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Reference is also invited to proviso 5.2 read in conjunction with Sl No. 2 Column 4 of Annexure – 1 of the within referred guidelines. With regard to the Registration Fee collected under RSBY in addition to the entities referred therein,
Though the Indian insurance industry has been in existence for over 125 years, the pace of standardization and integration has picked up speed with the liberalization of the sector. The most time and cost-consuming activities are concentrated in back office functions and administrative tasks. These business functions are the highest priority for automation and have the potential to deliver the fastest and greatest return on investment. While e-business greatly reduces these difficulties and removes all error-prone and slow administrative tasks, the challenge is ensuring that the sector is able to conduct business electronically.
Reference is invited to the captioned circular issued by the Authority. The Authority is in receipt of representations from the Industry seeking revisiting of certain provisions of the said circular. Accordingly, keeping in view the objective of ensuring higher levels of persistency of life insurance policies as also conserving the agency force, the Authority issues the following modifications.
In partial modification of Clause (1) of the captioned circular the term ‘relative’ is re defined as “the term ‘relative’ shall include spouse, dependent children or dependent step children, whether residing with the employee or not”. Further it is clarified that this clause is applicable only in respect of agents who are licensed or whose agency is transferred to another insurer on or after 01st July, 2011.
With a view to enhancing policyholders’ services for health insurance, the IRDA had conceptualized the Third Party Administrator (TPA), as an intermediary. The IRDA thought it appropriate to define such an intermediary and permit them to operate as an insurance intermediary on a strength of a license to operate issued by the IRDA. The TPAs play an important role in delivering health insurance in a seamless manner to a policyholder. IRDA/NL/CIR/HLTH/207/09/2011 Date:06-09-2011
IRDA, after inviting comments and concerns of Insurers and after a careful consideration of all the submissions made, hereby darify that: Investment In Venture Funds would continue to be categorized under “Other Investments’ as per IRDA (Investment) (4th Amendment) Regulations, 2008 Insurers may Invest in any Venture Fund registered under SERI Regulations which include Venture Funds investing in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises also No investment shall be made in a Venture Fund which is under the Promoter Group of the insurer
Date- 25.08.2011 – The Authority after notification of IRDA (Investment) (4th Amendment) Regulations, 2008 and after mandating the minimum requirements in respect of Investment Risk Management Systems & Process and Internal / Concurrent Audit Scope (issued through Technical Guides through the ICAI) took the feedback from the Working Group members on (1) Operational Issues (2) Systems issues (3) Audit related issues.
Ref:IRDA/ F&A/CIR/SOLP/195/08/2011 – The Circular clarified the position related to the retrocession of premium received from the TP Pool and excluded it from the calculation for the RSM, the position related to treatment of share of claim retro ceded from the pool remained unclear. The interpretation of the above Circular is taken differently by different companies. As a result, the insurers are following different approach in calculation of Solvency Margin in respect of Motor TP Pool.
IRDA (Protection of Policyholders’ Interests) Regulations, 2002 – Point of sale issues, free look provision, time-limits for underwriting and servicing matters including claims etc.
Guidelines on NAV Process -Note: In supersession of earlier provisions issued vide Circular No. 24/IRDA/ACTL/2009-10, Dt. 5th Aug, 2009 with respect to calculation of NAV, the NAV shall, henceforth, be computed without appropriation/expropriation price as required under the said Circular under Unit Pricing Methodology. The same shall be applicable for all existing policies effective from the date immediately following the date of issue of this Circular.
