Vulnerable customers get special help

We are here to help our customers and the society we are a part of. Therefore, we launched a special telephone line – the sunflower line – for customers with invisible disabilities. This provides specialised help with insurances for our most vulnerable customers.

We are here to help our customers and the society we are a part of. Therefore, we launched a special telephone line – the sunflower line – for customers with invisible disabilities. This provides specialised help with insurances for our most vulnerable customers.

All customers must be able to get help

We are here to help our customers, this applies to all customers, including those for whom it can be difficult to contact their insurance company when they need help. Therefore, we have set up a special telephone line for customers with invisible disabilities – a sunflower line. The Sunflower Line has its own phone number and customers will be met by special staff who are trained to handle calls from customers with invisible disabilities.




Facts

The sunflower programme is a global organization that works to make invisible disabilities visible. Invisible disabilities include learning disabilities, mental health, as well as mobility, speech, visual or hearing impairments.

Specially trained staff

Our specially trained staff offer sunflower customers an opportunity for extra time in the conversation, where we can meet the more vulnerable customers in their needs. One of the dedicated employees on the sunflower phone line is the experienced customer advisor, Tine Dalsgaard, who has worked at Topdanmark - en del af If, for 17 years. Tine is one of the ten employees who answer calls on the Sunflower phone line on a daily basis.

For example, Tine has had an elderly gentleman who called in. He started cautiously by asking: "I don't know if I'm entitled to call this line, but I've had a blood clot and need everything in a slower pace when you explain things."

The elderly man had bought a new car and needed car insurance. One in five Danes is affected by an invisible disability at some point in their lives. With more than half a million private customers, there is a need for this special line.

If, for example, you have had a brain hemorrhage or a blood clot, it is no wonder that it can all be a little difficult. So, I take the customers by the hand – as well as I can through the phone – and we have a quiet and calm conversation where we take our time, Tine explains, and says that she has had 5-10 sunflower calls, where she also has to deal with the fact that the customers can get upset because it can be difficult with all the details.