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  • German insurers quadruple sales of flood and rain insurance

    22 November 2021

    GDV has proposed various measures to protect more properties after Bernd

  • GDV predicts 6% growth among Germany's life insurers in 2021

    25 October 2021

    Retirement-focused policies are one-fifth of sales at present

  • European Commission to release €90bn of capital in Solvency II reform plans

    22 September 2021

    Greens criticise proposals for having "more holes than Swiss cheese"

  • Europe's insurers predict flood bill exceeding €5bn

    22 July 2021

    Associations in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands reveal claims estimates

  • GDV's Jörg Asmussen: flood images in Germany "shocking, difficult to bear"

    20 July 2021

    Warren Buffett's German reinsurer stress-tested specifically for 'German flood' in its SFCR

  • Europe's insurers dispense comfort, and pumps, to flood-hit communities

    19 July 2021

    Dutch association tells riverside homeowners "you're still insurable"

  • Dieselgate now German legal insurers' costliest event ever

    29 June 2021

    Losses top €1bn, but SFCRs show yet more reserving

  • Country profile: Germany

    16 March 2021

    Europe's third-largest insurance industry has survived the coronavirus pandemic so far, but continues to be plagued by low rates and poor profitability in motor and home cover, as David Walker describes in this special report featuring interviews with BaFin's Frank Grund and GDV's Jörg Asmussen

  • German insurers' legal costs in diesel scandal near $1bn

    30 December 2020

    GDV expects further cases as plaintiffs target more vehicle manufacturers

  • German trade insurers win further six months' breathing room

    29 December 2020

    Public-private umbrella protection programme extended to June 2021