Hi, guess we are missing the context with all the replies.
I am talking about surrendering upon making the transition from one policy to another.
That's where the contestability kicks in right?
It's just something that I have been pondering for a long time, raised it up to my agent previously but always getting an ambiguous kind of explanation.
I was "adviced" to keep the old policy for at least 2 years due to the consideration of contestability period. But was not explained exactly why.
Well, it's just bothering my mind if I could surrender and claim back the cash value in the previous policy, without letting my cash value to drain away unnecessarily.
I just realized a policy could be managed differently in different hands. Just wish to get a better clarification by gathering different opinions.
@lifebalance @ckdenion nevertheless, thanks for replying patiently. Cheers.
on what I see here is the insurance company can contest you up to 2 years of the policy. Especially medical policy, every few months you are cover a certain coverage, until 2 years. if anything serious they will check around your clinic around 20km radius of your workplace and your resident and hospital up to 40km for your history, just in case you did not declare any kind of sickness.