ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday rejected three representations filed by the State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan as maladministration was established on its part in 3 cases.
The State Life had repudiated the complainants’ insurance claims because the insurance policyholders had pre-insurance illnesses which they had willfully hidden at the time of getting the policy, it said in a statement released by the President’s Office.
President Alvi directed SLIC to pay insurance claims worth more than Rs 3.2 million to 3 complainants and report compliance to Wafaqi Mohtasib within thirty days.
He gave these directions while rejecting 3 separate representations filed by SLIC against the judgments of the Wafaqi Mohtasib.
As per details, Samina Shahzadi, Seeta, and Muhammad Mehfooz stated that their family members had obtained policies from SLIC worth 2.9 million rupees, Rs 192,000, and Rs 198,290, respectively.
State Life refuses claims
SLIC, after the deaths of policyholders, refused to pay the insurance claims to complainants.
The aggrieved complainants approached the Wafaqi Mohtasib, which passed judgments in their favour.
The SLICP then filed representations with President Alvi against the verdicts of the Mohtasib, which he also rejected.
In the case of Samina, the president observed that her deceased husband had died due to COVID-19, as declared by ABWA Hospital and Research Centre in Faisalabad, and not due to the pre-insurance illness of brain tumor as claimed by the SLIC.
In Muhammad Mehfooz’s case, President Alvi pointed out that the insurance policy was issued to his sister Chand Bibi on 26 December 2018, and she died on 19 December 2021 after the expiry of a period of over three years and 7 months.
Likewise, he noted that the insurance policy was issued to Seeta’s husband Jodho Mal on 31 December 2018, who later died on 17 March 2021 after the expiry of a period of over two years and two months.
