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Insurance Commissioner Dennis Funa (File photo) MANILA - The Philippine insurance industry saw robust growth under the Duterte administration, with total gross premiums rising 64.3 percent from PHP169.6 billion in the third quarter of 2016 to PHP278.7 billion in the same period in 2021, according to data from the Insurance Commission (IC). IC Commissioner Dennis Funa said the industry's total net income increased 64.1 percent from PHP22.85 billion by end-September 2016 to PHP37.5 billion in the same period last year, another indicator of the insurance sector's continuous and steady expansion under the Duterte presidency. As for the insurance industry's contribution to the economy, Funa said the continued improvement can be seen in the last four years. From 1.64 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017, he said the industry's contribution to the economy grew to 2.03 percent as of the third quarter of last year. "We will see that the highest ever penetrati