31.   Fire insurance continued to be a profitable class of business as its claims ratio to earned premium income continued to record an improvement during the year reviewed.

32.   One way is to build up a strong and professional treasury department to invest all that cash that flows in as premium income.

33.   The industry had experienced rapid growth in premium income and assets mainly attributable to the buoyant domestic economy over the last decade.

34.   According to Chinese law, commission for agents should not be higher than five percent of the premium income as stipulated.

35.   But despite the growth in premium income, higher bad-debt write-offs weighed on earnings.

36.   But he said premium income in Germany is not expected to rise considerably.

37.   Due to sluggish sales of personal insurance policies, all eight firms suffered declines in premium income.

38.   Premium income from third-sector policies accounted for about eight percent of total premium income in that period, the INA Life official said.

39.   Premium income generated by life insurance companies in Shanghai has almost drawn level for the first time with that of general insurance, Xinhua reported Tuesday.

40.   Premium income was rising only slowly because demand from clients, notably in developed countries, was weak.