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 in-principle drafting and publication of new and amended regulations following the Sabka Bima, Sabki Raksha (Amendm...
Corporate Law : IRDAI approved drafting regulations for implementing a Risk Based Capital framework to strengthen solvency assessment and align In...
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 : 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 : The Authority found that core survey functions were carried out by unlicensed personnel. It held that such outsourcing violated re...
Corporate Law : The regulator cancelled a surveyor’s licence after finding false records, mismatched filings, and inaccurate disclosures. The ru...
Corporate Law : The case involved submission of a forged diploma for obtaining and renewing a licence. The Authority held that continued reliance ...
Corporate Law : IRDAI delegates Section 34 powers between Whole Time Members and Chairperson. The move aims to streamline enforcement actions and ...
Corporate Law : The notification addressed mandatory reinsurance cession for general insurance policies. It mandates 4% cession to GIC Re, ensurin...
IRDAI imposes Penalty of Rs. 30 Lakh and issued to Advisory M/s SBI General Insurance Company Ltd. for Non-Compliance with minimum obligations under Motor Third Party business as specified in IRDAI (Obligation of Insurer in respect of Motor Third Party Insurance Business) Regulations, 2015 for the financial year 2018-19. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Ref: […]
The Authority is in receipt of complaints stating that some of the insurance companies are not issuing Corona Kavach and Corona Rakshak Policies. In this regard, it is clarified that all General and Health Insurers are mandated to offer Corona Kavach Policy vide guidelines dated 26.06.2020.
Title Insurance products are currently offered by only a few General Insurers in the Indian market. The features of these products, namely the terms and conditions, scope of coverage etc vary from insurer to insurer.
IRDAI penalises Universal Sompo General Insurance Company Ltd for Non-Compliance with minimum obligations under Motor Third Party business as specified in IRDAI (Obligation of Insurer in respect of Motor Third Party Insurance Business) Regulations, 2015 for the financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India Order Ref. No: IRDA/NL/ORD/MISC/124/05/2021 Date: 07-05-2021 […]
Considering violations noticed in case of 6 sample cases, as per Section 102(b) of Insurance Act, 1938; IRDAI levies a penalty of Rs.6,00,000 (Rs.Six Lakh) on Shriram General Insurance Company Limited.
Time limit for ensuring compliance with the directions regarding Public Disclosures on websites by insurers, for the period ended on 31.03.2021, is also extended by a period of 30 days. The insurers may avail the additional time and ensure compliance with the requirements of all regulatory filing and uploading of the public disclosures.
INSURANCE REGULATORY UPDATES –MAY, 2021 The IRDAI and Insurance Law updates provides synopsis of the introduction, amendments and changes brought by the Government the previous month ( April 2021) is being published in this bulletin. Sr. No. Particulars Page No. 1. IRDAI through Circular No. IRDAI/ACT/CIR/MISC/070/04/2021 dated 1st April,2021 has instructed the insurers to submit Technical […]
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Preparation of Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report of Insurance Companies) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2021
Indian travel market is one of the biggest markets in the world. As per reports, around 36% of Indian households undertake trips for one purpose or other both within and outside the country. It is desired that all travels undertaken should be safe.
A discussion paper on ‘Increasing General Insurance penetration in rural areas with special focus on agriculture and allied activities through the concept of a Model Insured Village’ has been issued by the Authority.
