Personal Accident
Miscellaneous Insurance Policy
Miscellaneous Insurance Policy
This policy offers compensation in case of death or bodily injury to the insured person, directly and solely as a result of an accident, by external, visible and violent means.
The policy operates worldwide and is a 24 hours cover.
Different coverages are available ranging from a restricted cover of Death only, to a comprehensive cover covering death, permanent disablements and temporary total disablements.
Family Package cover is available to Individuals under Personal Accident Policy whereby the proposer, spouse and dependent children can be covered under a single policy with a 10% discount in premium.
Group personal accident policies are also available for specified groups with a discount in premium depending upon the size of the group.
This policy is basically designed to offer some sort of compensation to the insured person who suffers bodily injury solely as a result of an accident which is external, violent and visible. Hence death or injury due to any illness or disease is not covered by the policy.
The following types of coverages are offered under a Personal Accident policy:-
Table D
Table C
Table B
Table A
The insured can claim only under any one of these sections as a result of any one accident.
The policy also covers expenses incurred for carriage of dead body from place of accident to the residence subject to a limit of 2% of the capital sum insured or INR 2,500 whichever is less. Under an Individual Personal Accident policy or Family Package Policy, an education fund is payable for a maximum of 2 dependent school going children, in case of death or permanent total disablement of the insured person.
Individual and group personal accident policies can be extended to cover medical expenses incurred in the treatment of an accident covered under the policy, subject to a limit of 10% of the sum insured or 40% of the death / disability compensation claim payable, on payment of additional premium.
The policy issued to Indian personnel working in foreign countries on civilian duty can be extended to cover War risk on payment of additional premium.
The policy can also be restricted to cover Personal Accident risk during duty hours only or during off-duty hours only with discount in premium. It is also possible to issue group P.A. policy excluding the death benefit subject to a group life policy covering death benefit being taken for the same group of persons for the same policy period.
The insurance provides compensation in the event of death or disability directly due to accident.
Any adult residing in India can take the policy covering himself / herself and dependent family members between the ages of 5 and 70yrs.
It is very difficult to put a value to a human life. Hence the principle of indemnity cannot be applied in this policy. However it becomes necessary to apply some yardstick for fixing the sum insured so that human lives are not overvalued for ulterior motives.
Hence the capital sum insured is restricted to 72months income from gainful employment. This means that income from property, shares etc. will not be taken into account. For non working spouse, the sum insured is restricted to 50% of the sum insured of earning spouse subject to a maximum of INR 1,00,000/- and for dependent children to 25% of the sum insured of earning parents subject to a maximum of INR 50,000/-. In case of Gramin Personal Accident, Student Safety, Raj Rajeshwari, Bhagyashree policies the sum insured is fixed.
In Individual Personal Accident policy, facility of cumulative bonus is given whereby the capital sum insured is increased by 5% every year on claim free renewals subject to a maximum of 50%. This cumulative bonus is available only under tables A, B & C.