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poelano S

1 reviews | Active since Oct 2014

26 Mar 2020, 08:39

Lack of response and unfair rejection basis for claim from indwe risk services

We insured our house with Indwe Risk Services underwritten by Santam and the rains in December/January damaged our veranda roofing. The claim was rejected after taking close to 4 weeks of consideration as we kept on following up to determine the status they mentioned that it with management for decision making. Their inefficiencies and insufficient coverage or poor insurance risk cannot be our problem. The question is why did it take this long. Their rejection notes were baseless as it referenced things that were not factual. We appealed and there is no response. Insurance industries have a way of flattening their own curve of paying claims by finding incorrect basis to reject claims during high volumes of claims. We cannot be paying premiums they enjoy to make profits and fail to honour claims if they fail to forecast insurance risk and reinsurance. Our reference number is ***1*001*010 and Santam their underwriting company needs to take note of this.

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Santam
Santam's reply26 Mar 2020, 10:23
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Good day

Thank you for your post.

Please be advised that we are in the process of investigating your complaint and we will be in contact with you shortly.

Thank you and kind regards

Kurt Koopman

Client Care Manager
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poelano S's update27 Mar 2020, 14:45
Reviewer Update
Thank you we will await your response. Hopefully it will not take as long as the first time.
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poelano S's update01 Apr 2020, 02:40
Reviewer Update
Dear Santam, the delays in actual responses and contacting us is not desirable. We are hoping the internal investigation currently underway will be much better and efficient than the response received via the complaints response received via email which copied and pasted the initial responses which lead to the complaint. Sadly still awaiting your contact and this is definitely not the platform for the communication to receive attention for such a big and ‘reputable’ company.