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...
Under IRDA Staff (Officers and Employees) Regulations, 2016, following Holidays will be observed by all offices of IRDA during calendar year 2017
In pursuance to the Final Order No. IRDA/LIFE/ORD/MISC/267/12/2014 dated 1st December, 2014 in the matter of Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd., while conducting an audit by an independent Chartered Accountant firm (Verma Mehta & Associates, Mumbai) into the outsourcing arrangements and the structure/shareholding pattern/composition and existence of all the outsourced entities, it was reported that the following 24 entities were not traceable for physical visit and investigation/audit.
The Foreign Investment proposals up to forty-nine per cent of the total paid up equity of the Indian Insurance Company shall be allowed on the automatic route subject to verification by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA IRDA/AGTS/CIR/GLD/081/04/2015, Dated- 21.04.2015 All Insurers: Re: IRDAI (Appointment of Insurance Agents) Guidelines, 2015- Instructions to Insurers. This circular is in continuation to the Guidelines on Appointment of Insurance Agents 2015 issued by the Authority vide notification dated 16.03.2015 and instructions issued vide Circular Number IRDA/ AGTS/ GDL/ CIR/ […]
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 24 of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 (41 of 1999), the Central Government hereby, makes the following rules, namely:—
As per these rules, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) proposals up to 26 per cent of the total paid-up equity of the Indian Insurance Company shall be allowed on the automatic route, and FDI proposals which take the total Foreign Investment above 26 per cent and up to the cap of 49 per cent shall require FIPB approval.
Insurance Sector has entered into the seventh year of effective AML/CFT regime. At this juncture, there is a felt need to capture certain information on AML/CFT matters on a regular basis.
The Authority has recently notified IRDA (Health Insurance) Regulations, 2013 and IRDA (Third Party Administrators – Health Services) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2013. The guidelines on ‘Standardization of Health Insurance’ have been issued by the Authority on 20th Feb., 2012.
The license granted by the Authority may be cancelled by the Authority where the surveyor and loss assessor does not represent within a period of 45 days from the date of order of suspension.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) created to issue a unique identification number (“Aadhaar”) to residents of India authorize/recognize “Registrars’ to enroll individuals for Aadhaar. We note that currently UIDAI has primarily engaged with State Governments, Central Ministries and public sector organizations to act as Registrars. As per the information available with the Authority, in the insurance sector only Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is registered as Registrar with UIDAI.
