‘Act now or pay extra €1k for insurance’

Families face paying as much as €1,100 more for health insurance in the new year unless they act now, a leading broker body has warned.

The health insurance plans of about 400,000 people — one in five of all such plans, are expected to fall due in January.

Dermot Goode, of healthinsurancesavings.ie, said many people failed to react to a renewal notice over Christmas.