New insurance tariffs: DBV brings expanded supplementary aid tariffs for civil servants onto the market. DEVK cooperates with Herzensache for enthusiast vehicles. Zurich launches Innovation Championship.

New insurance tariffs: DBV brings expanded supplementary aid tariffs for civil servants onto the market. DEVK cooperates with Herzensache for enthusiast vehicles. Zurich launches Innovation Championship.

According to a report by www.versicherungsbote.de,
The DBV German Civil Service Insurance has brought two new supplementary tariffs for civil servants and candidates onto the market. The tariffs BN VisB-U(A) and BN B-U(A) are intended to have expanded services in the area of ​​dental care and preventive care. Other tariff elements include reimbursement of costs for prevention courses and cures. The premium protection also includes a flat-rate birth allowance, which is also paid for fathers.
The matter of the heart. The underwriter! GmbH and DEVK Versicherungen will be cooperating in the area of ​​collector's vehicles from January 2024. As a result, all DEVK agencies now have access to the Lübeck-based company's expertise.
The general meeting of the Versicherungsombudsmann e. V. at its meeting on September 27, 2023, Dr. Sibylle Kessal-Wulf as Dr. h.c. Wilhelm Gulebier elected as ombudswoman.
Of insurance decision-makers aged 16 to 30, 56 percent already have private liability insurance, 32 percent have household contents insurance and 28 percent have travel insurance.
Bayerische is launching the new “Blue Invest” fund policy. Unlike common fund-linked pension insurance, this should not invest primarily in equity, bond or mixed funds, but in real tangible assets from the most important future sectors of sustainable transformation.
The Frankfurter Leben Group successfully completed the takeover of the Generali Deutschland Pensionskasse and Landeslebenshilfe in December 2023 after BaFin approved both transactions.
The insurer Zurich will start the fifth round of the Zurich Innovation Championship on January 8, 2024. The competition is aimed at start-ups that develop interesting innovations in one of four categories to drive Zurich's customer and business value.

As an economist, I analyze this news and see some possible implications here. The introduction of new supplementary tariffs by the DBV German Civil Service Insurance and the cooperation between Herzenssache. The underwriter! GmbH and DEVK Versicherungen could lead to increased competition as they offer new services and products. The takeover of the Generali Deutschland Pensionskasse and Landeslebenshilfe by the Frankfurter Leben Group could lead to a consolidation of the market and strengthen the market power of this group. The introduction of the “Blue Invest” fund policy by Bayerische also shows a trend towards sustainable investments in the insurance industry. The Zurich Innovation Championship could promote innovative start-ups and generate new technologies and services in the insurance industry. Overall, these developments are expected to stimulate competition in the industry and bring about changes in the offering and services available to consumers.