ICICI iSHEILD 360 (Insurance Policy against Home Loan)

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Manish asked 7 years ago
Hello Sree, Recently, I bought ICICI Home Loan of 58.5 lakhs and ICICI iShield 360 insurance of 1.5 lakhs (including GST). Please refer below details of my iShield 360 insurance coverage:
  1. ICICI Pru Group loan secure (Sum insured 45 lakhs for tenure of 10 yrs): It covers death benefit and terminal illness and its a reducing type means as with loan amount. As the loan amount reduces benefit amount also gets reduced and it starts from 45 lakhs.
  2. Income Protect (Sum insured 45 lakhs for tenure of 10 yrs) : It covers 33 Critical illness (full cover 45 lakhs) and 107 surgeries (upto 12 EMIs).
  3. Health Insurance policy (Sum insured 5 lakhs for tenure of 5 yrs) : It is more or less same as all other Mediclaim policies.
Could you please guide me about this iShield 360 insurance, Was that a good decision or not ? Shall I withdraw this insurance soon ? Best regards, Manish Harne
2 Answers
Sreekanth Staff answered 7 years ago
Dear Manish, A simple mortgage insurance or term insurance cover would have been apt.   Related article :
Manish replied 7 years ago

Dear Sree,
Thanks for your fast reply and a nice article.
I have gone through it & would say this article and insurance calculator is for single earning person in family. Nowadays, most of the families has both the husband and wife working. So, I would urge to consider this scenario as well. 🙂

Regarding my query, I would request you to review the product “iShield 360 insurance” from ICICI. What is more beneficial, mortgage insurance or term plan ?

If I look at complete package, Health Insurance for 5 years costs me 20k value for money product but other 2 terms, ICICI pru group loan secure and Income protect of 1.3 Lakhs does not worth. Isn’t it better to opt out for Term plan + CI insurance ?

Sreekanth Staff answered 7 years ago
Hi, Term insurance calculator : If spouse is also an earning member then the 'required monthly amount' can be reduced and accordingly one can arrive at the approx life insurance cover amount. Given a choice, I would assign a Term insurance plan for my home loan.  Kindly go through the policy wordings for Critical Illness & Health insurance cover.  
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