With natural and man-made calamities posing a risk to your home, it makes sense to buy home insurance
A Parliamentary Committee on Wednesday recommended a composite foreign investment cap of 49 per cent in the insurance sector and supported a government Bill to amend the Act.
Join us for an online chat with health insurance expert Anil Rego between 2 pm and 3 pm on Thursday, February 15.
Increase of 10% to 12% likely in a bid to improve citizens' mood after demonetisation.
A cancer dedicated policy will provide a sum assured of Rs 20-25 lakh for a 30 year old for mere sum of Rs 4,500-6,000 per year (on an average) for a term of 35-40 years, which is even lesser than the cost of a weekend road trip with your loved ones
President Droupadi Murmu addressed both Houses of Parliament, highlighting the government's achievements in various sectors, including economic growth, social welfare, and infrastructure development. She emphasized the government's efforts to lift the economy out of "policy paralysis" and create a more inclusive society. Murmu also acknowledged the challenges posed by digital fraud and cybercrime and stressed the need for a social infrastructure revolution. The President's speech is considered a policy statement, outlining the government's vision and roadmap for the future.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority on Monday mooted ways to allow consumers to switch over from one company to another for Mediclaim policies and prevent rejection of claim by insurers.
'Children should include their parents in the group health insurance cover provided by the employer at the earliest.' 'However, the elderly should not depend on it alone and should also buy a personal health cover,' suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Brokerages expect a further slowdown in Indian firms' revenue and earnings growth in Q4FY25, following low single-digit growth in the preceding three quarters, as factors like weak consumer demand and credit growth linger on.
'The intensity and frequency of heatwaves will be much higher than in previous years over Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.'
Yashish Dahiya, CEO and co-founder Policybazaar.com, tells readers what steps they can take if an insurance agent cheats them.
There are four important reasons why you must also buy personal mediclaim over group mediclaim, says Dhruv Sarin
It will allow more transparency in policies and flexibility in premium payment, besides improving processing of claims.
Experts have been talking about the perils of being uninsured or underinsured.
Pulling up insurers for lack of consistency in pricing critical illness products, the insurance regulator IRDA has directed insurance companies to stick to one standard data and eventually build a database of incidence of diseases and death rates.
The GST to be implemented from April 1, 2016, will increase the premiums.
'Pay Rs. 30 and insure free treatment up to Rs. 30,000.' That is the latest slogan of the Manmohan Singh government, which has provided such a unique insurance cover to those below the poverty line (BPL) for the first time in the history of the country.
'Choose an FD tenure that provides a balance between returns and the horizon for which you can invest.'
Most policies have a 30-90 days waiting period, during which you will not be able to claim any hospitalisation expense, except in case of accidents.
Harris will appoint hundreds of extreme far-left judges to 'forcibly impose crazy San Francisco liberal values' on Americans nationwide, he alleged, invoking the spectre of San Francisco -- a liberal city long used as shorthand by conservatives eager to denigrate Democrats.
While the benefits offered by the new-generation products are alluring, choose a plan that offers features you may actually need in the future
The regulator has put a cap on the business a bank can get from a single insurer.
The ruling coalition, which survived the confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday, is aiming to cover 60 million households (or about 300 million people) across the country in the next five years under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, which it announced last year. Already, 300-odd patients insured under the scheme have availed of this facility in various listed hospitals in Delhi and Haryana.
'It is a good match for those aged 25-30, who have just started working and need a basic product.'
This solution will help improve access to health benefits for 24,000 members on its L.A. Care Covered plan offered through the Covered California health insurance marketplace, Infosys said in a statement.
Roopam Asthana, CEO and whole-time director, Liberty General Insurance Ltd, answers your queries about HEALTH insurance and AUTO insurance.
'It is important to ensure that the person driving the car has a valid driving licence, is in a stable mental condition and is not under any heavy medication or influence of alcohol,' says K G Krishnamoorthy Rao, MD and CEO, Future Generali India Insurance.
The pandemic should force you to take a hard look at the downside risks that could jeopardise your finances.
Ask rediffGURU and PF expert Milind Vadjikar your insurance, stocks, mutual fund and personal finance-related questions.
General, life insurers with 8 & 10 yrs in biz, respectively, may have to list
The launch coincides with the birthday of Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Information Technology (IT) major Infosys escalated the legal tussle with Cognizant by filing a countersuit in a US court, accusing the Nasdaq-listed firm and its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ravi Kumar of anticompetitive practices by maintaining its monopoly. Infosys has also alleged that Kumar misused sensitive information that slowed the launch of the company's health care platform Helix.
Sanjib Jha, CEO, Coverfox Insurance Broking, answers your health insurance related queries.
After the Chennai floods, insurance companies had got 50,000 claims worth Rs 4,800 crore.
Govt to harness Delhi's private hospitals to cover 3 lakh Delhiites falling under the poverty line.
After the Delhi high court's ruling, blanket exclusion of genetic disorders from coverage is likely to become a thing of the past.
Workplaces of 2025 will be defined by a deep focus on people-first values, inclusivity, and sustainable growth, foresees Sonica Aron, founder of Marching Sheep.
India has a huge untapped population which doesn't have facilities for financial aid and insurance, and it is perhaps plausible to look at the option of having niche players catering to smaller sectors akin to non-banks and microfinance institutions in lending, said Rakesh Joshi, member (Finance & Investment), Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai). Speaking at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit, Joshi said, "Today, most of our insurance companies operate at a national level. There is arguably a case for having differentiated operations, which cater to niche sectors the same way we have non-banking financial companies (NBFC) and microfinance institutions in lending." "The capital requirement for niche players may not be as large as those having national ambitions. "Enabling these niche players, which require lower capital, will enhance the penetration in areas which hitherto had not seen traction from large players," he said.
Jio Financial Services Limited, the demerged financial services unit of Reliance Industries, will be excluded from various indices of NSE, including the benchmark Nifty 50, from September 7. Shares of Jio Financial got listed on the stock exchanges on August 21, after its spin-off from parent Reliance Industries. In accordance with the index methodology, as JIOFIN has not hit price band on two consecutive trading days on September 4 and 5 at NSE, the Index Maintenance Sub Committee (Equity) of NSE Indices Ltd has decided to exclude JIOFIN from various indices effective from September 7, 2023 (close of September 6, 2023), as per a statement by NSE Indices Ltd on Tuesday.
The change in policy for the three companies, from listing to merger, shows the level of discomfort within the government about their ability to take on the expanded load for insurance coverage with their current financial strength, including the massive premium and claim settlement cover under the proposed universal health coverage plan announced in Budget 2018.
