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Corporate Law : Summarizing IRDAI's 2024 regulations on insurance advertising, this text covers definitions, mandatory disclosures, prohibitions, ...
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Corporate Law : IRDAI has proposed comprehensive amendments to insurance intermediary regulations to implement the SBSR Act, 2025. The proposals s...
Corporate Law : IRDAI's draft 2026 amendments overhaul actuarial governance, reporting, investment norms, and insurer compliance to align with the...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has released draft amendments simplifying the registration framework for foreign reinsurers and Lloyd's India while introduc...
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...
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Corporate Law : IRDAI has extended transitional arrangements for annual fee payment and registration certificates until 31 August 2026 or notifica...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has constituted a Working Group to develop governance, oversight, and security frameworks for AI adoption in the insurance s...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has amended its earlier notification to prescribe a 4% obligatory cession and require the entire cession to be placed with G...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has cautioned that the entity's Certificate of Registration as an Insurance Marketing Firm has expired and remains unrenewed...
Corporate Law : The regulator held that agreements lacking clear fee provisions undermined contractual clarity and regulatory compliance. A penalt...
There have been several representations from consumer associations and policyholders for enabling portability of health insurance policies from one insurer to other insurer. Persons shifting from one region to other regions are many times put to disadvantage due to lack of insurers’ office providing necessary policy servicing at the new location. Further, employees shifting from one organization to another organization many times lose health insurance cover due to lack of portability of the health insurance policies. It is essential to protect the policyholders against discontinuity and consequential loss of Pre Existing Diseases (PED) cover by making the health insurance plans portable across the insurance companies. The portability will also ensure that the policyholder is not tied to one single insurer throughout his life for fear of losing the cover of PED.
More than 10 years after opening up of the insurance sector, regulator Irda today proposed to allow mergers and acquisitions in the general insurance business that requires consolidation among the 24 industry players, most of which are loss-making.
Under the new IRDA regime, the Life Insurance Corporation of India has launched two new non-linked plans Bima Account I and Bima Account II. The plans guarantee minimum returns, transparent charges and provide risk cover. According to the press relea
CIRCULAR NO. 305.2/1/F&AILAB2008/277/2011-12, DATED 9-2-2011 Section 35 of the Insurance Act, 1938 lays down the framework for amalgamation and transfer of life insurance companies. However, a similar provision is not available in case of non-life insurance companies. This anomaly is proposed to be rectified in the Insurance Amendment Bill, 2008. Against the background of the […]
Insurance – Guidelines on Outsourcing of Activities by Insurance Companies Reference: 1. INV/CIR/031/2004-05 dated 27th July, 2004 2. INV/CIR/058/2004-05 dated 28th December, 2004 3. RBI/2006/167 DBOD.NO.BO.40/21.04.158/2006-07 4. Regulation 7(c) of IRDA (Registration of Companies) Regulations, 2000 IRDA/LIFE/CIR/GLD/013/02/2011, DATED 1-2-2011 1. Introduction 1.1 Insurers in India are increasingly using outsourcing, as a means of both reducing […]
Insurance – Creation of Reserve for Unexpired Risk (URR) by the Non-life Insurance Companies for Health Segment CIRCULAR No. IRDA/F&I/CIR/F&A/015/02/2011, dated 2-2-2011 Authority vide Circular No. IRDA/F&A/ClR/49/Mar-09, dated March 24, 2009 had relaxed the requirement of section 64(1)(ii)(b) of the Act for computation of Reserve for Unexpired Risk for Health segment for the year 2008-09 […]
Insurance- Spurious calls identifying themselves as IRDA Employees in a bid to sell Insurance policies Circular No. CAD/1/10-11, dated 21-1- 2011 The Authority has received complaints from various Individuals about certain spurious calls as mentioned above. While IRDA has already filed a police complaint at New Delhi and also issued a notice cautioning the public […]
Circular No. IRDA/F&A/CIR/SOLVN/011/01/2011, dated 27-1-2011 Various general insurance companies are running health insurance schemes which are sponsored/subsidized by Central/State Government. However, the premium of such schemes are not paid upfront but paid at a later stage. The IRDA (Assets, Liabilities and Solvency Margins of Insurers) Regulations, 2000 lay down the manner of computation of solvency […]
Insurance watchdog Irda today said the guidelines for public float of life insurance companies will be ready this fiscal, while the non-life may take more time. “Initial Public Offering (IPO) guidelines for life insurance companies will be out soon.
The Supreme Court held recently held in the case of Pushpa @ Leela & Ors. Versus Shakuntala & Ors that the insurance company will be liable to pay compensation for road accident death even if the owner had sold the vehicle so long as his name is the official register. The previous owner might have handed over possession of the vehicle to the buyer, but he and his insurer continued to be liable to pay compensation to third parties if the insurance policy is in his name. In this case, Pushpa vs Shakuntala, the owner sold the truck to another person. But the vehicle was insured by Oriental Insurance Company in the previous owner’s name. There was an accident killing three persons. Their dependents moved the motor accident claims tribunal against Oriental and the previous owner. The tribunal and the Himachal Pradesh high court held that the previous owner had no liability as he was no longer the owner of the vehicle. They ruled that the new owner alone was liable to pay. The dependents appealed to the Supreme Court. The insurance company argued in the Supreme Court that the liability should entirely be that of the new owner as the old owner had lost control of the vehicle after the sale. Reversing this view, the Supreme Court made the insurance company liable to pay the compensation amount.
