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No this is general insurance (motor, property, travel etc). It is also founder-led, which is an important factor, as the reason they started it was their personal frustration with the motor insurances.



Your experience in general insurance has nearly zero relevance to US health insurance. Their main customers are large self-funded employers and they operate under a completely different legal regime. Most of their business is no longer even "insurance" in the traditional sense.


OP's point is orthogonal to whatever legal regime is in effect. OP's point was that fraudulent claims are at a residual level. If anything, general insurance is expected to have higher rates of fraudulent claims than health insurance.




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