Five insurance firms could be liquidated for failing to raise the minimum capital.
Pensions and Insurance Authority -PIA- which regulates insurance firms says the five firms where given a grace period to meet statutory regulations with regard to minimum capital for insurance companies.
Public Relations manager Doreen Silungwe says December 31,2017 was the deadline for raising the required minimum capital.
She says only 32 insurance companies out of 37 managed to meet the deadline.
Ms. Silungwe says of the five firms who have failed to raise the minimum capital four are general insurance companies and the fifth one is a long-term insurance company.
And PIA Registrar Martin Libinga says the five firms are not allowed to take on any new business but must conclude matters still on their books.
He told ZNBC that the regulator will take further assessment on the future of the five firms and appropriate action will be taken in due course.
In 2015, Government signed Statutory Instrument (SI) number 71 to compel insurance companies increase their paid-up capital to the minimum of K20 million from K1 million, long-term and general insurers to K12 million and K10 million respectively from K1 million , while for brokers it stands at K100,000 from K50,000.
Which insurance companies. Can you be specific
Killing local industries. That is what this is. So they want foreign firms to come and take up this space. Have the companies failed in their operations? I dont think so. Just putting in a condition to stifle them.
What kind of reporting is this! People are interested in knowing the companies.
imagine!!
Name these 5 insurance companies
Ofcourse ZSIC should be one of them without fail
ZISC ni boma
Please name them. You know how important this is.
You can’t say that only 32 out of 37 made it when the response is over 85%. If it was five who had made it out of 37 the sentence would have been appropriate.
Imagine you pay your premiums. A major natural catastrophe occurs, and many people go and claim for insurance benefits
However in the face of so many claims, the insurance companies close, leaving people stranded.
This is the rationale for the imposition of minimum capital levels that insurance companies must raise from their shareholders, before they are allowed to start business
Imwe. Tell us the names of the insurance companies.
Just group them into one for the sake of jobs.