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Discovery Insure South Africa | Car, Home, Life and Health Insurance

Discovery Insure South Africa | Car, Home, Life and Health Insurance

Discovery Insure South Africa | Car, Home, Life and Health Insurance
Discovery Insure South Africa | Car, Home, Life and Health Insurance

You are on Uni24.co.za, in this article, we bring to you everything to know about Discovery Insure. An insurance company is any firm that provides a means by which risk is managed. Put it this way, Discovery Insure sells packages that offer protection against unexpected life circumstances in relation to damages, loss, theft or any bad situation.

With that said, Discovery Insure provides an array of insurance protection categorized into four groups. These are Discovery Insure Motor Insurance, Discovery Insure Health Insurance, Discovery Insure Travel Insurance, and Discovery Insure Home Insurance. These are some but a few of the insurance services this company offers. Other areas of protection include Fire Insurance, Life Insurance, Liability Insurane, Business Insurance and many more.

About Discovery Insure

We are a market-leading South African company with a dominant presence in the life insurance, medical scheme administration, short-term insurance, long-term savings, and banking industries. The South African operations are made up of the following businesses:

Discovery Health is South Africa’s largest medical scheme administrator and managed care provider, managing over 39% of the total membership of South African medical schemes. Non-medical scheme-related products such as gap cover, Flexicare and Healthy Company are also offered.

Discovery Life offers comprehensive life, capital disability, income protection, severe illness, and funeral cover, to individual and business clients with a retail-affluent market share of 30%.

Discovery Insure offers innovative and comprehensive car, home, and business insurance and has been entrusted with over 290 000 cars on South African roads.

Discovery Invest offers a comprehensive and flexible range of local and offshore investment plans to both retail and corporate clients and has over R120 billion in assets under administration.

Discovery Bank is a full-service digital retail bank offering a range of products. It has attracted over 1 million accounts within three years of the launch date.

Services of Discovery Insure

  • Life Insurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Motor Insurance
  • Home Insurance
  • Travel Insurance
  • Investment Services

Contacts of Discovery Insure

Discovery Business Insurance

For help with

All your questions about your Discovery Business Insurance plan

Contact us on

» 011 529 6620
Email: insureinfo@discovery.co.za

Hours

Monday – Friday 08:00 – 17:00

Frequently Asked Questions on Insurance in South Africa

How Much Is Car Insurance per Month in South Africa?

Car insurance in South Africa comes at an average cost of ZAR 1,322.00 per month. It should be noted that this varies greatly from one company to another the difference is the extent of insurance coverage you get and other premium services that come with the package. On a broader scale, the average monthly payment for car insurance is about 58 USD. Factors that influence your insurance premium include your driving history, your current location, and the coverage.

Does Life Insurance Pay for Suicidal Death?

The answer to this question varies from one insurance company to the other. However, most insurance companies include a suicide clause in their life insurance policies. This simply means that the first two years of a life insurance policy do not cover suicide-related circumstances. This is done to protect the firm from situations where a policyholder purposefully commits suicide with the hope of winning his family or beneficiaries’ payouts. But in the case of a life insurance policyholder whose been with the firm for more than 2 years, a death benefit is paid out to the beneficiaries.

What Is Short-Term Insurance?

Short-term insurance is any insurance policy that lasts for an hour, day, week or month. These policies are designed for very short-term needs. It should however be noted that some insurance companies offer longer durations under this package. Generally, they provide protection against theft, damage to goods or property or any other form of liability.

What Is Excess in Insurance?

Excess in insurance is generally the amount of money you have to pay to cover your insurance claim. This allows the insurance to pass on an agreed amount of the risk to the policyholder and is included in the policy. So in the event of an insurance claim, the beneficiary pays a portion of the claim cost and the insurance company pays the rest.

How Much Is House Insurance in South Africa?

How much is house insurance cost in South Africa? In South Africa, prices for home insurance vary from Rs 1,800 per square foot for basic projects and Rs 3,000 per sq ft for lavish projects. The coverage for house insurance extends to theft, fire, malicious or flooding, lightning, and storms. The two common coverage include Home Structure Insurance and Home Content Insurance.

Home structure insurance protects against damages to the structure of the building on the exterior or interior often resulting from storms, earthquakes, flooding, or lightning.

The home content insurance covers property theft within the house or damages to any property within the house.

 

 

 

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