AMIS offers free life insurance to health personnel due to COVID-19

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Sofía Belmar Berumen, president of the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions (AMIS), announced the launch of the Public Sector Health Personal Life Insurance, a responsibility initiative of this business sector to benefit health workers responding to the pandemic. by COVID-19. The financial instrument will protect 1.6 million health workers who care for patients with COVID-19 and the insurance will consist of 50 thousand pesos to benefit the families of health workers. Life insurance will allow the insurance sector, through AMIS, to act responsibly and show solidarity with the families of medical personnel caring for those affected by COVID-19. The beneficiaries will be doctors, residents, nurses, nursing interns, nursing assistants, professional and technical staff, orderlies, mayors, and attendants in case of death due to COVID-19. He explained that the majority of health workers do not have life insurance and it should be a priority to serve them. “We seek to join the public effort to get ahead in this pandemic.


We are working together between AMIS and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) to consolidate this agreement.” The insurance will be retroactive from April 10 to August 31, 2020, providing its benefits to the spouses, children or parents of the insured. According to AMIS, the company in charge of making the transfers America Cell Phone Number List will be Seguros GNP, and there will be no management of public economic resources, but rather it will be a business contribution. People who want to claim this insurance must write an email In order for the beneficiary to claim said compensation, they must deliver: Proof from the public health entity establishing that the deceased worked in the care of Covid-19 cases Positive result for Covid-19 of the deceased Death certificate During the morning conference this Thursday, the head of AMIS indicated that “the insurance industry is committed to Mexico and focuses its efforts on the protection of the most vulnerable families.” This business sector generates 40 thousand direct jobs and has an estimated investment of 1.



8 billion pesos, ranking as the third largest investor in Mexico. The also president and general director of Metlife México, indicated that insurance is an economic protection tool that is relevant since it contributes to the well-being of families, companies and the government. The AMIS in a press release reports that during  the first 10 days of the month of May, the amount of the payment for Major Medical Expenses insurance related to coronavirus expenses increased by 37.3%, going from 198.9 million pesos to 273.2 million pesos. . There are nine entities in the country that concentrate 89 percent of the insured people affected by COVID-19. Mexico City leads the figure with 362, followed by the State of Mexico with 59; Puebla with 42; Baja California with 40; Nuevo León with 35; Chihuahua with 29; Sinaloa with 26; Quintana Roo with 16 and Jalisco with 13 cases. For his part, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador highlighted the growth in support from the business sector and social organizations that support the country's social development initiatives.