The Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency (SEDDK) has published a circular requiring insurance companies to submit the parameters of the earthquake stress tests they plan to conduct.
The number of insured vehicle drivers in Türkiye is expected to decrease as motor insurance premiums increase, according to the "2023 Sector Report" released last week by the Insurance Association of Türkiye (TSB).
The Turkish insurance market has seen a significant increase in total premium production, acceleration in the digitalisation process, and intensified efforts to raise customer satisfaction, according to the "2023 Sector Report" released last week by the Insurance Association of Turkiye (TSB).
Compulsory earthquake insurance should be offered automatically to all homeowners in Turkiye with a sufficient level of coverage, a senior insurance executive has suggested.
The inconsistent performance of buildings during the 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquakes in southern Turkey has again highlighted the issues of enforcement of the building regulations, according to a recent blog published by the Global Earthquake Team at Moody's.
Educating the public about the importance of insurance must be approach in a more integrated way, according to Mr Uger Gulen, president of the Insurance Association of Turkiye (TSB).
The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) has disclosed that the compulsory earthquake insurance (ZDS) rate in the country is currently 57%, with the number of insured residential properties exceeding 11.3m.
Two-thirds (67%) of respondents in a poll in Turkiye said that they were concerned about loss of income for the short or medium term, according to the findings of BNP Paribas Cardif's "Protect & Project Oneself" survey.
Participation insurance (akin to takaful), which grew by 93.7% in the first half of the year, increased its market share in Turkiye to 5.5% with a premium volume of TRY21.25bn ($633.6m), according to data compiled by the Insurance Association of Turkiye (TSB).
The insured property market loss for the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquake Sequence is TRY116.9bn ($6.2bn at February 2023 exchange rates) at February 2023 exchange rates), says PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organisation providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data.