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 30th August 2016, 16:00 | #1 |
| amit.toshniwal Newbie Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Navi Mumbai Posts: 19 Thanked: 42 Times | 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience While I have always laughed at the advertisements where a common man runs around for Insurance claims settlements thanks to the 50 black days with Chola Motor Insurance I can say I have experienced the same. The entire experience of 50 black days with Chola Motor Insurance from claim intimation till now has been so painful and full of harassment for me that I am thankful to God that I do not have a life insurance with Chola. God forbid in case of my demise and had I had a life Insurance with Chola my family would have never ever received the claim settlement. Below is the chronological series of events that have happened for Toyota Protect Insurance Policy with Chola Motor Insurance for my Toyota Etios
Standing on the 50th day of claim intimation absolutely harassed with no intimation, communication and missing all levels of customer service and commitments-Priceless My confidence in the build and quality of Toyota cars has been reinforced by the fact that I am saved and am alive. However I have my personal opinion based on my experience about the collaborative relationship between Toyota Protect and Chola Motor Insurance. Actions of one of them is impacting the brand name of the other. I have even dropped a mail to the Chief Grievance Redressal Officer Mr. A Prabhakar who also happens to be their India VP operations but no response yet. Not even an acknowledgement. The best part if that the only two people who are following up and communicating are me and the Head at Toyota Protect. Requesting Team- BHPians for your inputs and experiences on how this situation can be handled. I will also be posting the same synopsis on Facebook with the link of Team BHP post as soon as it is approved. Last edited by amit.toshniwal : 30th August 2016 at 16:06.Reason: Removed formatting tags & corrected spacing for better readability |
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| 30th August 2016, 16:11 | #2 |
| Zappo Team-BHP Support
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hyderabad Posts: 5,939 Thanked: 2,733 Times | re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Considering that the car dealers are so keen to push their own insurance policies in the name of quick settlements etc. I think this case is a live testament of how factual (or rather non-factual) those pie-in-the-sky stories are! One thing I am still not clear about is that who is playing games here? The Chola Insurance folks or is that Toyota? I thought it was the insurance company but at the end of the story I ended up getting somewhat confused! |
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| 30th August 2016, 16:49 | #3 |
| ghodlur Senior - BHPian
Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Thane Posts: 6,124 Thanked: 4,465 Times View My Garage | re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience That's a bad accident, thank God you came out with minor injuries (as I can see blood on the driver seat). Hope you have recovered now. Its shameful on the part of Toyota or Chola to play the games with you. The issues with a specific brand tie up with an insurance co are many. Finally it is always the brand one has to deal with and not the Insurance co which is very much evident from Amit's experience. I think it is clearly Toyota's fault here as they are the front for this mess. It is not very clear as to why Toyota was deliberately missing the payment deadline. Maybe Amit can throw more light on this. |
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| 31st August 2016, 11:26 | #4 |
| GTO Team-BHP Support
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bombay Posts: 71,795 Thanked: 311,776 Times View My Garage | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Quote: Originally Posted by amit.toshniwal My confidence in the build and quality of Toyota cars has been reinforced by the fact that I am saved and am alive. Thanks for the tip on Chola. We know who to avoid now. I'm glad that you made it out okay. That looks like a serious crash (I see blood on the driver's seat). Care to explain what exactly happened? Quote: Originally Posted by Zappo Considering that the car dealers are so keen to push their own insurance policies in the name of quick settlements etc. I think this case is a live testament of how factual (or rather non-factual) those pie-in-the-sky stories are! End of the day, dealers will always sell the policy that gives them the highest commission. Anyone who believes that his claim process will be simpler because of buying insurance from the dealer has simply been misled. |
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| 31st August 2016, 12:00 | #5 |
| amit.toshniwal Newbie Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Navi Mumbai Posts: 19 Thanked: 42 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience I was traveling with family to Jalgaon. The road from Dhule to Jalgaon is a single lane highway with no Dividers. Around 10 km from the city there is a blind turn. At the blind turn there was a bus coming from the other side that rammed into my car. From the investigation it was found that the bus had a mechanical axle failure and the bus went out of control and hit my car. Luckily I had quite some luggage so the car didnt roll over when the car spun twice and came to a halt. While I was driving I just remember that before the accident which could have been head on collision I had tried to steer the car to the left and had a hit on the driver side. After that I had blacked out for a couple of minutes. Luckily both the airbags were deployed. I was wearing seat belt in front seat and my family was sitting in rear seat. My wife and kid both were wearing seat belts they suffered no injuries. As there were glass pieces that broke from the window 13 of them got embedded in my hand till the bone, 2 pieces shot through and through. My Right hand had around 30 stitches which recently got removed. I agree to all people that Insurance Companies have these gimmicks while sales is being done. I had got 5 calls in one day from them. I am surprised that Toyota even has a collaboration with them when it is impacting the Toyota brand. I had taken the zero dep insurance with a brand promise of Toyota Protect but am frankly disappointed. Last edited by ampere : 2nd September 2016 at 11:56.Reason: Typo fixed |
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| 31st August 2016, 14:36 | #6 |
| tilt BHPian
Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Canada / B'lore Posts: 818 Thanked: 2,976 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Pardon me for my ignorance on this issue, but why should you, the insured, have to meet with the salvage buyer at all? That whole process would be between the insurance company and the salvage buyer. Your only interface should be the insurance company and that's it. The insurance company would pay you out, and then do the salvage portion etc. in its own time, not on your time. Cheers |
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| 31st August 2016, 14:42 | #7 |
| amit.toshniwal Newbie Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Navi Mumbai Posts: 19 Thanked: 42 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Thats exactly what I have been trying to argue but the Insurance company says that the procedure and that I will need to sign the documents to hand over the salvage to the dealer. I forgot to mention that I have always been communicated that the Salvage buyer is CarTrade. Not sure what is the level of authenticity in what I am being communicated. |
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| 1st September 2016, 13:39 | #8 |
| Zappo Team-BHP Support
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hyderabad Posts: 5,939 Thanked: 2,733 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Have you tried to rope in the ombudsman into this case? I suggest you do that. I am not sure how Insurance companies can transfer their work on you as an obligation! |
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| 1st September 2016, 17:08 | #9 |
| amit.toshniwal Newbie Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Navi Mumbai Posts: 19 Thanked: 42 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Today after the numerous amount of followups, escalations and all followups, I did receive a major part of the salvage buyer's amount which is 35% of the total IDV on paper. The Insurance company has agreed to settle the remaining part of the salvage buyers amount in next 2 days on email. Only after receiving the entire amount of salvage committed on mail will I will be signing the documentation with the Insurance company and Salvage buyer. They also have agreed on email to settle the balance amount-65% of the IDV in one week's time. Atleast some motion seen after so much of agony for me. I have been shouting so much that literally I have a sore throat. Let me monitor the process of settlement of the remaining amount through for a week. In case there is still an issue I agree with Zappo I will involve ombudsman from IRDA. Thanks for the tip. |
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| 1st September 2016, 18:03 | #10 |
| Engine_Roars BHPian
Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Pune Posts: 427 Thanked: 2,995 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Quote: Originally Posted by amit.toshniwal Today after the numerous amount of Atleast some motion seen after so much of agony for me. I have been shouting so much that literally I have a sore throat. Let me monitor the process of settlement of the remaining amount through for Thanks for the tip. Team-Bhp effect? Could be. Nothing hurts these companies more than negative publicity. No matter what, good that things are moving. Let's hope you are out of this mess real soon. |
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| 2nd September 2016, 02:54 | #11 |
| highway_star BHPian
Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Mumbai Posts: 120 Thanked: 127 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Thanks for sharing your experience. I have a Toyota Protect insurance policy from Chola (taken from dealer at the time of purchase) for my Etios which is nearly one year old and due for renewal. I compared the renewal quote from them with other companies and found that they are charging around Rs 7,000 more for same IDV and similar terms. I was thinking about whether it is worth paying more for a Toyota branded policy. Now I have my answer. |
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| 2nd September 2016, 03:39 | #12 |
| vigsom Distinguished - BHPian
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NSEW Posts: 3,893 Thanked: 27,850 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Quote: Originally Posted by amit.toshniwal a bus coming from the other side that rammed into my car. After such a bad bash and nursing your hand which has had multiple stitches , and a head full of pressure , you have taken the pains to type out your posts .Hats Off We had one villain in the Auto Insurance sector , now we have another one.For them only the inflow is important , not the outflow. Last edited by vigsom : 2nd September 2016 at 03:41.Reason: Addition |
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| 7th September 2016, 13:44 | #13 |
| amit.toshniwal Newbie Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Navi Mumbai Posts: 19 Thanked: 42 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Update on 7 Sep 2016 After the first part of payment was received on 1st Sep 2016 the Insurance Company and Toyota protect has committed that the balance payment will be done in 2 days but now again 6 days later and with 3 mails, 9 phone calls and multiple whatsapp messages later the balance payment from the salvage buyer is still pending. The most surprising part of the entire episode is that I get a mail commitment with the date and time by which the payment will be done and every time the commitment is not met. Zappo can you please guide on the procedure for involving IRDA and ombudsmen into this. |
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| 26th September 2016, 16:22 | #14 |
| amit.toshniwal Newbie Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Navi Mumbai Posts: 19 Thanked: 42 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Update on 8 Sep 2016 (62 days) After a lot of follow up again now the balance payment from the salvage buyer was deposited into my account. Update as on 10 Sep 2016 (64 days) NOS letter scan shared and registered post send to Insurance company Update on 23 Sep 2016 (77 days) Finally after I wrote them that I will reach out to IRDA and also quoted the Consumer protection act asking for them to publish their SLAs or I will have to go legal did the final settlement amount get deposited into my account. Phew finally one chapter closed and a lot of learning on how to handle Insurance company claims. I will be publishing the learnings in the next post on 1. How to submit and follow up claims |
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| 26th September 2016, 22:56 | #15 |
| NetfreakBombay Senior - BHPian
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Bombay Posts: 1,480 Thanked: 1,094 Times | Re: 50 shades of black with Chola Motor Insurance - Terrible claim experience Quote: Originally Posted by highway_star they are charging around Rs 7,000 more for same IDV and similar terms. I was thinking about whether it is worth paying more for a Toyota branded policy. Now I have my answer. They do charge more. There are couple of coverage that are not available with open-market policies : 1. Zero salvage cost I.e. in case of total loss, buyer gets original Ex Showroom + RTO + Octroi from Insurance (instead of a reduced IDV). |
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