While making a claim under group personal accident insurance, the employer needs to give complete personal information with required documents. Claims can be rejected if the documentation is incorrect, or the claim involves an excluded condition The infographic below explains how SecureNow offers an easy claim process. This policy can also provide tax benefits to […]
Articles Tagged: claim settelment
You can challenge the rejection of a health insurance claim
Published in Mint on Aug 23 2016, Written by Abhishek Bondia Reports from the pre-issuance medical test and doctors’ consultation are expected to identify pre-existing ailments My mother, 52, has been diabetic for the past 5-6 years. She has a family floater health insurance and I am the sponsor. Her condition was declared at the […]
Go for insurers with claim settlement ratio of 85% or more
Published in Mint on Aug 16 2016, Written by Abhishek Bondia I am 50 years old and want to buy a term plan. Kindly suggest a suitable one. —Surendra Khemka You need to consider a few variables before finalising a plan. These include: sum assured, policy term and optional riders. Typically, a minimum sum assured […]
For a smoother claims settlement process
Published in Mint on Jun 03 2016 Reasons for a health insurance claim being delayed or rejected altogether range from administrative delays by hospitals to poor documentation, further enquiries by the insurer or even poor understanding of a policy by the policyholder. But you can prevent the claims process from turning sour by arming […]
Look at the claim settlement track record of insurers before choosing to buy from one
Published in Mint on April 09 2017, Written by Abhishek Bondia Some months ago, two of my office colleagues had bereavements in their families and they filed claims for term insurance plans. From what they told me, in one case the claims process was very smooth, in the other there were endless rounds of querying, calls […]
Life insurers are settling more claims
Published in Mint on Feb 02 2015 According to the latest annual report published by the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (Irdai), life insurance companies have done a better job of settling death claims in financial year (FY) 2014 than in FY13. In terms of the number of policies settled, 12 life insurance […]