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Porto Seguro and Itau Unibanco agree to merge residential and automobile insurance operations; Sul America and Bradesco next?
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil
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- August 27 2009
One of Brazil’s largest insurers, Porto Seguro S.A. (“Porto Seguro”), and one of the country’s leading private banks, Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. (“Itau Unibanco”), recently announced an agreement to merge their residential and auto-insurance operations
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
Standard & Poor’s releases report on Brazilian reinsurance market
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil
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- September 28 2009
Standard and Poor’s recently released a report on the Brazilian reinsurance market entitled "Brazil’s Reinsurance Market: What Has Changed in the Past Year?"
Brazilian market shows microinsurance promise, but regulation lags behind
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil
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- September 15 2009
Brazil’s insurance regulator, SUSEP, recently indicated that the timeline for microinsurance legislation has been further extended
Brazil’s SUSEP confirms requirements for purchasing foreign insurance, permitted lines for purchase in foreign currency
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil
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- October 22 2009
Brazil’s Superintendencia de Seguros Privados (SUSEP) recently released Circular No. 392 confirming the requirements for purchase of foreign insurance and which lines of insurance may be purchased in foreign currency
IRB maintains local reinsurance market share of 78.5, but earnings down 58.5 for first eight months of 2009
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil
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- November 9 2009
IRB-Brasil Re, the government-controlled former monopoly holder in Brazil’s reinsurance market, has maintained a 78.5 share of the market’s local reinsurance premiums since the market’s opening, but perhaps at a significant cost to its bottom line
Regulatory change removes prohibition against life insurers selling home and personal casualty insurance
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil
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- November 12 2009
In a move expressly designed to stimulate competition and reduce prices for personal lines insurance, the Brazilian government recently removed the previously existing prohibition against life insurers selling home and personal casualty insurance
SUSEP reports results of Brazilian insurance market
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil
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- November 13 2009
The Superintendencia de Seguros Privados (SUSEP), recently released statistics regarding the performance of the Brazilian insurance market through the end of August 2009
NAIC announces new cooperation agreement with Brazil
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil, USA
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- December 8 2009
On Saturday, December 5, 2009, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) announced that U.S. insurance regulators entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) with the Agencia Nacional de Saude Suplementar (ANS), Brazil’s Insurance Regulator for Health Plans and Health Insurance, during the NAIC Winter Meeting
ACE becomes sixth local reinsurer
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- Brazil
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- December 15 2009
ACE, through its local subsidiary ACE Resseguradora, recently received authorization as the sixth local reinsurer in the Brazilian reinsurance market
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