{"id":987524512,"date":"2021-06-02T03:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/covid-related-insurance-claims-could-hit-3bn-baht-as-cases-continue-to-rise\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:19:58","slug":"covid-related-insurance-claims-could-hit-3bn-baht-as-cases-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/covid-related-insurance-claims-could-hit-3bn-baht-as-cases-continue-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-related insurance claims could hit 3bn baht as cases continue to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai General Insurance Association (TGIA) said that&nbsp;the total amount of Covid-19 insurance premiums received as of May 15 stood at 3.5 billion baht from 9 million policies. This could lead total claims from Covid-19 insurance to soar to 3 billion baht this year as daily infections continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>However, the hike in Covid claims is unlikely to have a major impact on insurance businesses as Covid policies are relatively small with limited protection.&nbsp;Many insurers are managing risk by revising protection features and premiums, or stopping sales of Covid policies altogether.<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more read the entire article published originally in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/business\/2121675\/covid-related-claims-could-hit-b3bn-as-cases-continue-to-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Bangkok Post here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/nitrocdn.com\/TXGnHSzgVtmHZyFcCTmqtXBgbiQqZwCm\/assets\/static\/source\/rev-a5fdddc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/health-insurance-in-thailand-1080x566-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embassy.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about the Covid 19 health insurance coverage in Thailand? Please let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai General Insurance Association (TGIA) said that&nbsp;the total amount of Covid-19 insurance premiums received as of May 15 stood at 3.5 billion baht from 9 million policies. This could lead total claims from Covid-19 insurance to soar to 3 billion baht this year as daily infections continue to rise. However, the hike in Covid claims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2316,124,132],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}