Understanding The Add-ons Available For SOMPO Motor Car Insurance
When you are buying comprehensive cover for your car, it protects your car against the damage that occurred during own accident, in the case of fire and theft loss. However, the damage from natural disaster such as flood or tree branches fell down on your windscreen and crack it, it is not covered. You have to pay for it out of your own pocket. To protect your car against this unexpected event, you can buy car insurance based on your need.
If comprehensive cover is your main dish, then car insurance add-ons are your side dishes. You can choose any add-ons that cater to your need to lessen your financial burden when unexpected accidents happen. Here’s are the list of car insurance add-ons that you can add to your existing insurance.
Windscreen Coverage
When your windscreen is cracked or chipped suddenly, you still can claim your car insurance. However, your NCD will be affected and back to 0% upon next renewal. To avoid this, you can buy Windscreen Coverage to cover your windscreen for any damage without affecting your NCD. Your windscreen sum insured will cover the cost to repair or replace any of your windscreen, window or sun roof of your car.
Unlimited Towing Cost (Included)
Enjoy 24/7 Roadside Assistance with unlimited towing services with SOMPO Motor. Whether it's a flat tyre, a dead battery, or any other breakdown issue, our roadside assistance experts can assist in towing your vehicle to your preferred workshop.
Full Special Perils Coverage (Included)
SOMPO Motor comprehensive car insurance comes with full Special Perils where it covers the loss or damage to your car caused by natural disaster such as flood, typhoon, hurricane, storm, tempest, volcanic eruption, earthquake, landslide, landslip, subsidence or sinking of the soil.
Compensation for Assessed Repair Time (CART)
You will be compensated based on the number of days assessed by your insurance company as required to repair your car after accident. This is to ensure that you still can move around with public transport or taxi for your everyday life with the compensated money.
Legal Liability to Passenger
Legal Liability to Passenger will covers you against legal liability sought by your passengers against you in the event of accident due to your negligence. For example, if you ferrying a friend with your car and accident happens due to your negligence, your friend can sue you for the injury that he or she sustained. This add-on is a must if you intend to drive your car to Singapore as Singapore’s Law required this.
Legal Liability of Passenger for Negligence Act
This add-on will cover you against a third party claim against you for the negligence of your passengers. For example, if your passenger accidentally hit another car when they are opening the car door, this extra cover will pay for the damage of the third party car. However, there is an exclusion for this add-ons. If the third party property or vehicle is owned or belongs to you or your passenger, this add-ons does not cover it.
Waiver of Betterment
When you are making claim and using new original parts to repair your car, you are required to pay for a proportion of the cost of the new original parts. This is called betterment. The percentage of the betterment that you need to pay are vary according to your vehicle age. Which means the older your car age, the higher the betterment. However, this does not apply for vehicle that are less than 5 years. To avoid paying for betterment during claim, you can buy this add-on. This add-on only available for vehicle that are not more than 15 years.
Current Year NCD Relief
NCD stands for No Claim Discount and when you are making a claim to your insurance due to your fault, you will lose this discount and your insurance premium will be higher. NCD relief is an add-on to compensate you for the NCD amount that you may entitled during the claim to ease your financial burden. After all, your NCD will be reset to 0% on your next renewal.
Vehicle Accessories
This extra coverage will cover for the damage of non standard accessories that you installed to your car. If you claim for the accessories only, your NCD will not be affected. However, this extra coverage is terminated upon settlement of your claim.
Strike, Riot and Civil Commotion
This add-on will cover your car against the wilful act of striker or the act of any person that taking part together with others in disturbance of public peace. However, civil war or act of terrorism is excluded.
All the add-ons mentioned above are available in SOMPO Motor, you can choose and pick which one to add to your insurance during renewal based on your need to protect yourself against unexpected incident. After all, the purpose of these add-ons are to lessen your financial burden in the future. So head over to SOMPO Motor to get a quotation for your car coverage plans and add-ons.