When percentage is low it indicates that the company has
higher claim rejection rate.
Recently I was reading an article on should one buy online term plans with
high claim rejection rates?
A company having
a high claim rejection ratio need not necessarily be a bad company.
They point to
the high claim rejection ratio of some private insurers, especially the new players who have set up shop in the past 2 - 3 years.
Not exact matches
The death
claim values are small in nature for savings plans and there are hardly any frauds because if someone indeed wanted to fraud the insurance company (which is a big reason for
claims rejection), they would buy term insurance because it gives
high life insurance cover with very low premium.
Insurers agree the
claims rejection rate for policies without medical tests is
high.
In case a
claim arises, there is a very
high probability of
rejection as the appointed nominees may not be available anymore, and the company can not figure out whom to disburse funds.
If you avoid these tests, then
rejection of
claim by the insurer stating some pre-existing disease as a reason is
high.
Day - care procedures covered — needless to say, the
higher the numbers of processes covered the more secure you are against
rejection of
claim.
However, more the exhaustive the list,
higher is the chance of
claim rejection because everything is mentioned in minutest detail.
The
higher settlement ratio is good for the company as
claim rejection chances are very less from such insurance companies.