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Number of such products that can be filed as PoS product is capped at three (3) per insurance company. In addition to these three insurance products, Standard Health Insurance Product— AROGYA SANJEEVANI POLICY is also allowed to be marketed by Point of Sales.
The Objective of Guidelines on Standardization of General Clauses in Health Insurance Policy Contracts s is to standardize the common general clauses incorporated in indemnity based Health Insurance [excluding Personal Accident (hereinafter called as PA) and Domestic / Overseas Travel] products covering Hospitalization, Domiciliary hospitalization and Day care treatment in order to simplify the wordings of general clauses in the policy contracts and ensure uniformity and greater transparency.
Authority has notified IRDAI (Insurance Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 for allowing 100% Foreign Direct Investment in insurance intermediaries. One of the conditions specified in the said regulation is that the insurance intermediary that has majority shareholding of foreign investors shall take prior permission of the Authority for repatriating dividend.
The health insurance market is having a number of individual health insurance products. Each product has unique features and the insuring public may find it a challenge to choose an appropriate product. Therefore, with the following objectives, the Authority has decided to mandate all general and health insurers to offer the standard individual health insurance product:
Every individual policyholder (including members under family floater policy) covered under an indemnity based individual health insurance policy shall be provided an option of migration at the explicit option exercised by the policyholder;
Migration means, the right accorded to health insurance policyholders (including all members under family cover and members of group health insurance policy), to transfer the credit gained for pre-existing conditions and time bound exclusions, with the same insurer.
All Exposure and Prudential Norms applicable for investments in Mutual Funds covered under Para 1.3 of Master Circular – Investments shall apply for investment made in Debt ETFs, in addition to the following conditions:
INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA MASTER CIRCULAR ON POINT OF SALES PRODUCTS AND PERSONS – LIFE INSURANCE IRDAI/LIFE/CIR/MISC/215/12/2019 2nd December, 2019 VER-01 2nd December, 2019 Master Circular on Point of Sales Products and Persons — Life Insurance 1. The Authority had issued the following Guidelines in order to give an added fillip in providing easy access to […]
Authority has received representations from Life Insurance Council and various life insurers requesting for extension of the timelines referred in the quoted circulars citing reasons of ensuring system preparedness and training of personnel required. On considering the same
(1) These regulations may be called the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Health Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
