Corporate Law : IRDAI's Bima Vahak initiative aims to expand insurance reach in rural areas. It introduces a women-centric distribution channel fo...
Corporate Law : Overview of IRDAI's 2024 Corporate Governance Regulations for Insurers, covering board composition, committee structures, KMP appo...
Corporate Law : Learn about Bima-ASBA, IRDAI's new facility for insurance premium payments. This mechanism blocks funds in a prospect's account vi...
Corporate Law : Summarizing IRDAI's 2024 regulations on insurance advertising, this text covers definitions, mandatory disclosures, prohibitions, ...
Corporate Law : Learn about IMF Registration for private limited companies, its process, requirements, and benefits. Expand into insurance marketi...
Corporate Law : IRDAI approved implementation of Ind AS for all insurers from 1 April 2026 with transitional arrangements and limited forbearance....
Corporate Law : The proposed PEPF framework seeks to improve insurance penetration through financial literacy, digital services, and awareness pro...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has proposed comprehensive amendments to insurance intermediary regulations to implement the SBSR Act, 2025. The proposals s...
Corporate Law : IRDAI's draft 2026 amendments overhaul actuarial governance, reporting, investment norms, and insurer compliance to align with the...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has released draft amendments simplifying the registration framework for foreign reinsurers and Lloyd's India while introduc...
Corporate Law : Every claim made against an insurance company in respect of a loss, would be a claim within purview of claims “requiring to be p...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court held recently held in the case of Pushpa @ Leela & Ors. Versus Shakuntala & Ors that the insurance co...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has extended transitional arrangements for annual fee payment and registration certificates until 31 August 2026 or notifica...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has constituted a Working Group to develop governance, oversight, and security frameworks for AI adoption in the insurance s...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has amended its earlier notification to prescribe a 4% obligatory cession and require the entire cession to be placed with G...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has cautioned that the entity's Certificate of Registration as an Insurance Marketing Firm has expired and remains unrenewed...
Corporate Law : The regulator held that agreements lacking clear fee provisions undermined contractual clarity and regulatory compliance. A penalt...
The M/s. Angel Financial Advisors Pvt. Ltd. (CA) submission that the case under the observation is a one off case is not tenable as similar cases of solicitation by Angel Broking is covered under Charge No.1. The CA is cautioned for following sales practice of engaging the group company Angel Brokering. Considering this particular case […]
The Web Aggregator was not ensuring that the leads generated are concluded within three months of their generation and even then, the Web Aggregator has been paid remuneration from the concerned insurer. It was observed that there were 12,263 cases where the web aggregator received commission for sale of insurance product after three months from the date of lead generation. Same was verified from the lead management system of the WA.
Post personal hearing, the SLA submitted some documents in support of their submission that they are sending regular reminders to the insured in case there is delay on the part of the insured in the submission of documents. However major portion of the documents are not related to the sample claims indicated under the observation. Further, […]
Reg.37(1) of the Regulations, which provides for ‘grant of single broking registration to one corporate group’. In terms of the above Regulations, one corporate group shall be given only one certificate of registration in the same category of broker. Therefore, multiple broking entities in the same group for carrying out similar kind of or same […]
REGULATORY UPDATES -A GIST OF IMPORTANT CIRCULARS/NOTIFICATIONS/GUIDELINES ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY (IRDAI). Submitted, for information, the supervisory/ regulatory directions from IRDAI from 1st July 2021 to 31st October, 2021 . The Authority has issued certain Regulations/Guidelines/Circulars on issues as listed below: 1. Standards and Benchmarks for the Hospitals in the provider Network- (IRDAICircular No. IRDAI/HLT/REG/MISC/199/07/2021 […]
Insurers maintain separate current accounts with banks at different operational levels, i.e., Branch offices, Controlling offices, Corporate office, etc., for the purpose of premium collection, management expenses, policy payments, investment operations, etc. Maintenance of current accounts at different operational levels for specific purposes helps the insurers in managing funds, reconciliation of transactions and servicing claims of policyholders efficiently.
The charge pertains to non-submission of requisite information by the Broker to the inspection team such as solicitation related documents, mandate letters, comparison chart, quotes, proposal form, policy documents, complaints related documentation etc.
TPA did not fulfill the Minimum Business Requirements during 2019-20 in any of the parameters as specified under regulation 14 of TPA Regulations, 2016 read with the Minimum Business norms as stipulated under Annexure-11 of Circular Ref: IRDAI/TPA/REG/CIR/130/06/2020 dated 03rd June 2020. It is also observed that on an average basis for the years under […]
Insurers may note that the revised instructions shall come into effect from the financial year 2021-22 and the uploading of disclosures on website shall be on quarterly basis from the period ending 30th September, 2021 whereas publishing in Newspapers will be on half yearly basis from the period ending 30th September, 2021.
IRDAI permits Insurers to classify investments in Preference Shares and Equity Shares as part of Approved Investment of for at least 2 consecutive years immediately preceding (as required under Regulation 3(a)(4) and 3(a)(S) of IRDAI (Investment) Regulations, 2016) for the period from 1st October, 2021 to 31st March, 2022.
