Lebanon publishes the names of intermediaries that failed to renew their licences
The Insurance Control Commission has published lists of insurance intermediaries that did not meet the licence renewal requirements. Thirty-two independent natural persons were named at the end of February, and seventy-two companies at the end of March, each with a registration number.
The Commission published the intermediaries that failed to comply with licence renewal requirements in two separate lists. The first is dated 27 February 2026 and covers independent natural persons. The second is dated 24 March 2026 and covers legal persons.
The natural-persons list contains thirty-two intermediaries. It has two columns: the name of the intermediary and the registration number. The registration numbers run from one to two hundred and eighty, meaning those listed come from different generations of the market, not only recent registrants.
The list of legal persons is longer: seventy-two companies. It carries three columns: the name of the company, the name of the responsible manager, and the registration number. The numbers run from thirty-three to five hundred. Publishing the name of the responsible manager as well indicates that the obligation is not treated as confined to the corporate person.
Both documents were issued on the Commission's letterhead from its address at Building 87, Riad El Solh Street, Beirut Central District, and appear in the circulars section of the Commission's official website.
The legal consequence of appearing on the lists is not itemised in the documents; they confine themselves to naming intermediaries that have not met the renewal requirements. This report carries no information that the licences of those listed have been revoked; the characterisation published by the Commission is non-compliance with renewal requirements.
The publication is itself a supervisory instrument. Insurance intermediation is a trade in which a name on a list invites questions from clients; here the Commission places public disclosure alongside administrative sanction.
For the policyholder the practical meaning is simple. Checking the licence status of the intermediary from whom a policy is bought can now be done by consulting two public lists. That check matters most in long-term life and health contracts.
The timing of the publication is also telling. In the same weeks the Commission sent its circular reminding intermediaries of the duty to observe the official tariff, and a few months later the bank guarantee required from intermediaries was reset. All three measures address the same link in the chain: the intermediary.
The Commission publishes such lists periodically; the one-month interval between the February and March lists indicates that the updating is continuing. The figures given in this report are the numbers of entries in the two lists named.
Whether the intermediaries named subsequently regularised their licence status will be traceable through the later lists the Commission publishes.
