Corporate Law : IRDAI's Bima Vahak initiative aims to expand insurance reach in rural areas. It introduces a women-centric distribution channel fo...
Corporate Law : Overview of IRDAI's 2024 Corporate Governance Regulations for Insurers, covering board composition, committee structures, KMP appo...
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...
Corporate Law : IRDAI approved in-principle drafting and publication of new and amended regulations following the Sabka Bima, Sabki Raksha (Amendm...
Corporate Law : IRDAI approved drafting regulations for implementing a Risk Based Capital framework to strengthen solvency assessment and align In...
Corporate Law : IRDAI formed a sub-committee to review private health insurance and improve policyholder experience. The initiative focuses on exp...
Corporate Law : The issue concerns identification of systemically important insurers. The regulator retained the same entities, emphasizing their ...
Corporate Law : IRDAI directs insurers to follow anti-dark pattern guidelines and submit compliance reports. The move strengthens consumer protect...
Company Law : Vinay Jaidka Vs Chief Secretary (Delhi High Court) Abhishek Nanda, ld. Counsel who appears for the Insurance Regulatory and Develo...
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...
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 regulator held that agreements lacking clear fee provisions undermined contractual clarity and regulatory compliance. A penalt...
Corporate Law : IRDAI has directed insurers to disclose performance-linked remuneration details of Key Management Persons on their websites. The c...
Corporate Law : The case involved a broker implementing substantial shareholding changes without obtaining IRDAI's prior approval as required by r...
Corporate Law : The Authority found that core survey functions were carried out by unlicensed personnel. It held that such outsourcing violated re...
Corporate Law : The regulator cancelled a surveyor’s licence after finding false records, mismatched filings, and inaccurate disclosures. The ru...
Concerned about the fast pace of regulatory changes being brought into the sector, the life insurance industry has approached sector regulator IRDA to go slow in its approach, sources said.In turn, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority.
The government today said that the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) would soon come up with draft guidelines for health insurance portability, which would allow policy holders to switch to another insurer because of poor service
Tata AIG Life Insurance has been penalised Rs 5 lakh by the insurance regulator for failing to adhere to guidelines relating to management expenses. In a statement issued on Thursday, Irda said management expenses of the life insurer for 2008-09 was
CIRCULAR NO. IRDA/ACT/CIR/VIP/187/11/2010, DATED 23-11-2010 The structure of insurance policies evolves over time to provide policy holders, a stream of long term benefits. Generally these changes are in response to changes in the overall financial sector as also to be in line with current consumer expectations. Over the past decade, non-linked life insurance products have […]
Insurance regulator IRDA on Tuesday said that all universal life products, a new kind of insurance which entered India recently and gives greater flexibility to customers, will not have any unit-linked component in them. IRDA also said that from now, all such products will be named variable insurance products (VIPs) and have a lock-in period […]
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Executive Programme in Insurance and Risk Management (EPIRM), Mr Hari Narayan said, “if there is an enhancement of FDI, there perhaps will be greater activity in the IPO space. Some companies will start completi
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) will soon issue guidelines for listing of insurance companies and portability of motor and health insurance policies between companies, Chairman Hari Narayan has said. On listing of non-life i
Section 40A of the Insurance Act, 1938 (‘the Act’) lays down the permissible limits for payment of commission or remuneration, in any form, in respect to any policy of life insurance issued in India by an insurer and effected through an insurance agent, in various lines/segments of life insurance business. The proviso to the said section permits life insurers, in the first ten years of business, to pay forty per cent of the first year’s premium payable on the policy, towards commission.
Insurance regulator IRDA today gave a clean chit to Life Insurance Corporation of India, the largest insurance company in India, in the case of alleged violation of rules pertaining to transfer of profits among its various schemes.
Insurance: Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Guidelines CIRCULAR NO. IRDA/F&I/CIR/AML/180/11/2010, DATED 12-11-2010 The Authority has reviewed the AML/CFT guidelines to align certain stipulations with that of the 40+9 Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FTAF). Accordingly, the following additional stipulations/clarifications are issued for compliance. Sl. No. Clause Ref. in Master Circular 2010 on AML/CFT […]
