Companies will be the main clients for health insurance policiesin the coming years as retail clients' financial situation will notimprove too soon and demand from this segment will remain frail,believes Frans van der Ent, country manager of Eureko, a companythat accounts for a third of this market.
"Health insurance will further depend on the corporate segmentin the following years. Retail clients do not seem to see a reboundtoo soon, but on the corporate segment there are opportunitiessince certain industries have exited the crisis. Companies in thesefields are starting to recruit again and must provide appealingbenefit packages to their new employees," van der Ent told ZF in aninterview.
Eureko head says the company's portfolio is now equally dividedbetween retail and corporate clients, but in the future thesituation with change in favour of the latter.
Gross premiums Eureko underwrote last year from health insurancewere flat from 2009, when the company reported turnover worth 9.7mlei (around 2.3m euros) on this segment, where it holds a 35%share.
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