Non-life insurance premiums totalled 4.998 billion kuna through August and life insurance premiums accounted for the remainder, the Financial Services Supervision Agency said on its website.
The Croatian insurers reported a combined premium income of 9.67 billion kuna for 2008, up from 9.05 billion kuna for the previous year.
Twenty-seven insurers operate in the Adriatic country of 4.4 million people.
(1 euro = 7.2948 Croatian kuna)