LIC’s Jeevan Vaibhav is a close-ended single premium endowment assurance plan which offers guaranteed benefits on death and maturity along with Loyalty Addition, if any, payable on maturity or on death in the last policy year. The plan will be open for sale for a maximum period of 120 days from the date of launch.

As per File and Use Guidelines, the insurance companies are required to launch products after allowing for 60 days for non-life and 30 days for life for clearance by the IRDA. Several times, however, the full details of the product, which are required in order to assess the product, are not furnished and consequently there is delay.

The Health Insurance Policy Holder can at the time of Renewal of his/her policies can shift to another Insurance Company for a similar product, if he is not satisfied with the present Insurance Company for any reason, without losing the Credits gained, if renewed with the existing company. This was not the case earlier; because change in insurance company or plans amounted to loss of these credits and the policies started as new, carrying all time limitations afresh.

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) today said the guidelines for merging general insurance companies are expected to be out by next week. “Probably by next week, it will come out…,” Irda Chairman J Hari Narayanan told report

The government today said that the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) would soon come up with draft guidelines for health insurance portability, which would allow policy holders to switch to another insurer because of poor service

Hinting at a major overhaul in the regulations for insurance sector, IRDA said it will soon come out with merger and acquisition norms for the insurers and IPO guidelines are already on the way. At the same time, Insurance Regulatory and Development

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) told insurance companies to abstain form doing business with 884 corporate agents who had not registered their PAN (permanent account number) with the agency licensing web portal.

The regulator, IRDA has no plans to cap charges on traditional products and also assures on approving new ULIPS on time. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has said it has no plans to cap the charges levied by life insurance companies on traditional products. The regulator also assured it would approve new unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) on time so that insurers could sell them from September 1 onwards.

The Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, on Tuesday said the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority and the Planning Commission will develop a framework to give a further fillip to infrastructure financing by the insurance industry. “Insurance sector has contributed immensely for infrastructure development.

Life insurance agents may lose their licences if the annual persistency ratio of their clients’ policies is less than 50 per cent. In an exposure draft on persistency in life insurance policies announced on Saturday, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority proposed norms for enhancing the performance of agents.