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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 : Understanding the framework for export of goods and services in India, covering roles of DGFT, RBI, banks, and exporters under FEM...
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Corporate Law : The issue concerns identification of systemically important insurers. The regulator retained the same entities, emphasizing their ...
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Corporate Law : IRDAI is moving towards adopting Ind AS to standardize financial reporting across insurers. The framework aims to improve transpar...
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Company Law : Vinay Jaidka Vs Chief Secretary (Delhi High Court) Abhishek Nanda, ld. Counsel who appears for the Insurance Regulatory and Develo...
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Corporate Law : The Supreme Court held recently held in the case of Pushpa @ Leela & Ors. Versus Shakuntala & Ors that the insurance co...
Income Tax : Having regard to the agreement entered into inter se between the hospital and the TPA for payment of money to the hospital, it can...
Income Tax : Srivatsan Surveyors Pvt. Ltd. ('Appellant') is engaged in the business of licensed surveyors and loss assessors under the Insuranc...
Corporate Law : The notification addressed mandatory reinsurance cession for general insurance policies. It mandates 4% cession to GIC Re, ensurin...
Corporate Law : The issue was the need to address increasing cyber risks in the insurance sector. IRDAI introduced updated guidelines with enhance...
Corporate Law : The circular shifts SLAs from a renewal-based licensing system to a registration regime with annual fees. This ensures continuity ...
Corporate Law : IRDAI constituted a Joint Expert Group to tackle transition and implementation issues under Ind AS. The group will guide insurers ...
Corporate Law : The IRDAI issued a circular providing clarifications on the implementation of Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) by insurers eff...
Obligatory Cession for the financial year 2021-22- This notification shall be applicable to Indian Re-insurers and other applicable insurers as per the provisions of Section 101A of the Insurance Act, 1938.
Reference is drawn to clause 5 of Chapter-II of Consolidated Guidelines on Product filing in Health Insurance Business stipulating mandatory disclosures in the prospectus of health insurance products and to clause 6 specifying Customer Information Sheet.
1. This is further to the Authority’s Cir No. IRDA/ACT/CIR/MISC/283/11/2020 dated 17.11.2020 on Panel of Actuaries. 2. Subsequent to the information received from Mr. A V Ramanan under Para- 11 of Cir No. IRDA/ACT/CIR/MISC/228/08/2020 dated 31.08.2020, the Panel of Actuaries is revised as under:
These rules may be called the Insurance Ombudsman (Amendment) Rules, 2020. In the Insurance Ombudsman Rules, 2017, for the words Executive Council of Insurers, the words Council for Insurance Ombudsmen shall be substituted wherever they occur.
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) sponsors proposals under IRDAI Research Grant Scheme, which provides opportunities for research in the field of Insurance. IRDAI welcomes theoretical or applied research work in the areas related to policyholder’s protection, consumer education and issues adjunct with orderly growth of insurance industry aiming to spread awareness about insurance as a vital component of financial inclusion and towards making insurance a part of day-to-day life.
Insurance Companies are considered in the category of Financial Companies in India. Insurance industry involves public participation at large. General Public become policyholders /stakeholders in insurance companies. The are putting their hard-earned monies to secure their future from various types of risks. Insurance Development Regulatory Authority of India, established in the year 1999 is controlling […]
In order to make available a standard Personal Accident product with common coverage and policy wordings across the industry, an exposure draft on Guidelines on Standard Personal Accident product along with Standard terms and conditions (Annexure -1), Customer Information Sheet (Annexure- 2) and Use and File format (Annexure-3) is issued and attached herewith.
The Authority has notified IRDAI (Minimum Information Required for Investigation and Inspection) Regulations 2020 in the official gazette on 23rd November 2020. These regulations will come into force after 6 months from the date of notification i.e., from 23rd May 2021.
There are some reports in the media about hike in health insurance premium rates by general and health insurers. Some of the news items attributed the increase in health insurance premiums to certain recent regulatory initiatives taken by IRDAI.
As you are aware, cyclone Nivar (Nov,2020) has caused loss to property in some parts of the country. The General Insurers may have issued policies for protection of lives and property located in the affected areas. There is an urgent need for the insurance industry to take immediate steps to mitigate the hardships of the affected insured population by ensuring immediate registration and settlement of eligible claims.
