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Amendment of Insurance Laws Bill, 2025:Achieving “Insurance for All” by 2047
The Insurance Act 1938 did not contain any definition of “insurance...
Indian Insurance Industry-2025: A Year of Consolidation, Customer Focus and Sustainable Growth
Consumers increasingly opted for higher sum insured policies,...
Class Action Suits: 2 separate cases to provide level a playing field for India’s minority investors
Following the insertion in 2016 of a class-action provision in the Companies Act, a number of them could, in theory, come together and seek compensation from the company, its directors, auditors and even external consultants for acting in bad faith By Andy Mukherjee...
Climate change: Hardly a burning issue for Indian voters
A detailed review of the election manifestos revealed that, except for the regional party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), none of the major political parties in India have concrete grassroots-level plans to mitigate the impact of climate change In Europe, green...
Worsening Weather: A $25 billion Market Opportunities
Most large and listed European companies are now required to disclose what they see as risks and opportunities from environmental factors. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission finalized rules in March that would make it mandatory for companies to publish...
Global plastic treaty: Agenda for Stakeholders
Backed by some environment groups, this coalition has called for common, legally binding provisions to “restrain and reduce the production and consumption of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels.” They also are proposing measures such as phasing out...
Takeaways from the Swiss women’s climate victory
This is the first time a regional human rights court has ruled that countries can violate human rights by failing to reduce their climate-warming emissions fast enough.The Court said it interpreted the European Convention on Human Rights language on a right to private...
Who Will Pay for the Baltimore Bridge Collapse?
Experts in maritime law and insurance said determining liability was particularly complex because of the many parties involved, from shipowners in Asia to insurers in Europe to companies around the world that move goods in and out of Baltimore. Numerous lawsuits are...
World Health Day: India focusses on infrastructure development, quality care and transformative initiatives
In addition to the burgeoning hospital market, several other segments of the Indian healthcare industry are witnessing rapid growth and expansion. The telemedicine market, for instance, is expected to touch USD 5.4 billion by 2025, growing at an impressive CAGR of 31...
Apr1 Renewals: New reinsurance opportunities in Indian market
In contrast to last year’s renewal, 4/1 saw a resurgence in property catastrophe capacity. While there were few new players in the market, existing reinsurers demonstrated an increased appetite to grow their property catastrophe books in India. However,despite excess...
India’s most innovative cities are running out of water
Tech professionals are leaving India’s IT hub of Bengaluru amid an intensifying drought that has gripped the city as it sweats through another torrid pre-monsoon season, the Deccan Herald reported this month. More than half of the wells the city depends on for...
Policy Revolution: Empowering insurers with flexibility in Corporate Policies
Ashwani Dhanawat,Chief Investment Officer, Shriram General Insurance Historically, insurers were bound by rigid formatting requirements for policy wordings, limiting their ability to tailor insurance products to the unique needs and risk profiles of their clients.. By...