On 30 June, the OECD published two reports:
- Insurance Markets in Figures, highlighting the COVID-19 influence on some of the developments in the insurance sector in 2020:
- Insurance companies experienced a slowdown in gross premiums written in 2020, especially in the life sector
- Claims payments increased in the life sector but declined in the non-life sector
- The assets of insurers remained mainly invested in bonds
- Insurers achieved positive investment gains in the main despite COVID-19
- Global Insurance Market Trends, the tenth edition to provide an overview of global insurance market trends.
The secretariat of Insurance Europe will continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19 from available statistics.