Insurance company changed policy w/o telling me. Can i be compensated?

Ideally when you renew an insurance policy, and do not pass on any instructions to the insurance company to change / modify the terms of your insurance, all the terms and conditions of your prior insurance policy are supposed to be carried on to your renewed insurance policy.

Said this, the merit of your appeal lies in the fact if you instructed your Insurance provider, through a renewal form which was duly filled and signed by you, to renew your Insurance policy or was it done through a regular procedure wherein you paid them a renewal premium cheque without filling in any renewal form.

In case you filled the renewal form, you might want to review the terms and conditions and the applicable benefits to be renewed. Was the 0% Depreciation benefit checked by you in the renewal form?

In the regular case, i.e. wherein you did not fill the renewal form and just gave the insurance provider a renewal cheque, you may claim to be compensated for the benefits of your previous insurance policy that should have by default be passed on to you.

You must make a written representation to the zonal Insurance Company office stating all the facts as mentioned in your query and as per suggestion provided above. In case you do not get the desired relief, you may send them a Legal Notice through a Lawyer to get you the required compensation failing which, you may approach the Consumer Court for the deficiency of services rendered to you by your Insurance Provider.

Kindly contact us if you would like to initiate the process of sending across a Legal Notice in case the written representation to the Insurance company does not get you the desired relief.