Pandemic increased the interest of Poles in insurance products
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“The less you feel safe, the greater the need for protection. The coronavirus pandemic has increased the interest in life and health insurance,” Małgorzata Sadurska, a PZU board member, noted during the discussion at Congress 590, devoted to how the financial market responds to new concerns and needs of Poles.
As Sadurska assessed, the increased interest in insurance products during the pandemic is visible concerning the 2019 results. According to various estimates, currently, around 3.5 million compatriots have additional health insurance.
"The public health service was burdened with the fight against the pandemic, in this situation many people turned to the private sector. PZU Zdrowie immediately reformatted its activities towards telemedicine and more specialists, while maintaining full stationary access to doctors throughout the pandemic period – so that our clients could use the full range of our services at any time,” she argued.
In the opinion of Małgorzata Sadurska, private health insurance is a necessary supplement to public benefits, and the growing interest in them – regardless of the concerns caused by the pandemic – is and will also be the result of the gradually growing insurance awareness of the clients themselves.
