fredag 28. desember 2012

2012 - Bedret flysikkerhet betyr færre forsikringsutbetalinger


Airline Crash Insurance Claims Fall as Accidents Decline


By Robert Wall
Airline insurance claims for plane accidents will drop
below $1 billion this year for the first time since
1991 as passenger fatalities and aircraft destroyed
hit record lows, advisory firm Ascend estimates.
Claims for aircraft losses and legal liabilities this
year will total about $980 million, or $300 million
less than last year, Ascend said in a report. Claims
are almost half the $1.8 billion in premiums written
in the period, it said.
The International Air Transport Association said
earlier this month that western-built jets suffered
0.19 "hull loss" accidents per million flights this
year through November as the industry headed to
its safest year on record. IATA's figures didn't reflect
the Dec. 25 crash of an Air Bagan Fokker 100 jet
in Myanmar in which one person on-board died and
the out-of- production aircraft was destroyed.
"Airline fatal accident rates have been steadily
improving and, on average, operations are now
twice as safe as they were 15 years ago," Paul
Hayes, head of safety at Ascend said in a statement.
"With such a benign insurance claims year and
increasing capacity in the market, we believe that
premium income will continue to fall in 2013."
There is concern premium levels are "too low to be
able to maintain the market in the longer term,"
Hayes said. Premiums have declined for three years
and for 2012 were more than $800 million below the
2003 level when they reached $2.7 billion, the
highest in the last 10 years.

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