of a close cooperation between Uzbekistan and South Korea and has got direct support of the governments of both countries which Presidents have taken part in ceremony of a bookmark of the first stone.

The packet of financial records for a total sum of 2,54 billion dollars has been signed in May for a period of 16 years. It includes 1 bln. dollars from the Korean export-import bank, 250 million dollars from the State Development Bank of China, 125 million dollars from the Asian Development Bank, 100 mln. dollars from National bank of Uzbekistan. The insurance covering is given at a rate of 800 million dollars from the Korean corporation of trading insurance, 140 million dollars – from Swedish EKN and 124 million dollars from German Hermes.

The following nine commercial banks listed according to volume of given financing, have taken part in financing under a covering of export-import agencies: the Korean financial corporation, the Korean Development Bank, ING Bank, Siemens Bank, Credit Suisse, Bayern LB, KfW IPEX, Nordea, and also the Swedish bank SEK.

Rewarding of prize-winners will take place on January, 30th, 2013 in London.




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Friday, December 28, 2012

How to Get an Insurance Claim Paid

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Getting an insurance claim paid is a real pain. Rick Kahler, the dauntless president of Kahler Financial Group in Rapid City, S.D., gives some secrets about how to cope with the insurance industry. Rick, a financial advice polymath, is known in the advisor world for his complex grasp of intricate subjects and his common-sense solutions. His take:

Getting claims money from your insurer for property damage is time-consuming and annoying. But it helps if you have the right mental attitude: The insurance company is not your friend, but your adversary.



Homeowners on the East Coast are finding that out after Hurricane Sandy attacked and did her worst. Cleaning up the mess she left behind will take months and even years.

Even dealing with damage from much smaller disasters can take a long time. As an example, in July 2011 a severe storm with baseball-sized hail moved through southern Rapid City, where I live. It only took nature a few minutes to flatten gardens, beat up vehicles and damage buildings. It will probably take until the second anniversary of the storm to repair all the damage to our house.

Such a delay isn’t unusual. The most common reasons are finding a contractor and negotiating with your insurance company.

Moving quickly to report a claim after a disaster is important. In fact, you should probably call a contractor even before you call your insurance agent. Insurance companies are fast to respond to disasters and easily move adjusters in from other areas. Local, credible contractors, on the other hand, fill their schedules fast. We spent hours on the phone to get bids from beleaguered roofers, painters and carpenters.

These bids were worth our time, because they showed us that the initial repair estimates from our insurance company were low – usually by 50% to 66%. For example, our roof had cedar shake shingles. The company’s replacement estimate was for much cheaper asphalt shingles. Estimates to repair our siding and deck were also low. It took us 15 months to come to an agreement on the cost of replacing the deck. The work probably won’t be done until summer 2013.

Does this difficulty in getting a full settlement mean it’s time to switch insurance companies?  Certainly, I thought so more than once during the negotiating process. However, that isn’t necessarily the case.

Getting compensation from an insurance company is just business. And good business means not necessarily accepting the first offer. Negotiating takes time and effort, but it eventually should get you full compensation.

When you file a claim, you and your insurance company have competing interests. The company is not your advocate. You want as much money as possible from them for repairs, while they want to repair your damage for the lowest cost. There’s nothing out of place with either motivation.

Once I understood that the insurance company and I were natural adversaries, not friends, it helped me feel less victimized and more empowered. While getting the money we needed to make the repairs certainly took time and perseverance, the company readily acquiesced when we presented the facts. After all, their best interest also included keeping us as customers. We did not have to threaten a lawsuit or go to court.

Certainly, when it’s time to renew my home insurance I will ask my agent to investigate other companies. That’s just business. However, I won’t change companies just because I had to argue with this one.

Understanding your role in negotiating an insurance claim helps bring a healthy perspective to your relationship with any service provider. Unless they are a fiduciary to you (like an attorney, a doctor or a fee-only financial planner), they have no responsibility to look out for you. Someone selling you something has no duty to put your interests before theirs. Protecting your interests is your duty and yours alone.

When a natural disaster strikes, whether it’s a hailstorm or a hurricane, we are certainly victims of nature’s whims. When it’s time to clean up the mess, though, we’re not victims. We’re our own advocates, with the responsibility and ability to look out for our own best interests.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Aegon will create partnership with Banco Santander for sale of insurance products in Spain

220 million euro for purchase of 51 % of shares in two insurance companies


Aegon will pay 220 million euro for purchase of 51 % of shares in two insurance companies which will create Santander


The Netherlands insurer Aegon NV will create partnership with Banco Santander SA which will allow it to expand sales of the products in Spain, informs MarketWatch.


The agreement between Aegon and Banco Santander is concluded for a period of 25 years. It will allow the Netherlands company to use a network of offices of bank for sale of the insurance products.

Within the limits of agreement Aegon will pay 220 million euro for purchase of 51 % of shares in two insurance companies which will create Santander. The Spanish bank will found the company in life insurance sphere, and also the organization which will be engaged in other kinds of insurance.

"Aegon it is attached to business development in Spain, - the main chief executive of the company Alex Vinandts has declared. - Thanks to partnership with Santander we expect to get access to more considerable number of the clients interested in preservation of long-term financial stability during this restless time".

Now Aegon works in Spain within the limits of several joint ventures with local savings banks. In June the company has declared that considers possibility of the termination of these partnership.

Banco Santander is the largest bank of Spain and has more than 4600 offices in the country.

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Insurance Video: Let's look at weather eyes of insurers

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Insurance Video: Let's look at weather eyes of insurers






Insurance Video: Let's look at weather eyes of insurers


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Insurance Video: Let's look at weather eyes of insurers

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Features of insurance of risks of the enterprises of alcoholic branch

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The insurance companies have developed the complex program of insurance of the enterprises-manufacturers of alcoholic branch which includes such kinds of insurance, as insurance of property, cargoes, cars, and also insurance of responsibility of a commodity producer, insurance of expenses on a response of production and from a break in industrial activity.







The basic danger

For today each of stages of a logistical chain in the alcoholic industry represents certain risks for the consumer. Components of the end production realized by the manufacturer, such as, for example, bottles, stoppers, spirit additives-can be made by different legal bodies, be delivered from a different doomsday. Accordingly, there is a question: whether there is at the manufacturer at the enterprise a due monitoring system of quality of production? As practice shows, the reason of many risks consists that the manufacturer is necessary, as a rule, exclusively on such proofs of quality assurance of suppliers as certificates, licenses etc., and it, unfortunately, not always reflects a real condition of monitoring systems of quality of corresponding subjects, and is a guarantee of absence of losses.


We speak about what risks:


1. A tresspass of life and to health owing to occurrence of allergic reactions.
2. Hit in production of various foreign matters at a processing and manufacture stage. For alcoholic production a principal cause of losses, as a rule, is hit having chopped off from bottles in contents.
3. Inadequate packing, marks.
4. A poisoning and production infection-hit of various bacteria.
5. Other risk is ill-intentioned damage of the goods (both from the third parties, and from workers of the enterprise) which leads to a tresspass to the third parties, or creates such threat.

The alcoholic companies-manufacturers, importers, distributors-in the course of the activity can face claims of consumers to quality of made production. Insurance of responsibility of a commodity producer will provide protection of the insured in the cases connected with drawing of harm of life, health or property (including any straight lines and indirect losses) to the third parties. Here again it is important to underline that without dependence from, whether the owner of the goods the manufacturer, the manufacturer, the supplier or retailer is, he is obliged to compensate the harm caused as a result of realization of its production.


What is the insurance of expenses on production response?


Other not less important kind of insurance for the companies of the alcoholic industry is insurance of expenses on production response. Speech in this case goes about casual or ill-intentioned to production damage. Thus the response can be both voluntary, and compulsory. The insurance company defrays such expenses in case as a result of consumption of insured production harm of life and to health of the consumer is done or threat of causing of such harm is created.


Expenses on production response include:

— Cost of newspaper, journal or any printing messages (electronic or others), radio and television statements, and also cost of delivery of the departures necessary for realization of a response of production;
— A necessary cost of transportation and the accommodation costs directly connected with a response of production;
— Expenses for hiring of additional employees for realization of a response of production of the insured;
— Overtime regular employee of the insured for payment of the works connected with a response of insured production;
— Necessary expenses for rent of additional warehouse or places of warehousing for storage of withdrawn production;
— Cost of delivery of insured production from the buyer, the distributor or the consumer to a place defined insured;
— The expenses suffered for the purpose of correct recycling of unused packing and marketing materials on withdrawn production;
— Actual cost of destruction of insured production.


What is the insurance upon a break in industrial activity?

As a result of extreme events, such as the fire, acts of nature, etc., at manufacturing enterprises, as a rule, arises not only a damage connected with damage or loss of material actives, but also an activity stop. During time demanded for restoration manufacture to former level, the enterprise loses the income which it would receive if the damage hasn't come.

Solution of a problem of loss of the planned income is insurance about a break in the industrial activity, including:

— Operational expenditure / Constants (a salary, social deductions, tax payments, percent on credits, etc.);
— Profit loss (i.e. that profit which would be received during the period when lasted having rummaged in manufacture if insured event hasn't come).

Insurance of the enterprises of alcoholic branch becomes today very actual, being not only the guarantor of financial stability of the company, but also creating additional competitive advantages in the market. This aspect deserves unconditional attention.





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The Swedish insurance company Folksam has gained international popularity due to cats-jumpers


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The oldest Swedish insurance company Folksam has got the international popularity thanks to cats-parachutists: in a commercial of the company some pets in full equipment come down to earth, manufacturing in air various tricks.

In a 40-second roller to the spectator show about ten cats which with unperturbable muzzles and fur beautifully developing on a wind fly from heavens on the earth under a song I Believe I Can Fly. In air of a cat show figures and as if the presents skydivers, last to each other the shaggy paws.



As marks Gawker, the idea for a company roller was offered by one of its clients and simultaneously its proprietress (Folksam is the firm which shareholders are the persons insured to her). Therefore when cats in air manufacture figures, they make not the company name, and a name of the client about which the roller and acted in film – Eva.
As notices The Daily Mail, despite the provident statement of the company that cats at shooting of rollers haven't suffered, defenders of animals all the same have started to be indignant. Then it was necessary to open technology of creation of a roller, having told that for it «the green screen» was used, and cats actually didn't fly anywhere.



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