{"id":973556,"date":"2025-11-13T08:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973556"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:18:59","slug":"children-account-for-nearly-half-of-pollution-related-health-insurance-claims-policybazaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/13\/children-account-for-nearly-half-of-pollution-related-health-insurance-claims-policybazaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Children account for nearly half of pollution-related health insurance claims: Policybazaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurance claims for children under 10 comprised 43% of the pollution-related claims due to respiratory and cardiac diseases. According to a Policybazaar report, claims jumped nearly 14% after Diwali due to a deterioration in the Air Quality Index (AQI), with children being hit the hardest.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, pollution-related claims rose from 7.6% pre-Diwali in 2024 to a projected 9% (data till September) post-Diwali 2025, driven by stubble burning, fireworks, and stagnant winter air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurance claims for children under 10 comprised 43% of the pollution-related claims due to respiratory and cardiac diseases. According to a Policybazaar report, claims jumped nearly 14% after Diwali due to a deterioration in the Air Quality Index (AQI), with children being hit the hardest. Overall, pollution-related claims rose from 7.6% pre-Diwali in 2024 to a projected 9% (data till September) post-Diwali 2025, driven by stubble burning, fireworks, and stagnant winter air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}