Mohali, June 16 -- The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Mohali, has directed HDFC ERGO Health Insurance Limited (formerly Apollo Munich Health Insurance) to reimburse Rs.2 lakh to a policyholder for wrongly denying a mediclaim.

The commission also awarded Rs.30,000 as compensation for mental harassment and litigation costs.

The complainant, Kuldeep Singh Sandhu, a resident of TDI City, Sector 117, Kharar, informed the commission that he had bought a group mediclaim policy from Apollo Munich through Canara Bank's Phase 10 branch.

The policy, issued in the name of his wife, Jaspal Kaur, provided both of them a Rs.5-lakh cover and was valid from November 30, 2019, to November 29, 2020.

On March 6, 2020, he was admitted to...