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The National Confederation of General Insurance Officers' Association urged the Finance Minister Jaswant Singh to explore the possibility of setting up a subsidiary health insurance company to manage the health portfolio.
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These losses increase insurance premiums for customers and reduce insurer margins on the other.
Insurance industry sources said one of the largest telecom service providers paid Rs 20 crore to insure its employees in 2009-10 against Rs 9 crore last year.
The corporate health policy ceases under following circumstances: The company winds up; you resign or you are terminated from the company; you retire from the services at the age of 60; the company decides to withdraw the health policy benefit to employees, i.e. there is no law that the company should provide health policy to employee; most corporate policies also have restrictive covers.
An employee whose financial future is 60-80 per cent dependent on a single company's growth trajectory has no genuine safety net.
Group policies usually cover all pre-existing diseases and, therefore, the claim process and the cashless process are much easier.
'Applying AI to change the lives of Indians and at population scale -- just like we did with DPI [digital public infrastructure] -- is really where it's going to go.'
Chennai-based Star Health and Allied Insurance has launched Cardiac Care, a unique policy that covers people with heart ailments.
It will help in reducing the turnaround time.
Insurers may be burning their fingers in urban health portfolios for some time now, but the government's rural healthcare initiatives, including its decision to provide free generic drugs to public hospitals, are set to offer fresh avenues of growth for them.
Almost 75 per cent of Indian, Asians and Arab expatriates living in the metropolis have no health insurance, a survey carried out in the city revealed.
Actor-politician Vijay's TVK party is likely to form the government, bringing focus to their election promises, including gold for marriage, financial assistance for women, and job creation.
WhatsApp on Wednesday said it expects to facilitate the purchase of "affordable sachet-sized" health insurance through its platform by the end of the year as part of its efforts to provide users in India with greater access to financial solutions. The Facebook-owned company noted that its 'Payments' feature is now available to users across the country (currently up to 20 million users) with support from banking partners - State Bank of India, HDFC, ICICI and Axis Bank.
Apollo DKV's Maxima and ICICI Lombard's Health Advantage Plus come at a fixed annual premium of Rs 13,000 and Rs 15,000, respectively. Unlike other medical insurance policies -- which require a minimum 24-hour hospitalisation -- the sum assured is linked to the age of the policyholder.
If you contract a disease a few years after buying a health cover, disclosure isn't mandatory. But if you want to increase the sum assured, premiums could go up.
TVK chief Vijay has released his manifesto for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, focusing on women's welfare, education, agriculture, and job creation.
The Union Cabinet's decision to raise the foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in the insurance sector to 100 per cent is unlikely to significantly boost foreign investment as distribution remains a critical factor, requiring overseas players to partner with Indian businesses, experts said.
Considering the rising dengue cases, the affordability and availability of such a plan makes it worth buying, says Harjot Singh Narula
The exemption of individual life and health insurance premiums from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) enables the insurance industry to make products affordable and attractive, said Ajay Seth, chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit 2025.
'We ourselves hadn't heard it initially. Many people called us. The entire village was overjoyed.'
Taxpayers must provide more details to support deduction and exemption claims.
When the rest of the country is going in circles seeking health insurance for the society's most vulnerable, these slum-dwellers are part of a health security fund to which each person contributes Rs 60 annually.
Irdai to allow 12 minor changes including expansion of critical illness and day care procedure lists, premium payment in instalments, change sum assured, etc.
In a bid to woo villagers to benefit from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the Orissa government on Tuesday decided to offer health insurance and a house under the Indira Awas Yojana to each labourer who completed 100 days work in a year, official sources said.
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Government said on Thursday it is working on a scheme to provide health insurance to the poor, besides offering life and disability cover to one earning member of each economically weaker family.
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The government has decided to extend health insurance cover to sections such as rickshaw pullers, rag pickers, mine workers, sanitation workers, and auto rickshaw and taxi drivers.
Recent years have been turbulent for the insurance industry due to direct and indirect tax reforms, regulatory overhaul and other external pressures. The events cumulatively slowed growth rate to single digits from the high teens seen earlier.
