Finance : Section 10(10D) provides exemption only when premium limits are within prescribed thresholds. If premiums exceed these limits, mat...
Finance : The article highlights the need for integrated travel and health insurance to manage both medical emergencies and trip disruptions...
Income Tax : Even where premium limits are exceeded, death benefits continue to be fully exempt. This ensures protection for beneficiaries. The...
Finance : Cyber insurance helps cover financial losses from cyberattacks like hacking and data breaches. It is becoming essential as digital...
Finance : The restoration feature ensures that insurance coverage can be reinstated after a major claim, helping maintain protection for oth...
Corporate Law : IRDAI formed a sub-committee to review private health insurance and improve policyholder experience. The initiative focuses on exp...
Corporate Law : The issue concerns identification of systemically important insurers. The regulator retained the same entities, emphasizing their ...
Corporate Law : IRDAI directs insurers to follow anti-dark pattern guidelines and submit compliance reports. The move strengthens consumer protect...
Corporate Law : The Government clarified that claim rejections are based on policy conditions like exclusions and OPD classification. IRDAI mandat...
Corporate Law : IRDAI is moving towards adopting Ind AS to standardize financial reporting across insurers. The framework aims to improve transpar...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court held that insurers impleaded as parties can raise all grounds, including quantum challenges. It remitted the case fo...
Income Tax : The SC upheld that reinsurance premiums paid to foreign entities are not taxable in India. It confirmed that absence of income acc...
Income Tax : The High Court held that reinsurance premiums paid to non-residents are not taxable in India and no TDS is required. It upheld Tri...
Corporate Law : SC affirmed a fire insurance claim after insurer attempted repudiation based on an arbitrary surveyor's report. Ruling held that o...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court rules pre-2015 life insurance policies were freely transferable, affirming High Court's decision against LIC's refus...
Corporate Law : The notification addressed mandatory reinsurance cession for general insurance policies. It mandates 4% cession to GIC Re, ensurin...
Corporate Law : The issue was the need to address increasing cyber risks in the insurance sector. IRDAI introduced updated guidelines with enhance...
Corporate Law : The circular shifts SLAs from a renewal-based licensing system to a registration regime with annual fees. This ensures continuity ...
Corporate Law : IRDAI constituted a Joint Expert Group to tackle transition and implementation issues under Ind AS. The group will guide insurers ...
Corporate Law : The IRDAI issued a circular providing clarifications on the implementation of Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) by insurers eff...
Buying health insurance is often procrastinated by young and healthy individuals. The primary reason being, while you are young and healthy, no illness can affect you. But, this is not the truth. A health ailment can strike at an inopportune time and has severe financial consequences along with mental stress; sometimes as severe as leaving […]
Life insurance is indeed a matter of life and death. As an investor, you must place your trust in the hands of an insurance company to take care of your loved ones when you are gone. The insurer you choose should be reliable and stable enough that you can commit to them for a long-term […]
Insurance is playing a vital role in our life now days. After this COVID-19 pandemic, we have realized the importance of insurance and government has also provided various facilities to general public to secure their lives and properties from various types of risks. Through insurance we shall reduce the impact of risk insured. The risk may […]
After the fear of real pandemic of Covid-19, the stories of hugely high cost of treatment of corona in private hospitals has created another pandemic of fear amongst almost all the persons specially those who presently do not have any health insurance. In order to help such persons to get at least financially secured against […]
Dear Friends, you all know that our world is full of uncertainties and risks. Some of these are man made and some made by All Mighty. In the meantime, whole world is facing unprecedented risk of life due to man made COVID-19 pandemic. This virus has changed our lives and forced us to stay in […]
Insurance is a contract, represented by a policy, in which an individual or entity receives finance protection or reimbursement against losses from an insurance company. Insurance companies base their business models around assuming and diversifying risk. The essential insurance model involves pooling risk from individual players and redistributing it across a larger portfolio. However, the […]
Article explains Meaning of Insurance, Requirements of Insurance Contract, Principles of Insurance Contract, Benefits of Insurance Contract, Types of Insurance and Life Insurance, its benefits & types. Insurance Insurance can be defined as—- transferring or lifting of risk from one individual to a group and sharing of losses on an equitable basis by all members […]
Today, most of us get a health insurance plan through our employers. However, individual health insurance is the best way to get insurance coverage if you aren’t eligible for employer-sponsored health insurance plans or if the coverage of your employer’s plan is limited. As per a recent survey, today’s millennial generation has the highest rate of uninsured individuals, […]
As the lockdown has been further extended up to 17th May 2020, keeping in view the difficulty faced by some policyholders to renew the policies in time, the Authority has now allowed extended grace period up to 31st May 2020 for all policies where premium was due in the month of March 2020.
Introduction The spread of Pandemic COVID-19 all around the globe has created a situation of hue and cry in different parts of the globe. The Pandemic COVID-19 has affected almost 22 Lakhs people and has caused death of almost 1.5 Lakhs of people all over the globe. In order to contain the pandemic COVID-19 in […]
