Insurance companies suing state for more than €900 million

According to daily SME from 12/11/2011 three firms that own health insurance companies and could not make a profit from them, are asking the state for over € 900 million. Act, which prohibited health insurance companies to make a profit, was drafted by the Ministry of Health in the past. This year the Constitutional Court ruled that such prohibition was unconstitutional. Parliamentarians therefore authorized the disbursement. Financial group Penta, which controls the health insurance company Dôvera, is asking the state for the highest amount – € 750 million. Shareholders of defunct Európska zdravotná poisťovňa are requiring more than € 30 million and Austrian shareholder of former health insurance company Apollo is asking for more than € 131 million.