Analysis the Performance of Life Insurance in Private Insurance Companies: The Case of Nile Insurance Company

Abstract

Insurance business was introduced into Ethiopia based on mutual assistances and its modern form traces back to 1905, when bank of Abyssinia began to underwrite fire and marine insurance policy, as an agent to foreign insurance company. The general objective of the study was to analysis the insurance services in the Nile Insurance Company by giving special attention focusing on life insurance. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire. In addition, secondary data were extracted from relevant sources to supplement the data obtained from the survey. The result of this study reveals that gross written premium and net written premium showed on increasing trend. But there is an ups and down of the percentage change because of unhealthy completion between non private and other private insurance companies. Secondly even if there are new classes of life insurance that was sold in Nile Insurance Company, the structure of life insurance in terms of diversification of the source of revenues is limited to small classes of the business. The amount of the premium collected and claims paid in these classes of the insurance is not proportionally distributed. The end result of the data also shows that there is a direct correlation between premium collections and the claim payments i.e. the classes of life insurance which contributes the large amount also incur higher claims (cost).

Key words: Analysis, Life Insurance, Nile Insurance Company, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia