UK becomes second largest insurance market claims report
Figures released from International Financial Services London today claim that the UK insurance market overtook Japan in 2007 to become the second largest global centre for insurance after the US with 11% of global premium income.
This was due to a combination of factors including faster growth of new long-term insurance business in the UK than in Japan; better performing equity markets during the year in the UK, and faster
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