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Costa Rican INS revives international expansion plans; double-digit market growth in Ecuador and Peru; IRB earnings decline 55.7 in Brazil

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru
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  • September 3 2009

As reported previously in this space, Costa Rica’s Instituto Nacional de Seguros’ international expansion plans were put on hold in May 2009 when the nation’s Comptroller General took the position that the INS was empowered only to partner with, not acquire or establish, foreign companies

Reinsurance prices down in Brazil? Costa Rican bank receives authorization to market insurance products on behalf of insurance companies; Venezuelan politician questions motives of opponents of new insurance law

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela
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  • July 30 2009

Eduardo Nakao, the CEO of IRB-Brasil Re, the government-controlled former reinsurance monopoly holder, recently acknowledged that the IRB’s reinsurance prices have hit a nine-year low and reportedly attributed the decline to increased competition from foreign reinsurance competitors