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Tamil Nadu among India’s most insurance-aware markets: IMRB Kantar
Key insights revealed by a study initiated by Insurance Awareness...
GST Council meet on rate reform begins; TDP supports, opposition bloc seeks revenue protection
The government had proposed completely exempting life and health...
Regulatory Revamp: IRDAI approves Bima Sugam, unveils 8 new principle-based consolidated regulations
Debasish Panda, chairman, IRDAI These new regulations encompass pivotal domains such as safeguarding of policyholders' interests, rural and social sector responsibilities, electronic insurance marketplace(Bima Sugam), insurance products and operation of foreign...
LIC terminates services of its employee in front-running trades case
Sebi on Tuesday confirmed a securities market ban on five entities, including an employee of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), in a case pertaining to front-running trades of the state-owned insurer Mumbai: Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) on Wednesday said...
IRDAI Board meets today, to approve Bima Sugam
Bima Sugm will be officially called as Rashtriya Bima Sugam Nigam Ltd, built with an intial corpus of Rs 200 crore and the shareholding of the company will be widely held amongst life insurers, general insurers and health insurers with no single entity having...
Indian insurance industry receives Rs 54,000 crore FDI since December 2014: DFS Secy Joshi
Financial Services Secretary Vivek Joshi said that the Assets Under Management (AUM) nearly tripled to Rs 60.04 lakh crore as on March 31, 2023 as compared to Rs 21.07 lakh crore in 2013-14, while total insurance premium recorded more than two-fold jump to Rs 10.4...
Banks asked to check mis-selling of insurance products, safeguard account holders’ interest: DFS Secy
Vivek Joshi ,Financial Services Secretary Banks have been sensitised on the matter, as the Department of Financial Services (DFS) regularly gets complaints that fraudulent and unethical practices are being adopted by banks and life insurance companies for procuring...
Govt approves 17 % wage hike for LIC employees
The revision incorporates an enhancement in National Pension System( NPS) contribution from 10% to 14% for a better future of nearly 24,000 employees, who had joined after Apr, 2010 Mumbai: After banking, the government has approved a 17 per cent hike in the wages of...
Life expectancy dropped by 1.6 years during pandemic, reversing past progress: Lancet study
The study found that life expectancy declined in 84 per cent of countries and territories during this time. This demonstrated the “devastating potential impacts of novel pathogens”, the researchers said New Delhi: Global life expectancy dropped by 1.6 years between...
SCOR overhauls its regional and business structure
The structures within Property & Casualty (P&C) and Life & Health (L&H) are being simplified to achieve more immediate client access and decision-making Paris: French major SCOR is restructuring its business processes to become a simpler and...
Life protection plan for Indian blue-collar workers unveiled in the UAE
Around 3.5 million Indians reside in the UAE, of which about 65 per cent are blue-collar workers, who form one of the largest groups of migrant workers in the UAE. In 2022, the consulate registered a total of 1,750 death cases, of which around 1,100 were workers...
Committee of Creditors asks Hindujas to complete RCap resolution by March end
COC, in an official communication, through its lawyer Luthra and Luthra, on Monday, has further asked IIHL to provide all necessary information, documents and cooperation to obtain the pending regulatory approvals, especially from the Indian insurance regulator IRDAI,...