Grupo Unity, a regional insurance broker in Central America, will be acquired by Willis Towers Watson, a company specializing in risk management and insurance brokerage.
According to a press release from Willis Towers Watson, the objective of the transaction "...is to increase the reach, scale and talent of Willis Towers Watson in the Latin American region, both for the Corporate Risk and Brokerage (CRB) segment, and for Human Capital and Benefits (HCB)."
Except for Nicaragua, which projects a decline in revenues, Fitch Ratings estimates that by year-end the region's insurance markets will have grown from 3% to 8%.
According to the report Perspectives of Insurance Industry in Central America, prepared by the rating agency Fitch Ratings, El Salvador will be the market that in 2019 will register more dynamism in the region, reporting an 8% increase over revenues reported in 2018.
The Honduran Banking and Insurance Commission tenders the fire insurance policy and related lines for furniture and office equipment, electronic fixed and portable, for the years 2020 and 2021.
Customers who are guided by immediacy and technology, who are also more focused on travel than buying health or life insurance, force insurers to reinvent their processes to continue increasing their sales.
Because the population group known as the "millennials," which is made up of customers who like to keep up with the buying process and are not willing to wait, companies must transform to keep up with their sales pace.
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.
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.
Fitch Ratings forecasts that the insurance sector in Central America will close 2018 with a year-on-year increase of almost 6% and expects that in 2019 the business will reach a very similar growth rate.
The projected increase for 2018 and 2019 would be based on the behavior of the Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala markets, however, the increases of 5.8% and 6.1% forecast for 2018 and 2019, respectively, would represent a slowdown regarding the 8.2% growth registered in 2017.
In Honduras, the insurance policy for 137 vehicles, the satellite monitoring service for 129 units and preventive and corrective maintenance for another 137 are being tendered.
The Judicial Power in Honduras is putting out to tender collective life insurance and medical hospital policies for the institution's officials and employees at the national level.
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