Muang Thai Life Assurance (MTL) expects its new insurance premiums to grow at least 10% this year, driven by health protection, unit-linked products and wealth management. Sara Lamsam, MTL’s managing director and chief executive, said the company was less affected by the surge in claims from Covid-19 insurance and continued to see high growth last year as health claims are already included in the general health insurance policy so that the damage was contained. Mr Sara said the company expects to continue seeing growth this year through its “MTL Next to You” strategy that will allow MTL to ful…