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Every claim made against an insurance company in respect of a loss, would be a claim within purview of claims “requiring to be paid or settled” under section 64UM(2) of Insurance Act.
Reference is invited to point no. 5.1 of Guidelines on Outsourcing of Activities by Insurance Companies (Circular No: IRDA/Life/CIR/GLD/013/02/2011 dated 01st February, 2011) wherein it is prescribed that entities engaged for the activities referred at Column (4) of Sl. No. 3 of Annexure – 1 (Cheque pick and Banking) shall be only a Company registered under Indian Companies Act, 1956 with a net worth of atleast Rs 10 Cores.
Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance Company Limited, a joint venture life insurance company promoted by Edelweiss Capital Limited and Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Insurance Company, Japan has been registered as a Life Insurer under Section 3 of the Insurance Act, 1938 with the Authority. The Certificate of Registration (Forms IRDA/ R3) has been issued by the Authority on 10.05.2011. With this registration, the total number of Life Insurers registered with the Authority has gone up to 24.
Several branches of the country’s largest insurance company Life Insurance Corporation of India are allegedly causing huge loss to exchequer by issuing receipts without affixing revenue stamps. The matter came to light during a hearing before the Central Information Commission which directed the LIC to make public details of all the revenue stamps purchased by the Corporation between 2006-10.
This has reference to our tender advertisement No.: IRDA/IT/NTC/TNDR/085/05/2011 dated 2nd May, 2011. The dates for submissions of Technical / Commercial bids and for further tendering activities have been re-scheduled as detailed below:
Attention is invited to Guidelines on Insurance Repositories and Electronic Issuance of Insurance policies issued by IRDA vide Ref No.IRDA/ADMN/GDL/GLD/080/04/2011 on 29th April, 2011. In accordance to Clause 5 (2) of the guidelines, Applications are called for from the companies that conform the eligibility criteria laid down in the said guidelines.
IRDA requests for Proposal from reputed IT firms / Organizations for the development and implementation of Integrated Surveyor Licensing Management System (ISLMS), maintenance and hosting the same. For details, please visit http://www.irda.gov.in. Last date for receipt of application for technical bid is 7th May 2011 by 3.00 PM
I. Annual Filing of Compliance Status- a) All insurers are required to file a Report on status of compliance with the C G Guidelines on an annual basis w.e.f. the Financial Year 2010-11. This report shall be filed within 90 days from the end of the Financial year (i.e., before 30th June). The report should be filed in the format as placed in Annexure-1. b) Clause 9 of the CG Guidelines requires confirmation of disclosures made in the Annual Accounts. In such instances, where the finalization of Annual Accounts extends beyond 90 days of the close of the financial year, the status on disclosure in the Financial Statements as required under the aforementioned clause may be made within 15 days of adoption of the Annual Accounts by the Board of Directors of the insurers. This is in line with the stipulations issued by IRDA vide Circular No. IRDA/F&A/013/2005-06 dated 9th June, 2005.
Based on the detailed scrutiny of the Technical & Commercial Proposals submitted by the Shortlisted IT firms and further evaluation based on Combined Quality Cum Cost Based System (CQCCBS), M/s L & T Infotech has been formally selected as an Implementation Agency for the implementation of Business Analytics Project.
The objective of creating an insurance repository is to provide policyholders a facility to keep insurance policies in electronic form and to undertake changes, modifications and revisions in the insurance policy with speed and accuracy in order to bring about efficiency, transparency and cost reduction in the issuance and maintenance of insurance policies.
