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IRDA extend the facilitation dispensing with physical signature on proposal forms of Life Insurance Policies and permitting OTP based validation, up to 30/09/2022. All other provisions, in respect of this dispensation, of the above referred circulars remain unchanged. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India Ref: IRDAI/Life/Cir/Misc/059/03/2022 Date: 31st March, 2022 To All Life Insurers […]
IRDAI decided to further extend the dispensation allowed for General Insurance proposal in physical form and wet signature on the proposal form upto the period of 30/09/2022. Insurance Regulatory And Development Authority of India Ref: IRDAI/NL/CIR/MISC/060/03/2022 Date: 31st March, 2022 To All General Insurers Sub: (a) Issuance of Electronic Policies and (b) Dispensing with physical […]
IRDAI extends the facilitation of dispensing with physical signatures and wet signature on General & Health Insurance proposal forms in respect of health insurance policies for a further period of SIX (6) months i.e up to the period 30.9.2022. INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA Circular Extension of timelines for Dispensing with Physical documents and […]
Corona Kavach Policies offered as per Guidelines on Covid Standard Indemnity based Health Policy and Corona Rakshak Policies offered as per Guidelines on Covid Standard benefit based Health Policy are permitted to be offered and renewed by all insurers up to 30.09.2022.
IRDAI permits Insurers to classify investments in Preference Shares and Equity Shares as part of Approved Investment if dividend is paid on such Shares for at least 2 years out of 3 consecutive years immediately preceding instead of for at least 2 consecutive years immediately preceding (as required under Regulation 3(a)(4) and 3(a)(5) of IRDAI (Investment) Regulations, 2016) for the period from 1st April, 2022 to 30th September, 2022.
Reference is drawn to the provisions of IRDAI (Health Insurance) Regulations, 2016 in accordance to which every insurer shall evolve a health insurance underwriting policy covering approach and aspects relating to offering health insurance coverage not only to standard lives but also to substandard lives. Attention is also drawn to provision of The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.
A draft notification to prescribe base premium for Motor Third Party Insurance Premium for the Financial Year 2022-23 has been prepared and attached as Annexure B, along with Basic methodology used for arriving at the Premium Rates for Motor Third Party Insurance Cover for the Financial Year 2022-23 (Annexure -A to this letter), for inviting objections and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected thereby, before the expiry of 10 days from the date the same is placed on the MoRTH Et IRDAI website and made available to the public.
Central Government hereby notifies that the form, manner, period and details prescribed in respect of declaration to be made and particulars to be included in the register to be maintained under the Companies Act shall apply to the Life Insurance Corporation under section 5C of the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956
These rules may be called the Life Insurance Corporation of India General (Amendment) Rules, 2022. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
Taking into consideration the experience gained while reviewing the dynamic needs of the insurance industry, the TPA Regulations 2016 were comprehensively reviewed in order to examine the scope for allowing operational freedom to both insurers and TPAs.
