Linkage, brokers partner on digital insurance

Linkage Assurance Plc said it will unveil digital service solutions and platforms that will enable its broker partners to reach mass population of uninsured Nigerians.

In a statement, the company said it will host over 300 insurance brokers at the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers bi-monthly Members Evening.

The company would leverage the opportunity of the Council’s bi-monthly programme to break new grounds in its relationship with brokers, it said.

According to the statement, the programme would be both virtual and physical and would be held simultaneously via zoom platform.

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Linkage Assurance, Mr Daniel Braie, described the opportunity as timely and with great potentials that would lead to better business relationship with insurance brokers that controls the largest chunk of insurance business in Nigeria.

Braie noted that the hosting of brokers forum would create opportunity for the company to discuss matters pertinent to the advancement of the insurance industry, most especially, at this crucial time.

According to him, Linkage Assurance Plc was incorporated on 26th March 1991 and was licensed to cover and transact non-life insurance businesses on 7th October, 1993.

He said, “Linkage, a leading insurance service provider in Nigeria with reputation for prompt and accurate service delivery, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, has repositioned itself in the insurance industry, to provide insurance solutions with a highly motivated and professional team, applying the state of the art technology.

“Through our alliance with reputable financial situations and growing investment in human capital and information technology, we maintain the professional requirement of a global reputable insurance company.

“With a total shareholders fund of over N26bn, and still growing, we have developed high competence in investment management, having grown our investment portfolio to over N31bn as at October 2022.”

He added that, “Our increasingly steady participation in fixed income, equity and debt instruments in both capital and money markets has produced returns resulting in appreciable increase in our investment portfolio.”