Experience You Can Trust
HanseMerkur is a well-established insurer in Germany, specializing in health and travel insurance. It’s the second oldest health insurer in the country and offers both supplementary and comprehensive private health insurance. The company has a premium income exceeding two billion euros, marking it as a financially robust medium-sized insurer. Its business segments include health and long-term care, risk and old-age provision, travel and leisure, and property and accident insurance.
Key Points:
- Founded around 150 years ago, HanseMerkur has evolved into a modern entity with over 2,400 employees and independent agents.
- A significant portion of the German population, one in seven citizens, is insured by HanseMerkur.
- The parent company is a mutual insurance association (VVaG), focusing on customer and employee commitment.
- The company reported a premium income of EUR 1,965.8 million in 2023.
- HanseMerkur Krankenversicherung AG has grown consistently in recent years, with 9,400 new policyholders in 2023.
- The company is one of Germany’s largest private supplementary health insurance providers, collaborating with organizations like DAK-Gesundheit and Hamburger Sparkasse.
- HanseMerkur Reiseversicherung AG is a major player in the tourism insurance market in Germany.
- Future goals include becoming a leading pet insurer.
- In 2024 HanseMerkur Global celebrates 20 years of offering IPMI products to expatriates outside Europe.
The Group
As a medium-sized personal insurer, HanseMerkur Krankenversicherung AG (HanseMerkur Health Insurance AG) has been offering its customers security, predictability and reliability since 1969. This financially secure and growth-oriented company has achieved its present independent and strong position in the market and developed into an efficient medium sized personal insurer thanks to various acquisitions of existing customer lists and its dynamic sales activities.
The insurance group’s roots dating back more than 130 years lie in health insurance, and is still the company’s largest area of activity. As a specialist in the field of private complementary insurance, HanseMerkur Health Insurance AG has established a name for itself throughout the whole of Germany.
The HanseMerkur Insurance Group has also established its position in the market through its innovative all-round health insurance premium rates that offer additional benefits for women, children and high-earning employees and the self-employed. Its leading role in reimbursing the costs of naturopathic medical treatment, for which demand is increasing ever more strongly, should also be mentioned. The HanseMerkur Insurance Group is also leading the way with its active health management and an advisory service for its customers, for example its health telephone helpline to specialist doctors at local rates and one of the most comprehensive health portals on the internet.
The HanseMerkur Insurance Group is also the second largest travel insurer in Germany through its entity HanseMerkur Reiseversicherung AG and the only independent insurance company in Hamburg’s financial centre that is independent of any group that operates throughout the whole of Germany. HanseMerkur Travel Insurance AG was established in 1977 with its focus primarily on the travel business has become number two among German travel insurance companies in recent years.
Experience in the Middle East
The Group has developed significant experience in the GCC region by providing reinsurance through distributors for various health insurance products in the United Arab Emirates since January 2004. Reinsurance in the GCC region is carried out by HanseMerkur Travel Insurance AG.
Contact
P. O. Box: 506901
Central Park Towers, Level 20, Office 20-43
Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971 (0) 4 276 53 84
E-Mail: info@hansemerkur-global.com
Imprint
Address and Company Data:
HanseMerkur Global Insurance Management (DIFC) Limited
Address:
P. O. Box: 506901
Central Park Towers, Level 20, Office 20 43
Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971 (0) 4 276 53 84
E-Mail: info@hansemerkur-global.com
HanseMerkur Global Insurance Management (DIFC) Limited is regulated by the DFSA.
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