https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=105488 General insurance companies acting as State instrumentalities must deal fairly and reasonably, and a refusal to renew a mediclaim policy on the irrelevant ground that the insured had pursued legal remedies for an unpaid claim was arbitrary. The wrongful refusal could not be cured by directing the insured to purchase a fresh policy, because renewal restores the original cover and avoids prejudice from pre-existing disease exclusions under a new policy. The proper relief was renewal of the mediclaim policy from the date it fell due, subject to payment of premium, and the direction to take a fresh policy was set aside. en-us Thu, 02 Aug 2001 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:37:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=105488 General insurance companies acting as State instrumentalities must deal fairly and reasonably, and a refusal to renew a mediclaim policy on the irrelevant ground that the insured had pursued legal remedies for an unpaid claim was arbitrary. The wrongful refusal could not be cured by directing the insured to purchase a fresh policy, because renewal restores the original cover and avoids prejudice from pre-existing disease exclusions under a new policy. The proper relief was renewal of the mediclaim policy from the date it fell due, subject to payment of premium, and the direction to take a fresh policy was set aside. Case-Laws Companies Law Thu, 02 Aug 2001 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=105488