LIC’s Tech Term is now available for purchase from its online portal. However, LIC’s Tech Term Premium is still a few thousands more than term policies from private insurers. Waiting for a term plan to launch is the dumbest thing a person can do and now the wait is not worth it IMO.  Here are…

Here is how you can calculate returns from an insurance policy. The next time an insurance agent shows you a policy benefit illustration or the next time your friend or relative asks you, “Is this a good policy to invest in?”, use this method to show the annualized return they can expect (before bonuses which…

Claim settlement ratios (CSR) published by IRDA do not represent the probability of claim acceptance. Most private insurers have a claim settlement ratio comparable to that of LIC. Therefore the CSR will not help you choose a term life insurance policy. At best, CSRs would help you reject a few insurers. Here are some insights…

Will a life insurance claim be denied if the insured died in an accident where he was the driver without a valid driver’s license or valid vehicle insurance? Thanks to a question by Ganapathy Krishnan at Facebook group, Asan Ideas for Wealth, I was able to obtain an authoritative answer to this question from the insurance…

Everyone wishes they were a crorepati and this seems apparent from the sum insured chosen for a  term life insurance policy! Why is everyone buying a “one crore” policy? Because it is a large sum? One followed by seven zeros (ten million) is just a number. It may or may not be the right number…

Claim settlement ratio does not matter anymore from 2015 if your life insurance policy is at least 3-years old because IRDA has amended the section 45 of insurance act  such that any life insurance policy which is at least 3-years old cannot be denied claim  “on the ground of misrepresentation or suppression of a material…

Here is how one can choose a term life insurance provider in 30 minutes. Each passing day, more and more individuals are realizing the need for buying a term life insurance plan. However, too much time elapses between when they decide to buy and actually buy. Many cannot choose. They require some kind of ratification…

While trying to buy a term life insurance plan, it is natural to want a listing of premiums offered by all insurers. So we type, “compare term insurance plans” in Google and click on one of the first few links, without scrolling down the page. The trouble is, most (if not all) of the ‘popular’…

Do not assume that your insurer will hand out your life insurance amount (term, endowment, ulip etc.) on a platter to your nominee! Deepak Shenoy of capital mind posted about how ICICI Pru Life bitterly fought a claim settlement and delayed it by about 7 years. http://capitalmind.in/2015/07/has-icici-prudential-life-taken-to-fake-doctors-prescriptions-to-avoid-paying-out-claims/ This led to the swift clamour that one should not…