[Resolved] ICICI Lombard Health Insurance — Mis-selling and fraud | |
I was contacted via phone by a sales person to buy ICICI Lombard health insurance. He called me since Iam holding ICICI Credit card. I have told 2-3 times that Iam not interested as the very name is ICICI. But he persistently called me and told so many benefits like Rs. 1000/- for every day hospitalized apart from all hospitalization benefits. Then I asked him to give me the link to go through the list. He told that the website is not having all details. Once I get the documents and if something is not there, I can immediately cancel the policy by calling him back and he will reimburse the full policy premium. Then there was a call from ICICI Lombard person directly to confirm the name/address/terms and conditions etc., The sales person asked me to say Yes for all of them (one that even says that on cancellation we have to pay some penalty). Somehow I agreed and recieved the policy documents. Then I did not find all these benefits in that and then called back this sales guy (Name: Shekar from chennai) and asked him to cancel. He agreed, but after repeated requests he did not try to cancel. He stopped picking my calls to his mobile number later. Then I called the landline number (from which he called me[protected]. Some other person picked it called Mohammed Rehan Hussain. He then asked all details and offered to help me after talking to his manager. Then he told me that his manager mentioned that one policy cannot be cancelled. If I take a add-on policy on my mother/father's name, then they can cancel both together and refund the premium amount. Out of no way I agreed again and went through same procedure. After receiving the documents for my mother's policy I called this guy to cancel both. Again he did same stuff. After 2-3 calls, he himself started speaking as a different guy and mentioned Rehan is in hospital after accident. After repeated calls, one new guy picked it and he heard all the above and told me that they cannot cancel the policy without the penalty of some 25-50% of premium amount. He told me that the previous 2 guys told lies to me on the same and he is a new person joined and don't know Shekar or Rehan. All this appears like a detailed cheating plan employed by these guys. Iam paying around 24K for both the policies. Now I have raised a online compliant directly with ICICI lombard, not sure what result I will get. Can somebody suggest some ways to handle this? Regards, Viswa. Was this information helpful? | |
Aug 13, 2020 Complaint marked as Resolved | |
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Dear Sir,
Many companies are selling Medical/Health Insurance policy to their credit card holders via telephonic talk.
Like ICICI's sister concern company ICICI Lombard, they call to the customers, and try any how to sale the insurance police.
As soon as the customers say yes, they start the policy without any document signed by the customer, without any medical checkup.
Moreover, without any information bank blocks the amount (however the insurance amount to be paid on monthly basis) and paid to the insurance company, and debit certain amount to the credit card account.
Such thing happened with my friend.
The banker is ICICI bank and health insurance company is ICICI Lombard which is sister company of ICICI group.
When we went to the office and raised the question regarding the policy, they executive/manage told us that the complete telephonic talk was recorded and on that call record, the policy was started.
When we told them to cancel the policy, the person told us that the representative would call after 2 days.
After 2 days, the representative of the company called us and told that to cancel the policy would charge around Rs. 15000/- as a cancellation charges.
Surprisingly, the premium it’s self is not more than that cancelation charges.
By doing such thing without giving any information to the customer, is it legal?
Moreover, they are passing information to the other company by breaking rule of the RBI notification.
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/RBI/NotificationUser...⇄
My question is that;
1) Does such police is valid or not?
2) Is it under RBI norms to sell Insurance policy on telephonic talk.
Thanking you,
Sincerely yours,
Paras Jariwala
( [protected] )
Surat, Gujarat State, INDIA
Many companies are selling Medical/Health Insurance policy to their credit card holders via telephonic talk.
Like ICICI's sister concern company ICICI Lombard, they call to the customers, and try any how to sale the insurance police.
As soon as the customers say yes, they start the policy without any document signed by the customer, without any medical checkup.
Moreover, without any information bank blocks the amount (however the insurance amount to be paid on monthly basis) and paid to the insurance company, and debit certain amount to the credit card account.
Such thing happened with my friend.
The banker is ICICI bank and health insurance company is ICICI Lombard which is sister company of ICICI group.
When we went to the office and raised the question regarding the policy, they executive/manage told us that the complete telephonic talk was recorded and on that call record, the policy was started.
When we told them to cancel the policy, the person told us that the representative would call after 2 days.
After 2 days, the representative of the company called us and told that to cancel the policy would charge around Rs. 15000/- as a cancellation charges.
Surprisingly, the premium it’s self is not more than that cancelation charges.
By doing such thing without giving any information to the customer, is it legal?
Moreover, they are passing information to the other company by breaking rule of the RBI notification.
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/RBI/NotificationUser...⇄
My question is that;
1) Does such police is valid or not?
2) Is it under RBI norms to sell Insurance policy on telephonic talk.
Thanking you,
Sincerely yours,
Paras Jariwala
( [protected] )
Surat, Gujarat State, INDIA
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Kindly write to us at [protected]@icicibank.com with your policy number, along with your full name and contact details.
We will be glad to assist you.
Regards,
K Raghavender
Office of the Nodal Officer
ICICI Bank