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SCOR sees first quarterly loss since 2022
Thierry Leger,Chief Executive Officer,SCOR SE The Paris-based...
BajajCapital Insurance launches comprehensive pet insurance plans
BajajCapital Insurance announced the launch of its new pet...
Govt working on digitisation of healthcare services under ‘One Nation, One Health’: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi PM Modi said the government focused on seven things in terms of health including preventive healthcare including through yoga and swachhta campaigns, early detection through new testing centres, primary healthcare centres in every...
ManipalCigna Health’s new product to provide cover to diabetes, obesity patients with 90 days waiting period
Prasun Sikdar, managing director and CEO, ManipalCigna Halth Insurance The product offers cashless services even for OPD expenses, industry first feature `Switch Off' that allows customers to switch off the cover while travelling abroad from second year onwards, for a...
Irdai proposes to standardise administration of group health insurance products
''All risk factors per unit of coverage such as individual, family, group floater, etc, should be separately analysed and priced,'' it said. Further, pricing should be based on sound actuarial principles, supporting data considering all the relevant aspects of pricing...
Bajaj General’s net profit falls 10% to Rs 248 crore in Q4FY2021-22 on higher covid claims
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance CEO Tapan Singhel It may be only company in the industry, as all the general insurers are yet to announce their FYQ4 2021-22 results, which, at 98.3 per cent, has a combined ratio below 100% in Q4 FY22 as compared to 96.6% in Q4 FY21...
70% who took booster didn’t get Covid in third wave, says study
The study also showed that the third wave affected those aged below 40 the most -- around 45 per cent of them contracted the disease. The researchers also concluded that a long gap after the second dose correlated with a higher chance of infection during the third...
Insurtech funding in India jumps to $ 800 million in 2021 from $290 million in 2020 :BCG Report
There has been a steady rise in no of insurtech unicorns with over 20 Unicorns in 2021, 14 in United States, 4 in UK, 2 each in India (Acko & Digit Insurance ) & France , 1 each in Austria, Israel & Mexico Jitesh Shah, MD & Partner BCG Asia Pacific...
PM Modi to chair COVID review meeting with CMs on April 27
Prime Minister Narendra Modi As per data available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, today India's Cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage exceeds 187.67 crores, with over 2.65 crore first doses of COVID vaccines administered for the age group 12-14...
Covishield found ineffective against Omicron, booster a must: Study
The Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology scientists concluded the report saying that the fight against Covid-19 is far from over. Although vaccine boosters or third doses have shown an augmentation in the immune response against the...
1 in 4 hospitalised Covid patients feel fully recovered after a year: Study
"We found female sex and obesity were major risk factors for not recovering at 1 year," said researcher Rachael Evans from the University of Leicester in the UK One year after having Covid-19, only around one in four patients, who were hospitalised, felt fully well...
Mansukh Mandaviya calls India as World’s largest pharmacy, vaccine manufacturing country
Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya "Indian pharma industry is known globally for its affordable and quality drugs. We shall soon get the competitive edge in medical devices too with research and innovation," he added New Delhi: Union Minister of Health & Family...