PREM NARAIN
Gurpreet Kaur – Appellant
Versus
Life Insurance Corporation Through Its Manager(Legal) – Respondent
ORDER
Prem Narain,Presiding Member—In this revision petition, the order dated 14th March 2016 passed by the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Punjab, (in short ‘the State Commission’) in FA No. 1430 of 2014 has been challenged by the petitioner complainant Gurpreet Kaur.
2. Brief facts of the case are that the husband of the petitioner Rupinder Singh (since deceased) had taken a policy bearing No. 472819994 from the respondent Insurance Company on 26th July 2010 for a sum of Rs.10 lakhs for a period of 16 years. During the currency of the policy, the insured died of cardiac arrest on 29th June 2012. The claim was submitted by the complainant to the Insurance Company which was repudiated by the respondent company vide their letter dated 19th October 2013. The claim was repudiated on the ground that the Deceased Life Assured (DLA) had suppressed the material information in respect of his ill-health and the earlier policy obtained by him in the proposal form. It was mentioned that the DLA had earlier obtained another life insurance policy No. 302-160-300 from branch office Ludhiana on 28th March 2010 for another sum assured of Rs.10 lakhs. The DLA was also suffering from epi
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