SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s agriculture ministry said Monday owners of fierce dogs are obligated to have insurance packages starting next month, in line with the country’s efforts to protect people from related incidents. The measure will go into effect on Feb. 12, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The most common illnesses that insured pets are diagnosed with at veterinary clinics in South Korea are gastritis/enteritis and conjunctivitis. Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance Co., a South Korean non-life insurer, said Tuesday the number of pets insured by the company’s pet insurance product ‘Petpemint’ reached about 30,000 just [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean insurance companies will now be obliged to undergo deliberations by internal committees before exercising indemnity rights against minors and economically vulnerable people and the result of the deliberations should be disclosed to the public. This move is part of efforts to prevent the recurrence of a controversy [...]
Boston, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses to onshore property resulting from Hurricane Zeta’s winds and storm surge will range from USD 1.5 billion to USD 3.5 billion. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. Hurricane Zeta made landfall at 4 p.m. CDT on October 28 [...]
Boston, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses to onshore property resulting from Hurricane Delta’s winds and storm surge will range from USD 1 billion to USD 3 billion. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. Hurricane Delta made landfall on October 9 around 6 p.m. CDT near Creole, Louisiana, as a [...]
Boston, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that it released an updated Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for China to support probabilistic assessments for five newly modeled crop lines of business and a newly modeled sub-peril. This update also includes a new livestock module that adds [...]
Boston, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses to onshore property resulting from Hurricane Sally’s winds, storm surge, and inland flood will range from USD 1 billion to USD 3 billion, with wind representing the majority of the losses. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. After meandering across the Gulf, Sally made a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean insurance companies will start selling autonomous car-related insurance products from late this month, the financial watchdog said Thursday. The Financial Supervisory Service announced that the nation’s 12 non-life insurance companies will start selling new insurance products that can cover the risk related to accidents involving commercial self-driving [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A new non-life insurance product to compensate individuals and businesses for financial losses caused by the spread of infectious disease like COVID-19 is expected to be available late next year. The Korea Insurance Development Institute (KIDI) announced on Wednesday that it had started developing an infectious disease risk evaluation [...]
Boston, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses to onshore property resulting from Hurricane Laura’s winds and storm surge will range from USD 4 billion to USD 8 billion. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. “Although comparisons between Laura and Hurricane Rita (2005) have been [...]