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...
The callers offer unrealistic benefits in the existing life insurance policies including in lapsed policies of policyholders such as unclaimed bonus, agency commission, refund of investment amount / growth amount etc which they can claim, subject to upfront payment of fee / advance tax / deposit or payment to the account of the caller.
1. IRDAI stipulated to all general and health insurers to offer standard individual health insurance policy called “Arogya Sanjeevani” Policy to the public from 01.04.2020. The terms and conditions of the policy are the same across insurers except that premium rates are left to be fixed by the insurers. 2. All the insurers dealing with […]
INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA Ref. No:IRDAI/HLT/REG/CIR/199/07/2020 Date:24-07-2020 To All Insurance Companies and Third Party Administrators Re: Extension of timelines to comply with the Standards and Benchmarks for the Hospitals in the Provider Network 1. Reference is invited to Chapter IV of the Guidelines on Standardization in Health Insurance under Section 1 of […]
With a view to bringing more clarity on certain issues relating to transfer of shares of insurance companies by promoters/shareholders, the Authority in exercise of the powers under sub-section (1) of Section 14 of IRDA Act, 1999 read with Regulation 10 of IRDAI (Transfer of Equity Shares of Insurance Companies) Regulations, 2015
INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA Ref: IRDAI/HLT/REG/CIR/193/07/2020 22nd July, 2020 All Insurers (excluding specialized insurers) and TPAs, wherever applicable Sub: Master Circular on Standardization of Health Insurance Products 1. Objective: 1.1 The extant IRDAI (Health Insurance) Regulations 2016 were notified on 18th July, 2016 superseding IRDA (Health Insurance) Regulations 2013. 1.2 The Guidelines […]
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India Ref: IRDAI/HLT/REG/CIR/194/07/2020 22nd July, 2020 All Insurers (excluding specialized insurers) and TPAs, wherever applicable Sub: Consolidated Guidelines on Product filing in Health Insurance Business 1. Objective: 1.1 The extant IRDAI (Health Insurance) Regulations 2016 were notified on 18th July, 2016 superseding IRDA (Health Insurance) Regulations 2013. 1.2 The […]
INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA Ref. No:– Date: 21-07-2020 Covid-specific standard health indemnity policy “Corona Kavach” PRESS RELEASE 1. As stipulated by IRDAI, all 30 insurers offering health insurance have started offering Covid-specific standard health indemnity policy called “Corona Kavach” to the public with durations of 3 and a half, 6 and a […]
All the general and health insurance companies (insurers) were mandated to offer Individual Covid Standard Health product, Corona Kavach Policy. Insurers are hereby allowed to offer Corona Kavach Policy as group product by duly complying with the norms specified.
In view of increase in number of COVID-19 cases, in order to leverage on the extant healthcare systems put in place, it is important to recognise the make-shift or temporary hospitals permitted by Government for settlement of health insurance claims for insurance companies.
Insurance companies will provide a 5% discount in premium of Corona Kavach to doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers, in terms of the guidelines issued by IRDAI.
