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The Authority is in receipt of complaints from policyholders relating to agency identification and servicing, especially when they have approached insurers directly and are serviced through an agency allotted by the insurer. In particular, there are complaints that there are instances of agency codes that are dummy, with the agent being non-existent.
During the inspection of several broker and insurers, it was found that audit trial of many transactions with regard to reinsurance placements and coinsurance was very difficult to track. The trial started going cold after the money reaches the broker and cash flows to and from the reinsurer were not available for monitoring, either with the broker or the insurer. In this context, it is becoming difficult to verify the genuineness of the placements.
Insurance regulator IRDA has slapped a fine of Rs 20 lakh on Bharti Enterprises promoted life and non-life insurance ventures for not informing changes in ownership pattern. Both Bharti Axa Life Insurance Company and Bharti Axa General Insurance Company has been asked to pay a penalty of Rs 10 lakh each.
Medical insurance policies offered by different insurers to policyholders are contracts of reimbursement. However, several policies under these contracts offer a cashless facility as a facility of convenience in their Preferred Provider Network (PPN) of hospitals. This PPN is dynamic and subject to change from time to time. With effect from July 1, 2010, the four public sector general insurers have withdrawn the cashless facility to certain hospitals that were previously in the PPN at Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) told insurance companies to abstain form doing business with 884 corporate agents who had not registered their PAN (permanent account number) with the agency licensing web portal.
The regulator, IRDA has no plans to cap charges on traditional products and also assures on approving new ULIPS on time. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has said it has no plans to cap the charges levied by life insurance companies on traditional products. The regulator also assured it would approve new unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) on time so that insurers could sell them from September 1 onwards.
The Public Sector General Insurance Companies have been incurring health insurance claims in excess of premium received and after factoring in acquisition costs, which are around 10%, and the management expenses which are over 25%, the Combined Ratio i.e. the total expenses for health portfolio exceed 140% of the premium income.
Statement in Response to Calling Attention Motion Notice on Unilateral Revision / Withdrawal of Medical (Cashless) Insurance Products by Public Sector Insurance Companies. The Minister of State for Finance Shri Namo Narain Meena made the following Statement in response to the Calling Attention Motion Notice regarding situation arising out of the unilateral revision / withdrawal of the Medical (cashless) Insurance Products by the Insurance Companies in the Public Sector, in Rajya Sabha, today:
Attention is invited to Regulation 2 (d) of IRDA (Insurance Advertisements and Disclosures) Regulations, 2000 & Part – IV of Guidelines for Unit Linked Life Insurance Products issued vide Circular 032/IRDA/ACTL/Dec-2005 dated December 21, 2005 with regard to insurance advertisements .
The investment in Unit Link Insurance Plans (ULIPs) is now all set to be governed by new set rules from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), to be incorporated in all ULIPs offered from next month. Accordingly, the three-year lock-in period for all unit-linked products will be increased to five years.
