Digit Insurance Offers Common Carrier Insurance Covering Flight Delay For Hassle-Free Claims

• Common Carrier Delay Cover is only applicable for domestic flights
• The premium of Rs. 49 per passenger is inclusive of all taxes
• Digit offers an automated claim registration through real time airline tracking 

Bengaluru, 11^th November 2020: Digit Insurance, on a mission to make insurance simple in India, offers  its common carrier insurance covering flight delay service for domestic passengers under ‘Common Carrier Delay Cover.’ To avail this service, passengers need to pay a nominal fee of INR 49 through Digit’s official website. Any passenger, except an infant, can avail of this insurance cover.

Digit Insurance’s ‘Common Carrier Delay Cover’ compensates passengers facing flight delays for more than 90/120 minutes during Summers / Winters respectively with fixed benefits.

In case of delayed flights, passengers with this cover will automatically get their claim registered from Digit. They would need to just upload the details of their boarding pass and share their bank details. The money will automatically then get credited to customers’ account.

Vivek Chaturvedi, Chief Marketing Officer, Digit Insurance, said, “We have unfolded this unique offering to enable customers to have a stress-free trip. This is in line with our mission of offering simple and relevant products to our customers enabled through latest technologies.  Offering this product now is essential in its intent as we see revival in domestic travel. This product aims to address the problems that customers have to go through due to flight delays through a frictionless process.”

This cover is applicable only for a single flight. In case customers would like to protect their complete round trip, they should get a cover for flight delay for each onward and return flight. In case the airline has been responsible and has informed the customer about the flight delay at least six hours in advance, then he/she will not be eligible for the flight delay compensation. For more details of the policy, customers can visit the website of Digit Insurance: https://www.godigit.com/domestic-travel-insurance/flight-delay

About Digit:

Go Digit General Insurance Limited is a new-age general insurance company started by Kamesh Goyal and backed by the Fairfax Group, one of the largest financial services groups in the world. The company has raised three rounds of funding amounting to $140 million from Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings and $84 million from three growth equity investors - A91 Partners, Faering Capital and TVS Capital. This combined investment has brought its total funding to $224 million.

Headquartered in Bengaluru, Go Digit General Insurance Limited has partnered with some of the leading companies like Cleartrip, Sterling Holidays, SOTC and Policy Bazaar. It has been named as ‘Insurance Start-up of the Year – India’ at the Insurance Asia Awards 2020 and ‘General Insurance Company of the Year 2019  and 2020’ at Asia Insurance Industry Awards, Singapore. During the ongoing pandemic, it has been able to service several commercial and industrial establishments and secure their employees and customers through relevant health insurance solutions. It has also featured in the Top 25 Indian Start-ups Lists by Linkedin in 2018 and 2019 and was in CB Insights’ top 250 fastest growing fintech companies globally list in 2018 and 2020.