Fitch: German non-life insurance outlook remains stable - Fitch expects growth in German non-life premiums of between 2% and 3% for 2014, extending the same growth pattern for 2013. This follows the sector's strongest growth in premiums for more than 10 years in 2012 (5.1%) and 2011 (4.5%), indicating that the sector continues to maintain underwriting discipline through the current prolonged period of low investment yields. - Fitch forecasts that the German non-life sector will report a gross combined ratio of 93% in 2014. The sector reported an improved gross combined ratio of 94.8% for 2012, down from 97.1% in 2011. Fitch expects this trend to continue, although exceptional claims leading to a weaker gross combined ratio of close to 98% will buck the trend for 2013.