Life insurers’ claim statistics reflect SA’s high murder rate
Claim statistics for 2022 paint a startling picture of the health and safety troubles facing the country’s youth.
disability cover
Insurance gap increases only slightly, but not for a good reason
SA’s 14.3 million income-earners have enough life and disability insurance to cover only 45% of their total insurance needs.
How much more income-earners must spend to close the insurance gap
Alternatively, how much less households will have to spend following the loss of a breadwinner.
Under-insurance is greatest among those under 30
Yet younger income-earners will have to rely on insurance benefits for longer.
Big increase in fraudulent and dishonest risk cover claims in 2021
Life insurers detected 4 287 fraudulent and dishonest claims worth R787.6 million across all lines of risk business in 2021. This is a 34.5% increase in the number of such claims from 2020, […]
