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GST Revamp: Tax on premium for Rs 5 lakh Health and Term life insurance may be slashed to 5% or even zero from 18%, sources say
Shares of insurance companies such as ICICI Prudential , SBI Life,...
Liberty Mutual to pay $4.7 million for settling U.S. criminal bribery probe against its Indian subsidiary
In a letter made public on Monday, the Justice Department said the...
Challenging Jan 1 renewals reflect a market seeking new equilibrium: Guy Carpenter
In a renewal season that was extremely late, ultimately, placements were largely completed at client issued structures and pricing, without many of the requested modifications in coverage Reinsurers presented fractured views at the outset, with more extreme coverage...
Over 19,400 road accidents occurred due to loss of control by driver in 2021: Report
According to the report, hit from the back (21.2 per cent) accounted for the largest share in total accidents and the total number of persons killed (18.6 per cent) during 2021 followed by 'head on collision' (18.5 per cent) and (17.7 per cent), respectively. Head-on...
Russia-Ukraine conflict: more ship insurers exit war cover
At least 12 of the 13 organizations within the International Group of P&I Clubs — the main insurer of risks such as collisions and spills — have changed their policies to exclude claims stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in recent days. The 13 clubs are...
China could see as many as 25,000 deaths a day from Covid-19 in Jan
The jump in cases has fueled concern across the globe about the emergence of new Covid variants that could be more contagious, lethal, or both. That has prompted numerous countries to adopt mandatory testing and entry restrictions for travelers from China, which also...
Reliance Gen offers 2.5% discount on premiums for COVID-19 vaccinated customers
In move to promote preventive vaccination, Reliance General Insurance is offering 2.5 per cent discount* on insurance premiums to customers who have taken the COVID-19 vaccines or Booster shot and other vaccines like Human Papillomavirus vaccine or Pneumococcal...
Outlook 2023: Negotiating a Hard Reinsurance Market
Shankar Garigiparthy,CEO & Country Manager, India Reinsurers have been supporting the Indian market for many years, and have been paying significant amount of claims. With a hardening reinsurance market globally, the Indian market is also likely to face these...
Ship insurers to cancel war cover for Russia, Ukraine from Jan. 1
UK P&I Club said on Dec. 23 that the issue had arisen because of a lack of availability of reinsurance for reinsurers, also known as retrocession “The Club’s reinsurers are no longer able to secure reinsurance for war risk exposure to Russian, Ukrainian or Belarus...
India aims to double auto industry size to Rs 15 lakh cr by 2024 end: Gadkari
Nitin Gadkari, Union minister for Road Transport and Highways ''Currently our automobile industry is Rs 7.5 lakh crore and we want to take it to Rs 15 lakh crore by the end of 2024, making it one of the largest automakers in the world, creating huge job...
1.53 lakh people died in 4.12 lakh road accidents in 2021: Report
“Road accidents decreased by 8.1 per cent and injuries decreased by 14.8 per cent in 2021 compared to 2019.Fatalities, however, on account of road accidents increased by 1.9 per cent in 2021 corresponding to the same period in 2019,” it said New Delhi: A total of...
Unprecedented hard global reinsurance market to make Indian re/insurance renewals costlier in FY2023-24
`Devesh Srivastava,CMD, GIC Re Supply side issues like Russia Ukraine conflict, high global inflation, capacity crunch, shortage of capital, large losses including high losses from Hurricane Ian have forced global reinsurers to jack up their prices exorbitantly for...