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Mathur panel to check `exclusions’ in health insurance policies

The committee, headed by S Mathur, executive director, IRDAI, will deliberate issues like, exclusions that are prevalent in the health insurance policies. rationalise the exclusions by minimising the number, so as to enhance the scope of health insurance coverage granted. rationalise the exclusions that disallow coverage with respect to new modalities of treatments and technologically advanced medical treatments.

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Insurance Industry must play a key role in India’s growth story:Vice Prez

“The requirement of the youthful population mandates that we have sufficient reforms in the product, design, delivery and services so as to keep at pace with the future.. Simplicity in policy design, suitability in pricing and swiftness in claim payments need to be the guiding mantras for the future,’’ Rajiv Kumar, Secretary, Department of Financial Service, Ministry of Finance said.  

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Govt introduces bill to check unregulated deposits, prescribes 10-year jail for perpetrators of ponzi schemes

It prescribes monetary penalty and jail term which could be extended up to 10 years for duping gullible depositors. The monetary penalty could be as high as Rs 50 crore. The government has proposed these stringent provisions in wake of several ponzi schemes where gullible investors, mostly poor people, were defrauded of amounts running into thousands of crores of rupees.

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ECGC cuts down its exposure to Gems & Jewellery sector

Geetha Muralidhar,CMD, ECGC said,“Keeping in view the ongoing developments in the sector, when large amount of  bank loans have turned into non-performing assets(NPAs) in the  sector, we have put our own control system in place. Earlier, we used to provide cover 75 per cent of loans. Now, whenever the export amount the sector crosses Rs 600 crore, our  cover comes down to 50 per cent

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