Tag: Insurance
Non-Life Insurance Market Thriving in South Korea
by anson on Jan.09, 2010, under Insurance
The non-life insurance sector in South Korea is growing at a good pace, mainly driven by long term insurance and automobile insurance. As a result, the share of non-life insurance surged from 30.33% in FY 2007 to an estimated 33.23% in FY 2008. Moreover, the sector is forecast to grow at a CAGR of over 9% between FY 2009 and FY 2012 due to the perennial demand in private health insurance.
We have found that long term insurance sector is steadily growing in South Korea, accounting for around 50% of total direct premiums collected. The premiums are forecasted to grow at a CAGR of over 6% during FY 2009 to FY 2012. The on-going demand for after-retirement protection-type products as well as health insurance products, including accident and illness, and medical expense coverage products are expected to drive this growth.
Besides, premiums collected in automobile insurance increased at a CAGR of over 10% between FY 2005 and FY 2008 as a result of increase in imported car sales amidst the shift in automobile market to high-end and larger car segments. Moreover, during the forecast period (FY 2009 – FY 2012), premiums are anticipated to grow at a CAGR of over 15% as the economic recession fades away. Consequently, there will be an increase in car sales in the latter years of forecast period.
To better gauge the future success of the non-life insurance in the South Korean insurance market, our report “South Korean Insurance Industry Forecast to 2012” provides results and analysis of various non-life insurance products like Fire insurance, Marine insurance, guarantee insurance, casualty insurance, automobile insurance, long term insurance and private annuity insurance.
In addition to this, since deregulation in 1987 the non-life insurance sector has seen many new entrants. However, the leading four - Samsung Fire & Marine, Hyundai Fire & Marine, Dongbu Fire & Marine and LIG insurance - still dominate the market, accounting for around 68% of all non-life insurance assets as of the end of 2008.
Why you need a car insurance?
by anson on Jan.21, 2009, under Insurance, Personal
Most of us need car insurance for our cars. Beside it is important for our cars, it is also important for us. With car insurance, you can have several advantages. Some of the advantages are:
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In some states, having a car insurance in order to drive your own car is a must. So without a car insurance, you are not allowed to drive your cars.
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If there is something bad or unpredicted happen to your car like an accident then your car gets damaged from that accident and needs reparation, the car insurance company will pay the costs of fixing your car. The amount depends on the agreement between you and the car insurance company.
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Also, when an accident happen to you, the car insurance company does not only take care for the payment of fixing your car, the car insurance company also will take care everything related with the accident like the police and the victim.
Knowing the advantages of having a car insurance, i believe that now you will consider of having a car insurance if you still do not have a car insurance but you already have a car and use your car for your main transportation.
How to choose a good health insurance
by anson on Jan.17, 2009, under Finance, Insurance, Personal
Finding a health insurance or life insurance requires one to search many things. This is because of the fact that there are various things that health insurance packages offer. Every packages has different benefits. You must find the one which is the most suitable with you. his is because of the fact that some packages offer lower and more affordable premiums while others don’t. There are also premiums that offer high premiums for a wide range of benefit. You do not have to pick the expensive one if you do not need the added offers. It is pointless to choose an expensive package.
Here are few steps that can help you choosing a good health insurance:
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Cost
You must be very happy if you can find the cheapest health insurance. Cheap health insurance package, the benefit that you will get also not much. But it may suit the best with your needs.
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Package offer
In choosing a plan according to what it has to offer, it also must be remembered that there are different types of plans. This refers to the length of time it applies for. There are some plans that are applicable only for a fixed period, which may be 20 or 30 years. There are other plans that could go on till the day that one dies, and expire when the person dies.
- Flexibility
Flexibility is very important as well. For an example, if the insurance allows you to pick the doctor your self, it will benefit you. If the insurance does not allow you to choose the doctor, you must consider more in choosing that insurance.
Choosing a good insurance is a major thing. Because if you are wrong in chooing it, you will waste much money for something that you can not benefit.
Pet insurance
by anson on Jan.04, 2009, under Insurance, Personal
There are many insurance companies in this world. But i just knew about a pet insurance. It does not strange if i just heard about a pet insurance since i am not a pet lover. If you also just knew about pet insurance, i will give a bit overview about pet insurance. These days, pet insurance is receiving a good deal of attention, both in the market place and in the media. There is a terrific reason for this. People seem to love their pets more than ever and having health insurance pet plan is a reasonably affordable way for people to assure that their pets will be able to receive the animal welfare care that they need. At the same time, such insurance coverage helps to protect the animal lovers from financial hardship in case of major health problems or accidents with their animals.
Pet health cover makes good financial sense for families. In exchange for a small monthly insurance premium, the greater costs of long term or emergency veterinary pet services will be taken care of by the pet plan.
While health care coverage has been available for many years and is almost considered a must have every individual and family, insurance for animals is still relatively new option for pet owners. For those who have many of them, it seems like a very important thing to have, since dealing with illness or accident for multiple animals can escalate costs quite quickly.
What you should do after a car accident
by anson on Jan.02, 2009, under Insurance, Personal
After getting a quote to find the cheapest car insurance, the next thing that you need to do is what you should do after a car accident. No one in this world wants to get a car accident. But if this thing happens to you, you have to know what you should do. Here are some tips for you when you get a car accident. First, right after the accident what you need to do is make sure you get all of your auto insurance information out. Now, after that you can take a picture of the scene. If you do not have a camera, you can draw it on a piece of paper. After that, wait for the police. You must be there until the police arrived, tell the police about the accident clearly then you can leave. Another thing you can do is exchange information with the other drivers about his or her name, address and telephone number or insurance information.
Second, reporting the accident to your insurance company as soon as possible. Tell everything about the accident no matter whose fault the accident was. If the insurance company of the other driver comes looking for you, make sure that your insurance company knows it already and working on the accident already. You might be shy letting your company know because of the added rates. The rates rises worse if they did not find out about the accident from you. After this, let your car insurance to take care your accident.
Factor that determine the cost of your car insurance
by anson on Dec.05, 2008, under Finance, Insurance, Personal
A lot of people think they can get by in life without insurance. You may find this thing in a poor country. In some poor country, having insurance is not a must. But this thing is different in rich countries like countries in Europe or America. In this country insurance is very important. In some countries or states, you will find that auto insurance is a must. Driving without auto insurance is illegal. Not having auto insurance is bad, not having a good auto insurance plan can be just as bad.
Here are some factors that will determine the cost of your car insurance quote:
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The car’s value
The more expensive of your car, the more expensive the cost of your car insurance.
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Age and experience of the driver
new qualified driver or driver under 25 years old, are deemed more to have an accident than the older or more experienced drivers.
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Where you live
Where you live will determine the cost of the insurance. If you live in a rich or best area in town, you will be charged more expensive.
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Occupation
Occupation may determine the cost of the car insurance. A teacher may pay less expensive than a manager or director.
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Driving record
If your driving record is good, you will pay less than a driver who has worse driving record than you.
Get best car insurance
by sugigs on Nov.29, 2008, under Business, Insurance
you’ve searched the phone book or Internet and have got the phone numbers for a variety of cheap car insurance companies. Now you need to get a good car insurance quote.
STEP 1: Call say 5 of them and compare prices. Usually there will not be a drastic difference between the quotes you receive from each one. ( Although there can be some rare exceptions , generally they have the whole market sewn up between them all ). Getting quotes on Auto Insurance can be achieved in several ways. The most popular is to go to a website and fill in the information that is required by the site to see a premium. The next is to go to an insurance agent of an established agency such as State Farm, the third is to go to a broker agent which represents several insurance companies, and the fourth which is not so commonly known and depends on state legislation is to self insure.
STEP 2: Take the second lowest quote you got ( let’s call them Company A )and take 200 euro/dollars off of it. ( The amount you subtract will depend on how cheap the lowest quote is )
STEP 3: Phone the insurer who gave you the cheapest quote back ( Let’s call them Company B ) and tell them that you can get insurance from Company A for 200 euro/dollar less and, 9 times out of 10, they will undercut or match the competition and you get your cutprice insurance!
This has works for me nearly every time! Good luck!
Isurance for your old cars
by anson on Nov.27, 2008, under Insurance, Personal
Having an old car is not easy. I can tell it is not easy because if you own an old car (more than 20 year-old car), you will find it difficult to treat your old car. Most of old cars have a problem with the engine. You should treat the car as best as you can to prevent the engine problem. And if there is a problem with your old car, you may have to find the spare parts to fix the problems. Because of an old car, you will find it hard to find the spare parts of your car. Even you still can find it in the certain place, you will find it very expensive.
Knowing those problems, you may think there is still a way to cover those problems. Yes, the answer is insure your old car. Of course it is not easy to find a car insurance company that want to accept old car. Some of car insurance companies may still accept old cars but with expensive costs. But since having an old car is a your pride, i am sure you will do everything to treat you car well. And i am sure any obstacle means nothing to you if you really love your old car.
car insurance business
by anson on Oct.04, 2008, under Business, Insurance
Car insurance business is the best insurance business. This business is good because in almost every country in the world, no one can drive a car without having a car insurance. In other word, it is a must to insurance your car if you want to drive your car. There are already a lot of car insurance company nowadays. But you do not have to afraid if you are interested to run this business, because in this business you still have a broad room to go in this business.
As an investor, you need to do some researches before you go to this business. First research that you need to do is you must find the average rates from your competitors. After you know it, you can give rates a bit lower than your competitors. With lower rates, people will be interested to your company to insurance their cars.
The second research is you need to know what do your competitors covers the insurance. As an example, your competitors may not cover the insurance in every condition. After knowing this thing, you can cover a certain condition which a bit worse that not every car insurance company dare to cover. Those researches are just an overview, you can add it or fit it with you.


