Insurance Claim Cannot Be Denied Merely Because a Column on Insurance Form Was Left Blank: NCDRC
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has ruled that leaving a column blank in a life insurance proposal form does not amount to giving a false answer, and therefore, an insurance claim cannot be denied on such grounds. The judgment was delivered by a bench comprising Dr. Inderjit Singh and Dr. Sudhir Kumar Jain in the case of Chhoti Devi v. Bharti AXA Life Insurance Co Ltd and Ors.…
