to be seen. The NHRC recommends that the government develop indicators
to facilitate investigation and tracking (e.g., indicators that show whether there
is a significant difference between the insurance application rate/number
between nondisabled people and persons with disabilities) to enable
comparisons between the two groups.
(2) Table 25.5 of the CRPD Second Report showed that “illness” was listed as the
reason why 9,762 insurance applications by persons with disabilities were
rejected in 2018 and 10,985 were rejected in 2019, and “nonphysical
conditions” was the reason for 8,418 rejected insurance applications in 2018
and 9,311 in 2019. Further analysis of the statistical data compiled by the TII
revealed that under “nonphysical conditions,” the most common reason was
“underwriting procedure incomplete” (either the insurance company or
customer suspending the underwriting procedure), which accounted for over
6,000 of the rejected insurance applications in both 2018 and 2019. 105
Reasons for persons with disabilities suspending the underwriting procedure
included the contract proposer investing time and energy in planning for
insurance but later dropping out, or failing to submit all required data thus
causing the underwriting procedure to terminate. These reasons accounted for
31.71% of the rejected insurance applications. The FSC should have a full
grasp of the reasons why proposers with disabilities suspend the underwriting
procedure.
(3) The FSC oversaw The Non-Life Insurance Association of the Republic of
China (hereinafter referred to as the NLIA) and The Life Insurance
Association of the Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the
LIAROC) when they co-formulated the Guidelines for Insuring Persons
with Disabilities. Article 5 of the guidelines stipulates that “all insurance
companies shall create empirical statistical data on insured persons with
disabilities to serve as a basis for future revisions in insurance standards.” In
2000, the Department of Insurance, Ministry of Finance promulgated its
Insurance Industry Guidelines for Insuring Persons with Disabilities, which
required life insurance companies to compile empirical statistical data on
105
According to the disabled persons insurance database created by the TII, in both 2018 and 2019,
“underwriting procedure incomplete” among nonphysical conditions was listed as the reason why over
6,000 insurance applications were rejected.
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