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Licensed insurance companies in Austria (2026)

VerifiedVerified against the FMA register, checked 3 Sept 2026.

The 72 insurance companies licensed in Austria in 2026, as recorded by the Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

Snapshot

72Licensed operators
3Life4% of entities
0General (non-life)0% of entities
13Cross-border groups59 domestically owned

By class of business

Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.

By ownership

  • Mutual / cooperative39 54%
  • Domestic private18 25%
  • Pan-European group12 17%
  • State-owned / parastatal2 3%
  • Foreign multinational1 1%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

Licensed insurers in Austria

Showing 25 of 72 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
Allianz Elementar Lebensversicherungs-AktiengesellschaftLLifePan-European groupAllianzVerified
Allianz Elementar Versicherungs-AktiengesellschaftUNot stated in registerPan-European groupAllianzVerified
DONAU Versicherung AG Vienna Insurance GroupUNot stated in registerPan-European groupVIGVerified
ERGO Versicherung AktiengesellschaftUNot stated in registerPan-European groupMunich ReVerified
Generali Versicherung AGUNot stated in registerPan-European groupGeneraliVerified
HDI Versicherung AGUNot stated in registerPan-European groupTalanxVerified
Helvetia Schweizerische Versicherungsgesellschaft AG, Direktion fuer OesterreichUNot stated in registerPan-European groupHelvetiaVerified
Helvetia Versicherungen AGUNot stated in registerPan-European groupHelvetiaVerified
VIENNA INSURANCE GROUP AG Wiener Versicherung GruppeUNot stated in registerPan-European groupVIGVerified
Wechselseitiger Pferdeversicherungsverein St. Georgen im AttergauUNot stated in registerForeign multinationalRGAVerified
WIENER STÄDTISCHE Versicherung AG Vienna Insurance GroupUNot stated in registerPan-European groupVIGVerified
Grazer Wechselseitige Versicherung AktiengesellschaftUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperativeGRAWEVerified
Merkur Lebensversicherung AktiengesellschaftLLifeMutual / cooperativeMerkurVerified
Merkur Versicherung AktiengesellschaftUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperativeMerkurVerified
UNIQA Insurance Group AGUNot stated in registerPan-European groupUNIQAVerified
UNIQA Oesterreich Versicherungen AGUNot stated in registerPan-European groupUNIQAVerified
Acredia Versicherung AGUNot stated in registerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
APK Versicherung AGUNot stated in registerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Atzbacher Versicherung Verein auf GegenseitigkeitUNot stated in registerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
austrion Life Insurance AGLLifeDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Brandschadenversicherungsverein auf Gegenseitigkeit SeekirchenUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperative—Verified
Bregenzerwaelder Vieh- und Pferdeversicherungsverein auf GegenseitigkeitUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperative—Verified
Eberschwanger VersicherungsvereinUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperative—Verified
Enns- und Paltentaler Versicherungsverein auf GegenseitigkeitUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperative—Verified
Europaeische Reiseversicherung AktiengesellschaftUNot stated in registerDomestic privateIndependentVerified

Full table for Austria ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Austria

Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.

Register source
EIOPA Register of Insurance Undertakings export (3 Sep 2026)
Verification
Verified against the regulator register · EIOPA export, 71 domestic undertakings / 3rd-country branches

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Financial Market Authority Act (FMABG); Insurance Supervision Act 2016 (VAG) · Institutional and insurance framework

    The FMA supervises insurance alongside other financial sectors. The FMABG establishes its organisation; VAG 2016 governs insurance supervision.

Verification log

Class and group inferred from name - see Master List basis columns

For B2B teams and AI agents

The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.

curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/austria.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/austria/insurers/pages/1.json