ECT to sell insurance through its post office network
The Brazilian post office Empresa Brasiliera de Correios e Telegrafos (ECT) is to tender out a contract for the right to sell insurance through its post office network.
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La Poste to Launch Two Insurance Products
The French post office is planning to launch another two insurance products. The first of these novelties provides insurance against accidents in the home – mishaps which, according to La Poste, account for 75 per cent of the accidents which occur each year in France. The second product, which is due to be launched next year, is a policy designed to insure its holders against the cost of dependence in old age.
Read MoreConsignia offers insurance
CONSIGNIA has entered the home contents insurance market in a bid to cash in on the millions of pounds in business still untapped in the lower end of the sector.
The group, which has 12 per cent of the travel insurance market, has joined up with the broker Aon and the insurer Royal & Sun Alliance to offer the cover through its post office network.
HDI co-operates with Magyar Posta
HDI, the German insurance group, has announced a co-operation agreement with the postal service in Hungary, Magyar Posta, under which it has set up a non-life insurance company.
Read MoreMutual insurers mobilise against La Poste
GEMA, the French association of mutual insurance companies, yesterday joined in with the ferocious opposition expressed by the FFSA, another association of insurance companies, to the supposed intention of French post office La Poste to sell car and home-contents insurance.
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