Research and Markets: Home Emergency Insurance and Assistance in Europe – Understand How Dynamic Competitors Are Helping the Sector to Grow

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/62d548/home_emergency_ins) has announced the addition of the "Home Emergency Insurance and Assistance in Europe" report to their offering.

Home Emergency Insurance and Assistance in Europe is a report and associated PartnerBASE database about the market for this specialized type of cover in ten countries in Europe: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.

In essence, the term home emergency insurance and assistance encompasses policies that are sold on a stand-alone basis, or bundled with household insurance, banking products or utility services, that cover one or more of the following home-related problems:

• malfunctioning of gas boilers, gas supply pipes or gas central heating;
• problems with plumbing, drainage and water supply pipes;
• electrical emergencies and breakdowns.

Key features of this report include:

• quantification of the market size for home emergency insurance and assistance: how much is the market really worth across the ten countries considered in Europe, how does it break down by policy type and by country, and how is it likely to have grown by 2014?
• identification of providers of home emergency insurance and assistance that have established relationships with energy firms, water companies and household insurers;
• the results of detailed consumer research covering the developed UK market including the perceived value and actual use of home emergency insurance and assistance in this market and analyses concerning the distribution channels used by customers to acquire the product;
• assessment of the degree to which insurance companies currently bundle home emergency cover with their mainstream household insurance policies: in which countries could this practice impact upon the development of the stand-alone market for home emergency insurance and assistance?

How can the research be used?

You may be able to use this report and the PartnerBASE that accompanies it in one or more of the following ways:

• appreciate the size of the opportunity in the market for home emergency insurance and assistance in Europe: in aggregate, this is a substantial market;
• understand how dynamic competitors are helping the sector to grow at a rate well in excess of the underlying markets for utilities services and household insurance in a number of countries;
• assess the position of significant national and international competitors such as almeda, Asitur, AXA Assistance, Europ Assistance, Fidelia Assistance, HomeServe, Inter Mutuelles Assistance, Mapfre Asistencia, Mondial Assistance, Multiasistencia, Roland Schutzbrief-Versicherung, SPB and The Warranty Group;
• the UK accounted for almost two thirds of the EUR 2.65 billion market value in 2010 - hence understanding the exact dynamics of the market for home emergency insurance and assistance in this country, and how and why consumers buy it, will provide indicators for how the market may develop elsewhere in Europe in future.

To view the reports full table of contents and for more information, please visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/62d548/home_emergency_ins

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