The insurance companies operating in Croatia reported a combined premium income of 8.605 billion kuna ($1.7 billion/1.2 billion euro) in the first 11 months of 2009, up from 8.226 billion kuna a year earlier, the country's financial regulator said.
Non-life insurance premiums totalled 6.424 billion kuna through November 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 in 2008, up from 9.05 billion kuna in 2007.
Twenty-nine insurers operate in the Adriatic country of 4.4 million people.
(1 euro = 7.2854 Croatian kuna)