{"id":317578,"date":"2026-09-28T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=317578"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:25:05","slug":"your-life-insurance-policy-is-lost-how-to-get-a-copy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/your-life-insurance-policy-is-lost-how-to-get-a-copy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your life insurance policy is lost! How to get a copy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Life insurance policy is an important document. The insured or beneficiary should keep this insurance policy safe until the term of the policy is over. <\/p>\n<p>An insurance policy is an essential document for the realization of the benefits to be obtained from the insurance policy. The insurance policy is the main basis for determining any benefit related to insurance and seeking a solution in case of any dispute between the beneficiary and the insured. <\/p>\n<p>Even after knowing that the insurance policy is an important document, sometimes this document can be lost, torn, or destroyed due to inadvertence or circumstance. In such a situation, it is the interest of the insured or legal heir to get the insurance policy again. Because the insurer does not pay the claim until the insurance policy is submitted. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> <strong>Here is the process of getting a copy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the insurance policy is lost, a copy of it can be obtained. The process of getting a copy is a bit long and complicated. Once you are sure that you have lost the policy, you can get a copy from the insurer by completing the following procedure: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>First of all, you have to inform the nearest branch office of the life insurer orally or in writing about the loss of the policy.TAG_OPEN_li_30 <\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p>TAG_OPEN_li_29 For a copy of the policy, you have to fill out the application form or file a handwritten application. <\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p>TAG_OPEN_li_28 When registering an application, you must provide the insured&#8217;s full name, contact mobile number as well as e-mail address. <\/li>\n<\/p>\n<li> After registering the application, a 35-day notice should be published in a national daily newspaper on the basis of the sample notice given by the insurer. The cost of publication of the information should be borne by the insured himself. <\/li>\n<li> The notice should mention the insurance policy number and the name of the insured and the date from which the insurance policy has been lost. <\/li>\n<p>A copy of the notice published in the newspaper <\/p>\n<li> should be registered with the office of the insurer and a copy should be kept with you safely. <\/li>\n<li>After the expiry of the 35-day period of publication of the notice, the insurer will prepare a copy of the insurance policy by completing the process of issuing a copy of the policy. <\/li>\n<li> After the expiry of the period of 35 days, the insurer should contact the office of the insurer on the day designated for contact and obtain a copy of the policy. <\/li>\n<li>The insured has to pay the copy fee fixed by the insurer for the copy of the policy. Such charges are usually fixed at Rs 500. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After receiving a copy of the policy, you should keep it carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Life insurance policy is an important document. The insured or beneficiary should keep this insurance policy safe until the term of the policy is over. An insurance policy is an essential document for the realization of the benefits to be obtained from the insurance policy. The insurance policy is the main basis for determining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":289216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45075,45152,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-insurance-education-en","category-life-insurance-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317579,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317578\/revisions\/317579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/289216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}