👉Did you know that your insurer can restore your #insurance cover after you've made a claim?
How exactly?
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👉It’s a Sunday morning and you’re sipping coffee on the hospital bed. You are thinking about how a small heart complication forced you into a 3-week stay at the hospital.
More importantly, you’re thinking about how you racked up a bill totaling ₹4,88,000.
👉Thankfully, your insurance policy is going to take care of the burden. After all, you have a ₹5 Lakh cover. So you don’t have to pay anything right now. But you start thinking about other possibilities.
👉See, you bought a combined policy — For both your wife and yourself. And if she were to fall sick anytime soon, then the insurance won’t cover her bills. You’ve used up the benefits already.
🤔But what if the insurance restored itself to the initial state immediately after you make a claim?
What if your insurer offered you a ₹5 lakh cover once again in the event you or your wife have to be hospitalized anytime soon?
💡Well…Guess what? It’s possible with a restoration benefit.
While some policies offer unlimited restoration for any illness, others have some restrictions.
👉For instance, some policies will tell you that you can’t claim the restoration benefit if you have the same illness once again. In this case — a heart complication.
Ditto Advice: It’s always prudent to opt for restoration benefits if you have a combined policy.
It also makes sense even if it’s an individual policy. Just make sure you read the fine print on how the cover is restored each time and you’ll be set. #AskDitto
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How an insurance company built a profitable business insuring high-risk customers. (A thread...)
👉One of the biggest problems an insurance company can have is adverse selection: a situation where insurance companies want healthy customers that pay premiums regularly while making little to no claims, but the reality is far different.
This is because the people actually seeking insurance are the ones most likely to make claims. These people are known as high-risk customers and most insurance companies try to steer away from them.
💡Here's how your #insurer can make you pay your own medical bill-
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👉You’re about to buy health insurance. The agent pitches a policy with a cover totaling 5 Lakhs for a bargain price of just ₹7000 a year. But then he sweetens the pot even further.
He promises to cut down the premium by 25% (roughly ₹1800/year) if only you agree to a 20% "co-payment" clause.
You think that’s amazing and you sign off on the agreement. Wow, you just saved ₹1800.
6000 people on planet Earth would win the lottery if aliens abducted them.
That’s because they have been insured for it, and you can be too.(A thread...)
💸For just a one-time fee of $25, Saint Lawrence Agency in the US will give you $10M in coverage which covers outpatient psychiatric care & even “sarcasm coverage”, for any comments victims might face from family members after the traumatic experience of an alien abduction.
👉But here’s the catch - if you read the fine print of the policy, it says that in the event of an approved claim, the policy will be payable in installments of $1 per year over 10Mn years.
Your shabby old car can help reduce motor #insurance premiums on your new one by up to 50%!
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You heard that right.
💡This works because of a neat thing known as NCBs or No Claim Bonuses in motor insurance. Think of it as a benefit your insurer gives you for every year you don't make a claim, in the form of a nice reduction on your premiums.
This reward system can save you 20% on your premiums in 1 year to a maximum of 50% in 5 years. However, this is only applicable to the own damage(OD) part of your comprehensive policy.