According to the data collected by the Polish Chamber of Insurance, in the period between January and September 2015 we spent PLN 356 million on private health insurance, i.e. 24% more than in the previous year.
In Q1 2015 Polish insurers paid life insurance compensations and benefits worth PLN 10.2 billion and non-life insurance compensations and benefits worth PLN 7.2 billion.
In Q1 2015, Polish insurers paid life insurance compensations and benefits worth PLN 5.2 billion and non-life insurance compensations and benefits worth PLN 3.5 billion.
An increasing interest in the private medical care in Poland is becoming more and more visible. The number of medical policy holders amounted to 1.2 million in 2014, compared to 850 thousand the year before.
In 2014 we bought via the Internet and telephone over 5 mln of insurances. We paid PLN 1.05 billion. This is over 10.5 per cent less than last year. Via telephone and the Internet we preferably buy motor insurances.
Insurance companies in Poland uncovered in 2013 frauds as to damages and benefits in the overall amount of almost 130 million Polish zlotys — it results from the latest report of the Polish Insurance Association.
In Q1 2014 we concluded 2.87 million of insurance contracts by phone and on the Internet. This is less by 3.27% than in the previous year. Still, we paid PLN 537 million, i.e. almost 10 percent less than in the previous year.
Health Consumer Powerhouse [HCP] presents the seventh European evaluation of healthcare in Europe. Disproportions in access to healthcare are growing.
PLN 5.8 billion worth of performances under life insurance contracts and PLN 3.37 billion of compensations and performances under the property insurance contracts were paid in Q1 2014 by the Polish insurers.
In the first quarter of 2014 the Poles purchased 1.69 million of insurance policies on the Internet or by phone, i.e. almost 3.5 percent less than in the equivalent period of the previous year.