February 12 (SeeNews) - The gross written premiums of Croatian insurers rose by 10.42% year-on-year to 1.1 billion kuna ($161.7 million/148.1 million euro) in January, the Croatian Insurance Bureau said.
Gross written premiums from non-life insurance rose by an annual 8.22% to 880 million kuna in the first month of the current year, whereas the life insurance segment earned premiums of 224 million kuna, up 20.02% compared to January 2019, the insurance bureau said in a monthly report on Tuesday.
Croatia Osiguranje was the largest insurance company in the Adriatic country at the end of January, accounting for 27.52% of total gross written premiums. Allianz Zagreb followed with 15.18% and Wiener Osiguranje was third with 10.60%.
A total of 20 insurance companies operated in the country at the end of January.
Croatia's insurers earned gross written premiums of 10.5 billion kuna in 2019, up 7% compared to a year earlier.
(1 euro = 7.44422 kuna)
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