05.12.2014

Corsar Online, the company behind cel.ro, one of the largest computer and electronics retailers in Romania, expects a 60% surge in sales to EUR40 million this year, after adding mandatory car more

05.12.2014

Confusion as to how many employees there are in Romania increased at the end of last week after a report of the National Trade Union Bloc, one of the most powerful trade union organizations in the more

05.09.2014

Premiums on mandatory car insurance RCA and mandatory home insurance could get more expensive in the upcoming period as insurance companies don't have enough resources to cover damage claims, said more

04.16.2014

Romania’s life and non-life (general) insurance underwritten premiums reached 1.39 billion lei (EUR0.31 billion) in the first two months of 2014, up 1.8% from the year-earlier period, according to more

04.16.2014

Households and companies in Romania held banking deposits guaranteed through the domestic depositor insurance scheme worth the equivalent of 159 billion lei (around EUR35 billion), namely a little more

04.03.2014

BCR Asigurari de Viata will provide health insurance services for the 5,000 employees of Romanian natural gas pipeline operator Transgaz Medias (TGN.RO) for the next for years, under a EUR4.94 more

03.25.2014

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Romania recover below 2% of the money owed by their insolvent clients and it can take more than two years to recover the money, according to credit more

03.20.2014

The brokerage rate of insurance premiums in Romania will exceed 50% this year, from 47% in 2013, as demand for consultancy rises, while the insurance market will stagnate, as it did in 2013, said more

03.17.2014

The Financial Supervisory Authority should be dissolved, Cristian Constantinescu, one of the most experienced specialists in the insurance industry in Romania, told ZF in an interview. more

03.13.2014

The Romanian insurance market reached RON8.29 billion in 2013, just 0.4% higher than in 2012, and the sector's contribution to the gross domestic product dropped to 1.31% from 1.4% in 2012, the more

03.05.2014

The Romanian insurance market holds a modest share in the country’s gross domestic product and the situation will not change unless insurance companies launch policies adjusted to match clients’ more

03.04.2014

The Romanian subsidiary of French group Groupama underwrote premiums worth EUR165 million in 2013, down 10% on the year, due to the tighter underwriting policy, according to the group's financial more

03.04.2014

Austrian-held Uniqa, which owns two insurers in Romania, last year registered net premium income worth EUR68 million on the local market, 30% higher than in 2012. more

02.28.2014

French-held insurer AXA, which decided to pull out from Romania at the end of last year, booked a EUR26 million loss on the sale of its local life insurance operations, its annual report reveals. It more

02.27.2014

German insurance group Allianz Thursday said it underwrote gross premiums on the general insurance segment of EUR209 million in Romania in 2013, up 2.4% from EUR204 million in 2012. more

01.30.2014

Insurance companies in Romania underwrote premiums of 8.24 billion (EUR1.82 billion) in 2013, according to provisional data, which is close to RON8.26 billion registered in 2012. more

01.28.2014

Romania’s antitrust watchdog has started an investigation into the local car insurance market. more

01.27.2014

Romania’s general insurance market is expected to face another rough year in 2014, just like in 2013, and the evolution of underwritten premiums is envisaged between -2% and +3%, representatives of more

01.27.2014

Romania’s life insurance underwritten premiums are expected to stagnate or grow by up to 5% in 2014, considering that the revenues of companies operating this segment fell 8% to 1.52 billion lei more

01.24.2014

The Romanian units of French carmaker Renault and hypermarket chain Auchan, which have 27,000 employees between them, signed contracts early this year that introduced medical insurance from private more

01.20.2014

The portfolio of the Romanian Pool of Insurance against Natural Disasters (PAID) rose by 120% last year, from 330,103 to over 727,000 contracts, after it closed partnerships with 20 insurers. more

01.13.2014

AXA Life Insurance will provide voluntary health insurance to employees of power grid Transelectrica until October 2016 under a RON6.99 million contract, according to public procurement website more

12.30.2013

The Romanian insurance market will have another difficult year, as chances for growth to resume are slim and sales of policies will most likely be flat in 2014, most insurance company officials say. more

12.23.2013

Insurance companies in Romania issued policies worth 6.8 billion lei (EUR1.5 billion) between January and October 2013, flat from the same period a year ago, according to the country's Financial more

12.20.2013

The institutions in charge of pensions, health insurance and highways, which have total budgets of over EUR17 billion, are run by three executives who have been politically appointed by ruling more