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Profit that makes you happy: Univé highlights cooperative difference with new brand campaign

ICMIF member Univé (Netherlands) recently launched a new brand campaign: Profit that makes you happy. With a TV commercial, which will also be shown on various online platforms and in shops, and four radio commercials, the cooperative insurer emphasises the added-value to members and society of being not-for-profit member organisation. “With this brand campaign, we […]

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Beneva concludes unprecedented employee consultation exercise to develop its next strategic vision

This week, Canadian ICMIF member Beneva concluded an unprecedented exercise, a consultation of all its 5,400 employees, the results of which will be used to develop the strategic orientations of the company, which in less than three years has become one of the leaders in the insurance market in Québec and Canada. To bring its […]

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Gallagher Re: Reinsurance capital grows 13% in half-year 2023 on improved investment and underwriting performance

Ahead of this week’s Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo, ICMIF Supporting Member Gallagher Re has published its Reinsurance Market Report for the first six months of 2023 (H1 2023). The report provides in-depth analysis on the capital and profitability of the global reinsurance industry in half year-2023, based on the Gallagher Reinsurance Index group […]

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Guy Carpenter launches next generation of its catastrophe analytics platform

Last week, ICMIF Supporting Member Guy Carpenter, announced the launch of the next generation of its catastrophe analytics platform, GC AdvantagePoint®. The updated platform features new technology that will improve the performance and efficiency of underwriting and catastrophe management workflows for its clients. The enhancement includes key new modules: Event Impact: Users receive prompt notice […]

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Royal London improves pre-sale underwriting tool

ICMIF member Royal London, the UK’s largest life, pensions and investment mutual, has improved its pre-sale underwriting tool to widen the scope of medical conditions covered from 60 to over 3,600. This change to a more flexible customer journey will make it easier and faster for advisers to get indicative underwriting terms. Advisers can choose […]

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COOPSEGUROS and its leaders recognised for excellence in insurance

In June 2023, the Superintendency of Insurance of Santo Domingo granted Ruth Soto Báez, the CEO of ICMIF member COOPSEGUROS, the only cooperative insurance company in the Dominican Republic, with a plaque in recognition for her dedication to service, empowerment of women and contribution to the insurance sector. Ruth Soto expressed her gratitude to COOPSEGUROS […]

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Intended amalgamation of ICMIF member Halwell Mutual with Dumfries Mutual

In June of this year, the Board of Directors of both Canadian ICMIF member Halwell Mutual Insurance Company and of Dumfries Mutual Insurance Company announced a unanimous agreement to amalgamate effective 1 January 2024, subject to regulatory approval and approval by the members of the two mutual organisations. In a joint statement the two companies […]

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Folksam sees risk of climate-related damage in Sweden double in 30 years

According to Swedish ICMIF member Folksam, Storm Hans is just one in a long line of events that have caused climate-related damage. Damage that occurs more and more often in Sweden, for example in hurricane Gudrun in 2005, the floods in Malmö in 2014, Storm Alfrida in 2019 and the floods in Gävle in 2021. […]

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Sygeforsikringen “danmark” launches helpline for young people

Today, Danish ICMIF member Sygeforsikringen “danmark” has launched a phone helpline for young people called “Ungelinjen” which literally translates as young persons’ line. Ungelinjen is an offer of a free consultation with a psychologist to Sygeforsikringen “denmark”s young members between the ages of 16 and 25. It is a collaboration with the psychology company Encounter, which […]

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BCCM launches the Mutual Value Lab research partnership with Monash University

Earlier this month, the Mutual Value Lab – a research partnership between Australian ICMIF member the BCCM and Monash University to measure the value that cooperatives and mutuals create for their members and communities – was officially launched in Melbourne (Australia). The lab is the latest addition to the Monash Business School’s pioneering Impact Labs, […]

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