The Current Trends and Features of the Motorcar Insurance Market in Ukraine

• Main Authors: Sloboda Larysa Ya., Rudenko Zoryana M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Research Centre of Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine 2021-03-01
• Series: Bìznes Inform
• Subjects: motor car insurance; motor car insurance market; digitalization of insurance services; remote customer service channels
• Online Access: https://www.business-inform.net/export_pdf/business-inform-2021-3_0-pages-170_178.pdf
• ISSN: 2222-4459; 2311-116X

The article is aimed at examining the modern features of the motor car insurance market in a pandemic period based on the analysis of tendencies and challenges in the activities of market participants to substantiate the promising vectors of transformation of this sector of the insurance market in Ukraine. As result of the study, the activities of domestic leading insurance companies in the sphere of motor car insurance by types of insurance and its forms; introduction of electronic policies and remote insurance services; activation of electronic European protocol; settlement of insurance events, tariff and price policy are analyzed. The channels of distribution of insurance services in the sphere of motor car insurance are explored and approaches to the use of remote Internet channels of customer service and sale of insurance products are developed. In particular, through the use of telematics technology based on the integration of the means of telecommunications and information processing and information transmission instruments, which significantly simplifies and accelerates insurance processes. According to the results of the analysis, a number of stimulating and disincentive factors in the development of the motor car insurance market of Ukraine are distinguished. The influence of financial and regulatory challenges in the activity of participants of the motor car insurance market in Ukraine is determined and the key problems of its functioning in the conditions of recessive phenomena of COVID-19 are singled out. The proposed recommendations are characterized by a modern approach to taking into account the peculiarities of the motor car insurance market in Ukraine in the process of developing measures to improve its functioning through the integration of its qualitative and quantitative trends both at the macroeconomic (the State-controlled) and at the micro level – insurance companies and their cooperation with policyholders.