{"id":177415,"date":"2017-06-02T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=177415"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:13:29","slug":"the-types-of-insurance-claims-disputes-that-are-most-likely-to-be-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/177415\/the-types-of-insurance-claims-disputes-that-are-most-likely-to-be-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"The types of insurance claims disputes that are most likely to be resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African ombudsman for short-term insurance has released its annual report for 2016<\/a><\/strong>, showing the type of short-term insurance claim you are likely to have the most joy with when it comes to resolution.<\/p>\n

The ombud said it received 14,916 complaints in 2016 of which 10,175 were registered as formal complaints \u2013 an increase of 780 more complaints received in 2016 compared to 2015.<\/p>\n

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The watchdog said that 8,631 cases were resolved, while through its rulings the ombud returned R100 million to consumers.<\/p>\n

Of this amount, motor vehicle insurance claims made up that vast majority of complaints, and were ultimately paid out R59.2 million to the insured.<\/p>\n

The second largest complaint category was with home owner insurance, where R16.03 million was paid out to complainants, followed by commercial insurance complaints (R10.2 million paid out).<\/p>\n

Household content insurance was the least complained about, paying only R6.4 million to complainants. The remaining amount was covered by other insurance types.<\/p>\n

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Read:<\/strong>\u00a0The most complained about long-term insurance companies in South Africa in 2017<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South African ombudsman for short-term insurance has released its annual report for 2016, showing the type of short-term insurance claim you are likely to have the most joy with when it comes to resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-177415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177431,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177415\/revisions\/177431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}