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The Health Insurance Policy Holder can at the time of Renewal of his/her policies can shift to another Insurance Company for a similar product, if he is not satisfied with the present Insurance Company for any reason, without losing the Credits gained, if renewed with the existing company. This was not the case earlier; because change in insurance company or plans amounted to loss of these credits and the policies started as new, carrying all time limitations afresh.
eference is invited to the Authority’s Circular Ref: IRDA/CAD/GDL/AGN/016/02/ 2011 dated 151h February, 2011 wherein, interalia, all Non Life Insurers are directed to lay down Minimum Business Requirements for Individual Agents. The said provision of Minimum Business Requirements is now being extended to all Corporate Agents engaged with Non Life Insurance Companies for soliciting the Insurance Business. Accordingly, all Non Life Insurers are directed to lay down the Minimum Business Requirements for Corporate Agents and monitor the performance of Corporate Agents in this regard as often as it is required.
IRDA has twin objectives of development of the industry as well as protection of the policyholder. Both the objectives are interlinked and unless the policyholders’ interests are protected the industry cannot achieve the required penetration. The policyholder protection acquires much more significance for IRDA as the rural population is either totally illiterate or financially illiterate. The role of the agent becomes crucial in educating the rural policyholders about the features of the product and the consequences of taking certain protection and not taking certain protections from the insurance. Further, the agents are supposed to educate the policyholders about the risks involved in complex products like ULIPs.
Based on the working population as per census 2001 data, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has reported that the approximate total number of insurable persons in the country is 57,03,35,944.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has informed that at present some of the insurance companies resort to online sale of insurance products through their websites/portals in addition to sale through the conventional distribution channels. However there is no proposal from any insurer for sale of their entire policies on online mode.
Insurance regulator IRDA on Thursday came out with guidelines (Given Below) allowing life insurance companies, which have been in business for over 10 years, to raise funds from the public through IPOs. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), however, will decide the size of the public issue, it said in a notification. As per the guidelines, promoters of the insurance companies will also be allowed to offload their stake in the company.
IRDA/CAD/ GDL/AGN/016/ 02/2011, dated 11-2- 2011 regarding ‘Guidelines for Individual Agents for Persistency of Life Insurance Policies’. In partial modification to Clause III (e) of the said guidelines, it is clarified that the requirement of Insurers to endorse the record referred to in the said clause is now dispensed with. It may, however be noted that maintenance of records of policies sold and their persistency on a year to year basis needs to be complied by all agents and life insurers as stipulated. Circular no. IRDA/Life/CIR/AGN/257/11/2011, Date 25-11-2011
The Authority proposes to issue the Regulations on Bancassurance Agents to be called as IRDA (Licensing of Bancassurance Agents) Regulations, 2011. Accordingly, the Authority has prepared the Draft Regulations for the same. In this regard, comments/suggestions of all stake holders on the Exposure Draft are invited.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority has introduced a mobile application that enables one to compare insurance products and premium rates. The application currently lets users of mobile phones/devices with internet connectivity check and compare features of Unit Linked Insurance Policies (ULIPs) introduced on or after 1st September, 2010.
1. Web aggregator shall display the particulars of validity of approval obtained from the Authority on its web site. 2. Web aggregator shall state clearly and unequivocally that insurance is the subject matter of solicitation. 3. At no point of time of its functioning, a web aggregator shall have net worth below rupees ten lakhs. 4. At no point of time of its functioning, a web aggregator shall have referral arrangement with any Insurer or act as an insurance broker, corporate agent, microinsurance agent, TPA, Surveyor or a loss assessor.
