SA’s largest private-health insurer Discovery said on Wednesday that an unexpected spike in mortality claims and costs related to the establishment of Discovery Bank hit its profit margin in the year to end-June.
Normalised profit from operations fell 3% to R7.7bn during the period, with normalised headline earnings per share (HEPS) slipping 12% to 789c per share...
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