Insurance News: CERS helps Ahmedabad resident win insurance claim for hernia surgery

Consumer Education & Research Society’s (CERS) continuous efforts to protect interest of the consumers have once again produced desired result, since the Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Ahmedabad (City) in a recent order has accepted its plea objecting to unfair trade practice adopted by one of India’s leading firm, Oriental Insurance and ordered the insurer to settle the claim made by an Ahmedabad resident, which was dismissed earlier on the pretext of some conditions of the contract. Read more

Consumer Disputes Redressal forum directs Oriental Insurance to pay for deficiency in insurance claim payment

Oriental Insurance Co Ltd has been directed by a consumer forum here to pay Rs 60,000 over a claim to a policy holder for not fully reimbursing the medical expenses incurred on his treatment for dengue on the ground of pre-existing disease.

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Consumer forum asks New India Assurance Company to pay for mediclaim policy

The Pune District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (consumer court) has ordered New India Assurance Company Limited to pay more than Rs 75,000 to Sapna Nagrani from Shastri Nagar for refusing a claim for hysterectomy operation, confusing it with appendectomy (the removal of swollen appendix), for which she was earlier operated upon.

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