Fair Treatment of Customers | Excellent Customer Experience | Innovation | Shin Kong Life Sustainability

Excellent Customer Experience

SKL is committed to creating a high-quality and comprehensive insurance service journey for customers through the development of innovative financial services, the promotion of digital transformation, and the continuous implementation of treating customers fairly.

Fair Treatment of Customers

SKL upholds the spirit of "Friendly Service." "Ethical Business," and the "Principle for Financial Service Industries to Treat Customers Fairly" as the core values and behavioral guidelines to establish a corporate culture centered around "fair treatment of customers," and to further enhance the accessibility, usability, service quality, and consumer rights protection of financial services.

Realizing Fair Treatment of Customers

By continuously promoting fair treatment of customers, implementing financial inclusive practices, and fostering social common good, SKL constantly promotes financial insurance knowledge to enable consumers to understand the importance of insurance. Additionally, proactive measures are taken to provide more in-person or digital care services to elderly and disabled policyholders, demonstrating our commitment to fair treatment of customers as we strive to become the most trusted leading life insurance brand among policyholders.

 
Treating Customers Fairly Committee

SKL amended the "Fair Treatment of Customers Policy" and the "Strategy of Treating Customers Fairly" in 2019, as well as established the Treating Customers Fairly Committee, which consists of six working groups and three supervisory units responsible for supervising the implementation of the fair treatment of customers and reporting the results to the Board of Directors for deliberation on a regular basis. To protect the rights and interests of our policyholders, we have implemented a top-down culture of treating customers fairly, making it one of the Company's DNA. In 2023, the Treating Customers Fairly Committee met four times to review and report matters related to the Principle of Treating Customers Fairly. The chief compliance officer of the head office reported to the Board of Directors on the business of the Principle of Treating Customers Fairly twice.

Organizational Chart of Treating Customers Fairly Committee
Fair Treatment of Customers Intensive Measures
1
Product design
  • Launched medical material subsidies and long-term care incremental products to enhance senior protection.
  • Introduced flexible policy combinations and digital group purchasing options tailored to the insurance habits of younger generations.
2
Solicitation and marketing
  • Evolved elderly outreach materials for clearer and easier-to-read product information.
  • Established horizontal communication and engagement to accurately confirm the understanding of elderly customers.
  • For elderly policyholders who are illiterate, use third-party witnesses as substitutes for signatures.
  • Promoted the concept and services of policy evaluation through LIFE Lab. both online and offline.
3
Customer service
  • Provided special care for elderly policyholders: Implemented ATM loan assistance and manually reviewed recordings of interactions with elderly policyholders.
  • Established the Family Contact Network to safeguard the economic security of the elderly.
  • Set up a senior citizen service hotline with priority access for the elderly.
  • Showed care for diverse communities: Offered multilingual interpretation services for new immigrants and supported employment opportunities for disadvantaged families.
  • Organized seminars on preventing elderly fraud, inviting elderly policyholders to share their knowledge on scam prevention.
  • Collaborated with Tamkang University's Office of Disability Services to develop the first "Comprehensive Solution to Friendly Services for the Visually Impaired Provided by Financial/Insurance Industry" in Taiwan.
  • Provided special phone care for newly adult customers (18-19 years old) when they requested policy cancellations.
  • Expanded the Customer Information System (CIS) with the "Friendly Care Tagging" service for financially vulnerable customers, adding a single customer view and customer journey data to shorten query times.
  • Implemented FIDO identity verification, making password-free security more reliable than traditional passwords.
4
Claims
  • Combined the claim review notice with the government's long-term care information and established a self-checking mechanism.
5
Grievances
  • Engaged members of the Financial Ombudsman Institution in seminars discussing elderly complaint cases to thoroughly analyze disputes in elderly consumer interactions.
Awards and Honors of Fair Treatment
Recognized for Excellence in Fair Customer Treatment Principles by FSC
(ranked top 25% among insurance companies)
Optimizing Customer Service

SKL has a customer service hotline (0800) in place to quickly provide customers with accurate information and regularly conduct customer satisfaction surveys to enhance the quality of service. We also organize training courses and conduct regular inspections to keep the quality of service stable and improve customer satisfaction.In 2023, we served nearly 470,000 incoming calls, and out of a sample of 50,000 respondents, the service satisfaction rate was 94.3%. Most of the callers made inquiries about policy administration (preservation, premium, and the content of the contract). The NPS for our 0800 Customer Service Hotline was 89.4% in 2023, indicating a high level of customer satisfaction and recognition of our service quality.

2021 2022 2023
Service Satisfaction Rate 88.1% 95.8% 94.3%
NPS 80.1% 81.6% 89.4%
Responding to Policyholder Feedback Attentively

For complaints lodged by policyholders, we have complaint handling procedure and grievance mailbox to handle policyholders' complaints. After receiving policyholders' complaints, the dedicated department will investigate them immediately and follow up on the cases to get back to the policyholders in a timely manner. With the effective control and response, the rankings of the weight and the comprehensive score on the grievances have improved greatly, showing that the results have rolled in.

SKL complaint handling procedure

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