Kotak e-Term Plan
Kotak e-Term Plan provides a high level of protection to your loved ones in your absence.
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Kotak Guaranteed Savings Plan is a savings and protection plan that helps you achieve long-term financial goals and provides an insurance cover against any eventuality.
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Kotak e-Invest plan is a complete Unit-Linked Insurance Plan that can be customized as per your goals and needs.
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Kotak Health Shield Plan helps secure your finances in sudden medical expenses such as Cardiac, Liver, Neuro, and Cancer (all early and significant illness stages/conditions of cancer), along with offering protection for personal accidents - in case of accidental death or disability.
Kotak Lifetime Income Plan
Kotak Lifetime Income Plan gives you the security of your income continuing throughout your life and in your absence throughout your spouse's lifetime!
The importance of a term plan is huge when it comes to protecting the future of your loved ones. The affordable premiums and high returns make a term insurance policy one
of the most popular life insurance plans available today. In case of an untimely demise of the policyholder, the nominees can initiate an insurance claim to avail of the benefits. However, insurers have certain insurance terms and conditions when it comes to meeting an insurance claim.
These conditions are exclusions or scenarios that can result in a rejection of the claim. Even though the terms and conditions may vary from insurer to insurer, you need to be aware of various common exclusions, as explained ahead.
An accidental death is included in term plan, but that does not mean the claim made under such a scenario will always be accepted. In case of accidental deaths, the insurance companies always investigate the circumstances of the incident. The procedure of such an investigation might vary from insurer to insurer, but the findings have to be satisfactory for the claim to be accepted.
Death caused by lifestyle choices can be excluded from the policy. For example, the insurance companies always confirm if the insured is a smoker. The habit of smoking is a lifestyle choice that can shorten the insured’s life. Hence, smokers are considered to be high-risk policyholders. Therefore, if an insured does not declare the smoking habit while buying the policy, the insurer might reject the claim in cases where the death is related to smoking.
The term insurance terms and conditions always exclude any death related to self-harm or suicide. However, some insurance providers offer to return the premium if the policyholder commits suicide within a year from buying the policy. Certain fees are deducted by the insurer in that case. Moreover, death by participating in dangerous activities is excluded from the policy.
activities A term insurance policy is designed to provide financial aid to the policy holder’s family in case of an unexpected death. Therefore, if an insured engages in any activity that comes with a higher risk of life, insurance companies are entitled to reject the insurance claim. Death from participating in riots or any other criminal activity meets that condition; hence, they are excluded from the policy
In the case of pre-existing medical conditions, the insurance companies have a ‘waiting period’ clause included in the policy. Hence, if the insurer has a pre-existing illness, he or she has to wait for a certain period fixed by the insurer before the health condition can be included in the cover. In case of critical illnesses, the waiting period can be anything from a few months to a few years.
The term insurance exclusions of almost every insurance company mention any death due to intoxication. If the policyholder consumes drugs or an excessive amount of alcohol, and if this habit results in death, the insurance company is not liable to pay the cover.
Now that you are aware of the term life insurance exclusions, be sure to maintain a lifestyle that does not expose you to the loss of life, which might result in the insurer denying your nominees’ insurance claim.
Ref. No. KLI/22-23/E-BB/492
