This special report assesses the impact of the crisis on the insurance sector and reviews policy responses within OECD … in 2009. The report shows that generallythe insurance sector demonstrated resilience to the crisis, though with some …

, governments and international organizations. This report focuses on the role of insurance and reinsurance companies in the … various environmental pollution insurance products and techniques developed in response to legal and factual evolutions. In … addition, it describes the special features of natural catastrophe risks, the role of traditional insurance markets in the …

Insurance data include: all gross insurance premiums and those relating only to direct insurance; spending on insurance … per capita; and the market share of national insurance by country, relative to the OECD market total. …

the difficult area of applying income taxation to the life and property and casualty insurance industries. Particularly in … the case of life insurance, OECD countries have pursued a variety of methods to try to tax the income arising in insurance …