Nairobi, April 2 -- APA Insurance is set to replace CIC Insurance as the lead insurer of the multi-billion shillings medical scheme for police and prison officers amid complaints about the slow pace of processing of claims.

In changes announced by Medical Administrators Kenya Limited (MAKL), which oversees the medical schemes for police and prison officers in grades F to T, APA will take over the Sh8.67 billion scheme along with Britam and Jubilee for the next nine months of the remaining contract period.

It is not clear why CIC has been dropped with under a year left on the contract it had bagged as the lead consortium that also included Britam General Insurance Company and Old Mutual General Insurance.

There have been widespread comp...