The group fidelity insurance policy to protect the funds and assets of the Central Bank is tendered for the period from December 31, 2019 to January 26, 2022.
Honduras Government Purchase LPública No.32-2019:
"The exact period to be covered is from December 31, 2019, at twelve noon (12:00 m.) to January 26, 2022 at twelve midnight (12:00 a.m.).
The closing date for clarifications is September 20, 2019.
Between January and June 2019, premiums increased 4% compared to the same period in 2018, partly because of a 5% increase in health policies and 6% in group life insurance.
The latest data published by the General Comptroller of the Republic indicate that between the first half of 2018 and the same period of 2019 the premiums of the branch of fire and multi-risk insurance registered a 12% increase.
The Central Bank tenders the group life insurance policy and hospital medical expenses for a group of employees of the institution for a two-year term.
Honduras Government Purchase LPública No.27-2019:
"Hiring of a collective life insurance policy and medical-hospital expenses for dependents of members of the Social Assistance Plan (PAS), as well as employees not members of the PAS, registered in the registers of the Department of Social Welfare of the BCH.
During the first five months of the year, premiums of $643 million were written, 4% higher than the $619 million reported for the same period in 2018.
Statistics from the Superintendence of Insurance show that from January to May 2019, the three insurance companies subscribing the highest proportion of market premiums were Assa Compañía de Seguros, Compañía Internacional de Seguros and Mapfre Panamá, with 26%, 16% and 15% respectively.
Total insurance premium revenues in Costa Rica totaled $1.261 million in 2018, 3% more than in 2017.
According to figures from the General Superintendence of Insurance (Sugese), between 2017 and 2018 the per capita spending of Costa Ricans on insurance increased slightly by 1.8%, from $248 to $252.
In the first eleven months of 2018, premiums of $1.378 million were underwritten in Panama, exceeding by 6% the value reported in the same period of 2017.
The latest data from the Superintendence of Insurance and Reinsurance, detail that between the first eleven months of 2017 and the same period of 2018, the value of premiums underwritten went from $1.301 million to $1.378 million.
The Public Ministry of Panama tender for a collective health insurance for the workers of the Procuraduría General de la Nación, for a term of 24 months.
Panama Government Purchase 2018-0-35-0-08-LV-020577:
"A collective health policy or insurance will be contracted for 4,251 collaborators, which will cover medical services required for the prevention of illnesses and accidents, the care and maintenance of health or its recovery in case of suffering a guaranteed event, up to the amount stipulated in the Insurance Contract.
Three insurers distributed 52% of the premiums generated in January of this year, which in total amounted to $129 million.
In the first month of 2018, the three insurance companies that subscribed the largest proportion of the premiums were Assa Compañía de Seguros, Compañía Internacional de Seguros and Mapfre Panamá, with $32 million, $19 million and $16 million, respectively.
Representatives from the sector stated that in 2017 premiums totalled $627 million, which meant an increase of just 1% with respect to the figures reported in 2016.
According to the Salvadoran Association of Insurance Companies (Ases) last year's performance was associated with lower demand in some sectors, greater competition and a volume of risks that has not increased substantially.
Explained by the behavior of the Costa Rican market, in 2017 Central American insurers received $5.02 billion in premiums, 7% more than in 2016.
According to a report drawn up by Revista Desempeño Asegurador, in 2017 "... insurance sales in the region expressed an absolute increase of US $334.7 million, an amount that represented a rise of 7.1% compared to sales in 2016."
In 2017, net premiums collected totaled $1 billion, 22% more than the $829 million reported in 2016.
According to figures from the Superintendency of Insurance of the Dominican Republic, last year Seguros Universal was the company that registered the highest number of net premiums collected, adding up to $216 million, equivalent to 21% of the total market.
Explained in part by the increase registered in mandatory insurance, last year income from premiums in Costa Rica added up to $1.323 billion, 15% more than in 2016.
Costa Rican authorities reported that last year the largest increase was recorded in mandatory types of insurance, with interannual increases of 26% (¢28.4 billion) in Occupational Hazards and 18% (¢7.5 billion) in the Obligatory Automotive.As a result, this category gained a 1.9 pp share with respect to voluntary insurance categories.
The Fire Department of Panama is putting out to tender collective life and international health insurance policies for its operative personnel, for a period of 24 months.
Panama Government Purchase 2017-1-51-01-08-LA-000901:
Income from voluntary insurance premiums grew by 25% compared to April 2015, due in most part to the increase in personal insurance.
From the quarterly report by the Superintendent of Insurance of Costa Rica:
"Revenues from voluntary insurance premiums increased by 25% in relation to April 2015, reaching ¢265 billion colones.The growth of this type of insurance remains one of the main driving forces, but its growth responds, on the one hand, to an increase of ¢ 38.6 billion colones in the SOA, since RT premiums decreased by ¢12.9 billion colones.
Through eight financial institutions enterprises in the agricultural sector will have access to a collective crop insurance with Instituto Nacional de Seguros.
Some of the crops covered by this insurance are: rice (waterlogged, complementary irrigation and rainfed), squash, banana (organic and traditional), cocoa, coffee, Indian cane, sugarcane, onion, spicy export pepper, sweet pepper, beans, bulb flowers, leather leaf fern and hydroponic vegetables, corn, melon, watermelon for export, yam and taro for export, oil palm, potato, papaya, pepper, pineapple and plantain for export, Jaltepec burley tobacco, teak and melina , tiquizque, cassava, yampi, ñampí for export, and carrot.The list could be expanded on pending a study by the INS.