Tag: Editor's Pick
Time for insurers to work together with government to maximise potential
Insurers attending the Organisation of Eastern and Southern African Insurers annual conference in Zanzibar have been urged to work proactively with go [...]
African insurance market must work together to deliver on continent’s potential, CEOs agree
A lack of both financial and technical capacity continues to hinder the development of Africa’s insurance markets and threatens to derail the continen [...]
Pools might provide answers to more sustainable solutions
Working together to grow capacity maybe the only way that the African insurance market can take control of its own destiny and grow to its potential, [...]
What do consumers really think of insurance?
Changing the perception of consumers towards insurance is a slow but steady process, warn a group of journalists.
All winners of the 2022 Pan-Afric [...]
Tragic cases lead to new form of insurance to protect low-paid workers
The death of a blue-collar Kenyan worker and the delay in offering timely medical evacuation to a Bangladeshi worker in Seychelles has led to a new fo [...]
Ugandan insurers paying out on more claims as market grows
Claims payment is critical to the insurance value chain as it makes insurance tangible – that was the message form the Insurance Regulatory Authority [...]
Customer resilience at the heart of sustainable insurance
The African insurance market has emerged from two years of pandemic at a bit of a crossroads, with many of the continent’s major insurance and reinsur [...]
Diversity key to building a resilient insurance company
Corporations must actively address gender parity and end discriminatory practices if they are to become sustainable and successful into a long-term fu [...]
Nigerian regulator getting tough on compulsory insurance enforcement, while moving ahead on risk-based capital regime
Nigerian regulator NAICOM is collaborating with insurance partners and law enforcement agencies to enforce the existing laws around compulsory insuran [...]
Kenya insurers eye single digital information-sharing system to cut medical underwriting losses
Kenya’s medical insurers want to set up a single system that will allow them to share information on a real-time basis in a bid to cut underwriting lo [...]