HOLIDAYS coming up. Need some extra liquidity? Find out how!
HOLIDAYS coming up. Need some extra liquidity? Find out how! IF YOU HAVE PPR, PPE OR PPR/E APOLICES IN FORCE (RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN, RETIREMENT AND EDUCATION SAVINGS PLAN OR EDUCATION SAVINGS PLAN, RESPECTIVELY), YOU HAVE UNTIL 31 DEC 23 THE POSSIBILITY OF RETURNING PART OF IT WITHOUT PENALTIES: Exceptional regime in this period of a complex conjuncture: The Law 19/2022 of [...]
New Amplitude Insurance Website
New Amplitude Seguros Website New on-line services for Amplitude Clients It is with great satisfaction that we announce that our new website -www.amplitudeseguros.pt - is already available! With a more modern and intuitive design, you can now easily navigate through our services and the products offered by the insurers, consulting all the information in a simple and [...]
How can you be sure it could be a seenager?
How to guarantee that it can be a seenager? Almost all of us from the 50's/60's/70's grew up hearing about ourselves - Portuguese people - that we are quiet, with little tendency to make a big fuss about defending our rights, with a certain shyness to show off successes around money, little entrepreneurial streak and great [...]
It's time for holidays, for rest, but also for reflection on the world
Every year, during this time of pause, the question of the safety of the installations, the opportunity for preventive maintenance and improvements, and - not least - the updating of the insured assets and capitals are more predominant. In this last chapter, this year there is a special alert that affects us all: The rise in inflation [...]
Travel and insurance
We are back to travel and the planet is quite lively, whether for leisure or for work with the return of the congresses and international fairs that boost business so much. We come then to bring some important notions about travel insurance. Travel Insurance is a subtype of Personal Accident Insurance, [...]
Global Warming at the root of recent Major Industrial Disasters
The managers, thinkers, opinion leaders and global scientists who collaborate with the World Economic Forum highlight in the top 10 global risks, 5 of climate origin, both in terms of probability and impact, as shown in the following image (in the same ranking, there are 2 related to cyber risks, and [...]
The Insurance Sector
Insurance indicators (source APS, Associação Portuguesa de Seguradores, unless otherwise indicated) Evolution Jan-Sep2020/ Jan-Sep2019 Environment - GdP -4.7% (Jun) / CPI + 0.04% / Unemployment 7.3% Insurance sector production - 23.3% / + 4.3% in Non-Life / - 43.3% in Life activity in Portugal; written premiums, excludes reinsurance activity The Life branch [...]
Do you know when you should revalidate your driving licence?
First of all a useful clarification: If you have changed the address of residence in the Citizen Card, you do not have to revalidate the driving licence. The dates for the compulsory revalidations depend on the date you took your driving licence and the type of licence you have. Find, at the end of this article, the table that applies to you [...]
Cyber Risks and Insurance
The overwhelming majority of Portuguese companies are SMEs and in recent years, whenever the issue of cyber risks is approached, they would mostly answer something like: "We are too small to worry." Mind you, really worry, because the reality of today has brought incontrovertible evidence. AIG is one of the world's largest insurers in this field, [...]
Covid and the Insurance Industry's Response
The insurance sector lives from the economy and society and its primary function is to guarantee them. It is said that the first insurances arose out of the need for solidarity with the families of departing sailors in the early days of navigation over the great oceans, and that they were funds to which all the families of sailors contributed to make [...]
