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Market Data

Raraunga Tauhokohoko

All Business 12 months to September

Year-End20182019202020212022
Gross Written Premium ($)6,320,894,581
6,820,298,460
6,897,756,628
7,385,627,542
8,189,746,007
Net Written Premium ($)4,273,100,623
4,600,036,897
4,517,330,839
4,930,964,108
7,785,232,262
Net Earned Premium ($)4,049,633,966
4,410,796,801
4,480,726,853
4,750,289,227
5,263,092,102
Net Claims Incurred ($)2,412,636,982
2,300,034,410
2,517,421,278
2,888,172,045
3,077,397,933
Loss Ratio (%)59.58%
52.15%
56.18%
60.80%
58.5%
Business Costs (Staff etc) ($)1,242,779,943
1,325,061,078
1,296,538,348
1,306,087,245
1,402,098,340
Combined Ratio (%)90.27%
82.19%
85.13%
88.29%
85%

Commercial Material Damage and Business Interruption 12 months to September

Year-End20182019202020212022
Gross Written Premium ($)821,348,477
923,276,042
979,281,814
1,093,272,307
1,201,708,026
Net Written Premium ($)439,060,052
504,556,262
527,352,347
547,661,350
602,334,439
Net Earned Premium ($)392,999,915
456,514,539
503,479,159
514,750,489
583,090,311
Net Claims Incurred ($)279,983,629
239,015,033
347,961,111
420,360,052
470,269,614
Loss Ratio (%)71.24%
52.36%
69.11%
81.67%
80.7%

Domestic Buildings and Contents 12 months to September

Year-End2018201920202021 2022
Gross Written Premium ($)1,785,251,411
1,864,492,475
1,902,866,076
2,009,771,452
 2,220,947,546
Net Written Premium ($)1,254,418,4891,273,910,939
1,301,841,590
1,334,832,688
 1,523,064,460
Net Earned Premium ($)1,208,555,4781,248,907,489
1,289,000,443
1,291,350,230
 1,414,349,181
Net Claims Incurred ($)703,854,646
609,379,099
716,797,927
916,353,639
 910,559,219
Loss Ratio (%)58.24%
48.79%
55.61%
70.96%
 
64.4%

Motor Commercial and Private 12 months to September

Year-End20182019202020212022
Gross Written Premium ($)2,089,081,449
2,246,287,211
2,282,750,043
2,464,961,938
2,709,803,458
Net Written Premium ($)1,664,815,3821,733,682,657
1,746,002,446
1,928,584,915
2,172,455,697
Net Earned Premium ($)1,564,914,747
1,671,167,121
1,697,379,453
1,851,677,161
2,054,544,563
Net Claims Incurred ($)1,139,574,076
1,159,798,847
1,129,207,364
1,247,400,746
1,421,224,843
Loss Ratio (%)72.82%
69.40%
66.53%
67.36%
69.2%

Marine Hull and Cargo 12 months to September

Year-End20182019202020212022
Gross Written Premium ($)136,255,756149,260,058
140,643,151
149,128,944
166,066,479
Net Written Premium ($)97,977,744
105,442,174
99,192,228
107,062,958
119,369,866
Net Earned Premium ($)98,062,171376,198,764
101,335,825
107,321,054
117,319,917
Claims Incurred ($)62,979,376
59,094,113
53,045,023
58,602,666
72,508,791
Loss Ratio (%)64.22%
58.96%
52.35%
54.60%
61.8%

Liability Professional & Defamation, Directors & Officers and Public Product & Other 12 months to September


Year-End20182019202020212022
Gross Written Premium ($)553,667,536
614,601,218
655,129,901
712,122,039
767,757,162
Net Written Premium ($)366,211,203
403,593,216
424,016,168
457,188,377
496,365,339
Net Earned Premium ($)356,371,538
376,198,764
405,724,360
428,155,685
465,058,063
Net Claims Incurred ($)114,795,055
147,256,363
156,504,156
167,186,378
149,647,436
Loss Ratio (%)32.21%
39.14%
38.57%
39.05%
32.5%



Earthquake Domestic, Commercial M.D., Business Interruption and Marine Cargo 12 months to September

Year-End 20182019202020212022
Gross Written Premium ($) 621,395,116
712,986,291
747,048,043
809,503,332
927,832,376
Net Written Premium ($) 287,214,134
341,415,779
314,945,636
445,297,394
476,755,747
Net Earned Premium ($) 275,669,622
325,014,849
325,131,607
431,178,293
433,809,962
Net Claims Incurred ($) 40,281,584
-37,340,918
18,517,513
10,479,716
3,767,894
Loss Ratio (%) 14.61%
-11.49%
5.70%
2.43%
0.9%

Other Personal Accident, Travel, Livestock and Other 12 months to September

Year-End20182019202020212022
Gross Written Premium ($)313,894,836
309,395,165
190,037,600
146,867,536
195,630,956
Net Written Premium ($)163,403,619237,435,870
103,980,424
110,336,428
203,213,832
Net Earned Premium ($)153,060,495
232,773,395
158,676,006
125,856,316
194,920,111
Net Claims Incurred ($)71,168,616
122,831,873
95,388,184
67,788,824
49,420,125
Loss Ratio (%)46.50%
52.77%
60.12%
53.86%
25.4%

Gross Written Premiums of Business Classes 12 months to September

Year-End2018 2019202020212022
Commercial ($)821,348,477
 923,276,042
979,281,814
1,093,272,307
1,201,708,026
Domestic ($)1,785,251,411
 1,864,492,475
1,902,866,076
2,009,771,452
2,220,947,546
Motor ($)2,089,081,449
 2,246,287,211
2,282,750,043
2,464,961,938
2,709,803,458
Marine ($)136,255,756
 149,260,058
140,643,151
149,128,944
166,066,479
Liability ($)553,667,536
 614,601,218655,129,901
712,122,039
767,757,162
Earthquake ($)621,395,116 712,986,291
747,048,043
809,503,332
927,832,376
Other ($)313,894,836
 309,395,165
190,037,600
146,867,536
195,630,956
Total ($)6,320,894,581
 6,820,298,460
6,897,756,628
7,385,627,548
8,189,746,003

Premiums

Gross written premium is calculated as the actual premium less all premium refunds and rebates. Premiums are recorded gross (ie no deduction for commissions and brokerage incurred in writing the income). Inclusions:

  • inward treaty and facultative reinsurance
  • all policy administration fees related to instalment billing and any other policy charges related to the writing and/or renewal of the policy.

Exclusions:

  • GST, FSL, and Toka Tū Ake EQC charges.

Gross earned premium is gross written premium plus unearned gross premium at the beginning of the quarter less unearned gross premium at the end of the quarter.

Net written premium is gross written premium less outward treaty and facultative reinsurance premium.

Net earned premium is net written premium plus unearned net premium at the beginning of the quarter less unearned net premium at the end of the quarter.

Class of Business

Total includes the total for All Commercial Lines and All Personal Lines

All Commercial Lines includes Commercial Business Interruption, Commercial Material Damage, Commercial Motor, Earthquake: Business Interruption, Earthquake: Commercial Material Damage, Earthquake: Marine Cargo, Liability: Total, Livestock, Marine Cargo, Marine Hull: Commercial, and Other Business.

All Personal Lines includes Domestic Buildings and Contents, Earthquake: Domestic, Marine Hull: Private, Personal Accident, Travel and Private Motor.

Commercial Business Interruption excludes Company Earthquake.

Commercial Material Damage includes Fire, Material Damage, Industrial/Commercial Special Risks, Contractors’ All Risks, Rural Risks (other than rural dwellings and their contents) and Office Policy, but excludes Company Earthquake.

Commercial Motor

Domestic Buildings and Domestic Contents includes rural dwellings but exclude earthquake.

Earthquake: Other includes all Earthquake business not included elsewhere.

Earthquake: Total includes Earthquake: Business Interruption, Earthquake: Commercial MD, Earthquake: Domestic and Earthquake: Other.

As far as possible all premiums relating to earthquake cover and all claims arising from earthquakes are to be recorded under one of the Earthquake categories.

Liability: Total includes all liability lines of business (Directors & Officers; Professional & Defamation; Public& Product; Statutory & Employer; Fidelity; Employment Practice; Bailee and Other)

Livestock excludes Bloodstock (see Other Business).

Marine Cargo excludes Company Earthquake.

Marine Hull: Total both Marine Hull lines of business (Commercial; Private).

Other Business includes Consumer Credit, Commercial/Trade Export Credit, Bonds, Mortgage Guarantee, Bloodstock, Computers, Engineering and all other business not included elsewhere.

Personal Accident

Personal Motor

Travel: Total includes all travel business.

Claims

Total number of claims is the total number of claims reported during the quarter.

Gross claims incurred include :

  • gross claims paid plus outstanding and IBNR claims at end of quarter less outstanding and IBNR claims at beginning of quarter;
  • all third party costs incurred in connection with claims (eg legal fees, assessors fees, claims adjustors fees etc);
  • indirect claims handling costs (ie internal costs incurred in processing and settling claims);
  • recoveries received and owing from third parties on all claims incurred.

Net claims incurred are gross incurred claims less all reinsurance claim recoveries related to those gross incurred claims.

 

Expenses

Staff costs

Include all payments and accruals for salaries for full-time equivalent staff, including contractors, and costs of all staff benefits and FBT. (Full-time equivalent staff = staff engaged for thirty hours or more per week).

Other costs; Include all other expenses charged against the New Zealand operation. Do not include staff costs, indirect claims handling costs and internal legal and assessors costs etc, as these are included in staff costs and claims incurred (discussed above). Internal claims settlement costs (transferred) include only the amount attributed to the claim.

Internal claims settlement costs

Shown as a credit the total amount of indirect claims handling costs incurred that have been transferred to the cost of claims above. This includes the proportion of staff and other costs related to indirect claims handling costs that under FRS 35 are included in the claims figures above.

Commissions

Net commissions and brokerage incurred (ie gross commissions/brokerage incurred in acquiring business less commissions recovered from treaty and facultative reinsurance arrangements.)

Note:

  • All definitions follow the FRS 35 definitions.
  • Accident Insurance Business (ie Workers Compensation) is NOT included in the data for this report.

Formula

Frequency per $1000 premiumTotal Number of Claims
Gross written Premium / 1000
Gross average claim sizeGross claims incurred
Total number of claims
Gross loss ratioGross claims incurred
Gross earned premium
Net average claim sizeGross earned premium
Net claims incurred
Net loss ratioNet claims incurred
Net earned premium
Expense ratioTotal management costs
Total net earned premium
Combined ratioTotal net claims incurred + Total management costs
Total net earned premium
(where total management costs = staff costs + other costs + internal claims settlement costs + commission/brokerage costs)
Proportion of business retainedNet written premium
Gross written premium
Proportion of claims cost recovered1 – Net claims incurred
Gross claims incurred
Frequency 
Quarterlyequals includes total figures for the entire quarter
Yearlyequals includes total figures for the entire year or rolling twelve month figures, except where the full year’s data is incomplete. Then figures are estimated, where Yearly equals (Q1+Q2+Q3+Q4)/n*4, where n is the number of quarters for which a company submitted data.
 

Natural disaster data

Data on the cost of severe weather events and other natural disasters can be found under Natural disasters or by clicking here.

 
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