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Costa Rican insurance market starts to flourish
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- Costa Rica
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- March 18 2011
Costa Rica's local insurance market soared by 17 in 2010 as premiums grew from US$633 million in 2009 to US$739 million last year, according to figures recently released by the Insurance Superintendency
Latin American insurance and reinsurance update: Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador
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- Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico
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- March 2 2010
Aseguradora Mundial, the first foreign company authorized to sell insurance in the Costa Rican market, expects to roll out is first policy, an automobile insurance product, by April 2010
Aseguradora Mundial becomes first foreign company fully authorized to do insurance business in Costa Rica
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- Costa Rica
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- March 1 2010
Costa Rica's Insurance Regulator, Sugese, recently included Aseguradora Mundial on its list of authorized insurers, making Grupo Mundial of Panama the first foreign company with permission to conduct insurance business in the country's newly liberalized market
Javier Cascante appointed Insurance Commissioner
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- Costa Rica
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- December 14 2009
Costa Rica’s financial services supervisor, the Consejo Nacional de Supervision del Sistema Financiero (Conassif), recently unanimously selected Javier Cascante as the head of country’s new insurance superintendency, the Superintendencia General de Seguros (Sugese
Opportunity and risk in a "new" market
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- Costa Rica
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- December 1 2009
While relatively small in comparison to the major Latin American insurance markets, Costa Rica is the largest insurance market in Central America (excluding Panama
Costa Rican insurance regulator: INS is prohibited from operating abroad
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- Costa Rica
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- November 12 2009
The Superintendencia de Pensiones (Supen), the interim regulator of the Costa Rican insurance market, recently issued an opinion stating that the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS) and its component entities are not permitted to engage in insurance or reinsurance business outside of the country, whether by acquisition, establishment or joint venture
Fitch Centroamerica: the opening of the Costa Rican insurance market will not resolve the problem of illegal sale of foreign insurance
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- Costa Rica
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- October 23 2009
Eduardo Recinos, Insurance Director for Fitch Centroamerica, reportedly commented recently that the true volume of insurance sales in Costa Rica is obscured by illegal sale of foreign insurance, and that he does not expect either the opening of the Costa Rican insurance market to private competition or the creation of an insurance regulator to eradicate the problem
Alico enters the Costa Rican insurance market
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- Costa Rica
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- October 20 2009
American Life Insurance Company (Alico) recently received conditional authorization to operate in Costa Rica
Costa Rican INS revives international expansion plans; double-digit market growth in Ecuador and Peru; IRB earnings decline 55.7 in Brazil
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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
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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
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