All the General and Standalone Health insurers are mandated to offer Standard personal accident insurance product “Saral Suraksha Bima” from 1st April,2021.

Minimum entry age is 18 years and maximum age at entry is at least 70 years. Dependent Child / children will be covered from age 3 months to 25 years.

Yes. “Saral Suraksha Bima” can be availed by a family on individual basis which means that the chosen sum insured shall apply to each family member separately. Family consists of the proposer and any one or more of the family members as mentioned below:
(i) Legally wedded spouse.
(ii) Parents and Parents-in-law.
(iii) Dependent Children (i.e. natural or legally adopted) between the ages 3 months to 25            years. If the child above 18 years of age is financially independent, he or she shall be                  ineligible for coverage in the subsequent renewals.

The policy period of “Saral Suraksha Bima” is one year.

The policy has three base covers which are mandatory covers and three optional covers which can be chosen by the policyholder based on the requirement. These covers are listed below:
Base covers:
a) Death
b) Permanent Total Disablement
c) Permanent Partial Disablement

Optional covers:
a) Temporary total disablement
b) Hospitalisation expenses due to accident
c) Education grant

Benefit equal to 100% of Sum Insured is payable on death of the insured person, due to an Injury sustained in an Accident during the Policy Period, provided that the Insured Person’s death occurs within 12 months from the date of the Accident.

Benefit equal to 100% of Sum Insured is payable, if the insured person suffers permanent total disablement of the nature specified below, provided that the permanent total disablement occurs within 12 months from the date of the Accident and is a result of the accident.

a) Total and irrecoverable loss of sight of both eyes or
b) Physical separation or loss of use of both hands or feet or
c) Physical separation or loss of use of one hand and one foot or
d) loss of sight of one eye and Physical separation or loss of use of hand or foot
e) If such Injury shall as a direct consequence thereof, permanently, and totally, disables the Insured Person from engaging in any employment or occupation of any description whatsoever.

Within 12 months from the date of accident, if the insured person suffers partial disablement of the nature specified in the policy terms and conditions which is attributable to the accident, the percentage of the sum insured as applicable to such permanent partial disablement is payable.

The following is the benefit table applicable to permanent partial disablement cover.

The cover compensates the insured person at the rate of 0.2% of the base sum insured per week if the insured person is completely incapacitated from engaging in any employment or occupation, due to accident. The minimum period of the disablement shall be four weeks, for the benefit to be payable under this cover. After completion of minimum four weeks the policyholder is entitled to the benefit from the date of temporary disablement.

The hospitalization expenses arising due to accident shall be payable under this cover, up to the limit of 10% of base sum insured. The expenses related to hospitalization including cost of prosthetic and other devices or equipment if implanted  internally during a surgical procedure, are covered under this optional cover. Further, expenses related to dental treatment, plastic surgery and all the day-care treatments necessitated due to injury are covered under this policy.

If the insured person meets death or permanent total disability due to accident, a one-time Educational Grant of 10% of the base sum insured, per child, shall be payable, to all dependent children of the insured if:
a. Dependent child/ children is/are pursuing an educational course as a full time student in an educational institution.
b. Age of the child or children is/are not be more than 25 completed years.

This policy will automatically terminate upon the Insured Person's death or payment of 100% Sum Insured. However, the cover will continue for the remaining Insured Persons till the end of Policy Period.

The minimum sum insured available is Rs. 2.5 lakhs and maximum limit is Rs. 1 Crore. The policyholder may choose any Sum Insured within these limits in the multiples of fifty thousand.

Yes. Cumulative bonus is applicable only in respect of base cover. Sum insured (excluding CB) will be increased by 5% of sum insured in respect of each claim free policy year subject to maximum of 50% of the sum insured, provided the policy is renewed without a break. If a claim is made in any particular year, the cumulative bonus accrued will be reduced at the same rate at which it has accrued.

Cumulative Bonus means any increase or addition in the Sum Insured granted by the insurer without associated increase in premium. The following is the illustration of working of Cumulative Bonus:

Illustration:

If Mr. A has bought an insurance plan with sum insured Rs. One Lakh and he did not register any claim in the first policy year; at the time of renewal he will get a cumulative bonus of 5%. Thus, his total sum insured for next year will be Rs. 1,05,000/- (Rs. One Lakh Base Sum Insured + Rs Five Thousand Cumulative Bonus). Similarly, in the second year if he does not register a claim, he gets a cumulative bonus of 5% of base sum insured so that the Sum Insured will get increased to Rs1,10,000/- (Rs. One Lakh Base Sum Insured + Rs Ten Thousand Cumulative Bonus). The bonus can go up to 50% of sum insured; that is Mr. A can accrue a cumulative bonus of Rs. 50,000 (total coverage of 1,50,000/-) if he does not make any claim for ten years. Hence he available sum insured at the end of ten years is Rs.1,50,000/-(Base sum insured of Rs.1,00,000/- and cumulative bonus of Rs. 50,000/-). Assuming that there is a claim (other than Death and Permanent Total disablement where 100% Sum insured is payable) in the eleventh year, the cumulative bonus will get reduced at the rate at which it has accrued. In this case, as the rate of accrual is 5% of base sum insured i.e, Rs.5000/- per year, the cumulative bonus gets reduced by Rs.5000/-.

A policyholder can pay premium on Yearly, Half-yearly, Quarterly and Monthly basis.

For Yearly payment of mode, a fixed period of 30 days is allowed as Grace Period and for all other modes of payment a fixed period of 15 days is allowed as Grace Period.

Complete details are available in IRDAI website www.irdai.gov.in (Home>>Legal>>Guidelines>>Health).Link to the same is provided below:

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You may approach any of the insurers who are offering the product. All general and health insurers shall mandatorily sell the product online.