The Central Bank of Ireland maintains registers of authorised financial service providers which can be found at; http://registers.centralbank.ie/DownloadsPage.aspx.
A requested list of the 744 insurance firms that are regulated in Ireland for conduct of business rules is titled "Non-Life Undertakings operating on a Freedom of Services Basis as at 08 May 2014" and can be found under the heading "Register of Life and Non-Life Insurance Undertakings".
The latest public data in relation to insurance firms writing general and motor insurance risk in Ireland and risk elsewhere was published in 2013 in the Central Bank Insurance Statistics. The details of these firms are below. The latest data is currently being compiled by the Central Bank based on returns from the various insurance companies and will be published in the coming months.
The 45 firms which are prudentially regulated in Ireland and write Irish risk are;
Allianz plc
Allied World Assurance Company (Europe) Limited
Amtrust International Underwriters Ltd
Aviva Health Insurance Ireland Limited
AXA Insurance Ltd
Axis Specialty Europe SE
BMS International Insurance Company Ltd
Canterbury Insurance Ltd
Carraig Insurance Limited
CODEVE Insurance Company Limited
Coromin Insurance (Ireland) Ltd
Cuna Mutual Insurance (Europe) Ltd
DeCare Dental Insurance Ireland Ltd
Electric Insurance Ireland Limited
Euro Insurances Limited
FBD Insurance Plc
GD Insurance Company Limited
Golden Arches Insurance Limited
Great American International Insurance Limited
Irish Dairy Board Insurance Limited
Irish Public Bodies Mutual Insurances Limited
Ironshore Europe Limited
Kingfisher Insurance Limited
Liberty Insurance Limited
Lifeguard Insurance (Dublin) Limited
Markel Europe plc
Navillus Insurance Company Limited
New Technology Insurance
Noble Insurance Company Limited
Pan Insurance Limited
PartnerRe Ireland Insurance Limited
PI Indemnity Company Limited
Pine Indemnity Limited
Quinn Insurance Limited (under administration)
Red Disk Insurance Company Limited
RSA Insurance Ireland Limited
Seamair Insurance Limited
Societe D'Assurance Generales Appliquees (SAGA) Ltd
UK General Insurance (Ireland) Limited
UPS International Insurance Limited
Valiant Insurance Company Limited
Volkswagen Insurance Company Limited
Western Captive Insurance Company Limited
White Horse Insurance Ireland Limited
Zurich Insurance plc
The total number of firms which are prudentially regulated in Ireland and do not write Irish risk is composed of 49 firms which only wrote foreign risk premiums and 15 firms which did not write any new business in 2012, giving a total of 64 firms. This information is published by the Central Bank only on an annual basis in the Insurance Statistics and was last published on 3 December 2013.
Since then there has been an increase in the total number of firms to 67 and this was the number provided in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 30 April 2014. This information was provided by the Central Bank on an anonymised basis, as the Central Bank only publishes the names of firms on an annual basis in the Insurance Statistics. The revised list of firms is expected in October 2014.
The 49 firms which are prudentially regulated in Ireland and wrote only foreign risk are;
Acadia International Insurance Limited
Accent Europe Insurance Company Limited (under administration)
ACE Bermuda International Insurance (Ireland) Limited
Aetna Health Insurance Company of Europe Limited
Allianz Worldwide Care Limited
Alreford Limited
Arbor Property & Casualty Ireland Ltd
Arch Mortgage Insurance Limited
ATC Insurance Ireland Limited
Barclays Insurance (Dublin) Limited
CACI Non-Life Limited
Carrefour Insurance Limited
Catalina Insurance Ireland Limited
Chartis Excess Limited
Classic Brand (Europe) Limited
ENI Insurance Limited
Equinox CA Europe Limited
Esprit Insurance Ltd
European Insurance Risk Excess Ltd
FDI Insurance Ltd
Greenval Insurance Company Limited
Hitachi Capital Insurance Europe Limited
INEOS Insurance Limited
KPN Insurance Company Ltd
Martinsurance Teoranta
MBDA Insurance Limited
Medical Insurance Company Limited
MetLife Europe Insurance Limited
Miripro Insurance Company Ltd
National Grid Insurance Company (Ireland) Ltd
Newell Insurance Limited
NEWWATER INSURANCE LIMITED
Nokatus Insurance Company Ltd
Orkla Insurance Company Ltd
Overseas NEIL Limited
Petroswede Insurance Company Limited
Pharma International Insurance Limited
Philip Morris International Insurance (Ireland) Limited
PMI Mortgage Insurance Company Limited
Preem Insurance Company Limited
Probus Insurance Company Europe Ltd
RSIF International Limited
Santander Insurance Europe Limited
Sasol International Insurance Ltd
TCS Insurance Company of Ireland Ltd
The Baxendale Insurance Company Ltd
Vishay Insurance Ltd
Wagram Insurance Company Limited
Yara Insurance Ltd
The 15 firms which are prudentially regulated in Ireland and did not write any new business in 2012 are;
Baltimore Insurance Ltd
Bavaria Insurance Company Ltd
Beech Hill Insurance Limited
CBL Insurance Europe Limited
Delphi Insurance Limited
Deutsche Post Insurance Ltd
Dornoch International Insurance Limited
Inveralmond Insurance Limited
Irish Permanent Property Company Limited
Nautilus Insurance (Europe) Limited
Standard Trane Insurance Ireland Ltd
Tetra Laval Insurance Company Ltd
Trans-Europe Assurance Limited
W.T.C.D. Insurance Corporation Limited
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