In 2021, GWP of Georgian insurers increased by 16% to GEL 772 million (~EUR 220 million), but the profit practically did not grow, as the Head of the Insurance Supervision Service David ONOPRISHLVILI noted, Business Georgia wrote.

Of the total GWP of Georgian insurance companies for 2021 in the amount of GEL 772.2 million (EUR 220 million), GEL 305.5 million came from healthcare, Business Georgia wrote.

The Georgian insurance market ended 2021 with an increase of almost 16% - GWP amounted to GEL 772.66 million (EUR 220.51 million), according to the Georgian Insurance Supervision Service.

As of September 30, 2021, profit of the Georgian insurance sector amounted to GEL 131.2 million (EUR 36 million*), net profit - GEL 31.9 million, which is 14% less y-o-y (as of 30.09.2020, net profit of the insurance sector was GEL 44.3 million), Business Georgia wrote according to the data of the Insurance Supervision Agency.

At the end of the third quarter of 2021, the Georgian insurance market recorded an increase of more than 18% y-o-y (in local currency), increasing to GEL 606.74 million (EUR 166.65 million), according to the data published by the Georgian Insurance Supervision Service.

Premiums paid by clients of insurance companies in Georgia amount to only 2% of GDP, which is about 4 times less than the world average. As Soso ARCHVADZE, an expert in statistics, noted, if Georgia on average lags behind the development level of the world economy by 10-15%, then its lag in the insurance segment is much higher, Business Georgia reports.

For the first half of 2021, Georgian insurers collected premiums in the amount of GEL 446 million (~EUR 119 million*), 40% of which were generated by the companies affiliated with commercial banks, Business Georgia reports.

Currently, in Georgia, real estate is insured only for 6.9% of the population, since no one insures property voluntarily - mainly clients of insurance companies in this segment are legal entities or buyers of apartments in the primary real estate market who received mortgage loans and are required to purchase insurance, Business Georgia writes.

The Georgian insurance market ended 1H with an increase of 19% y-o-y, GWP reached GEL 448.64 million (EUR 119.29 million), according to the data published by the Georgian Insurance Supervision Service.

The first six months of 2021 the Georgian insurance market ended with a decrease in profits, Trend reports referring to the National Bank of Georgia.

The Government of Georgia is considering introduction of a mandatory unemployment insurance mechanism in the country, under the new Social Code, which has been officially announced recently, Trend reports with reference to Georgian media.

At the end of the first quarter of 2021, the Georgian market increased by 10.47% to GEL 233.20 million (EUR 58.24 million), according to the data published by the Georgian Insurance Supervision Service.

Insurance brokers of Georgia ended 2020 with a total intermediated Premiums worth GEL 71.2 million, up by 37.4% y-o-y. In relation to the market total GWP, mediated premiums by brokers accounted for about 10.6%, up from 8.3% the previous year, data published by the market authority show.

At the end of 2020, the Georgian insurance market grew by 6.76% to GEL 667.28 million (EUR 165.85 million), with both insurance sectors increasing: non-life - by 6.48% and life - by 10.33%, according to data published by the Georgian Insurance Supervision Service.

The Georgian insurance sector ended 3Q2020 with growth in local currency by 6.52% y-o-y, GWP amounted to GEL 513.24 million (EUR 133.60 million*), as the data released by the Georgian Insurance Supervision Service shows.

Private insurance companies in Georgia join the fight against coronavirus. According to Devi KHECHINASHVILI Chairman of the Board, Georgian Insurance Association, insurers will join measures to help those with mild forms of the virus, Business Georgia reports.

MAI Georgia was the leading insurance broker on the Georgian insurance intermediation market, in 2019, holding 39% of the intermediation commissions cashed at the market level in accordance with the data published by the Insurance Supervision service. In premiums terms, MAI Georgia accounts for 32% of the direct premiums and 61% of the reinsurance premiums intermediated in Georgia.

Preserving the market achievements, remaining close to the customers and employees and keeping an open path for the future growth are top priorities for the Georgian insurance market in dealing with the Covid crisis, as the XPRIMM TIME FOR BUSINESS show's guest have revealed yesterday.

GPI Holding continues to lead and holds the largest share of the Georgian insurance market (20.62%) according to the half-year data, provided by the State supervision service of Georgia.

For the first half of 2020, the insurance sector of Georgia grew by 9.14%, to GEL 376.9 million (~EUR 109.4 million*). At the same time, the paid claims during the period dropped sharply - by more than 24% y-o-y, according to the data published by the insurance supervision authority.