Bike insurance? Car insurance? Health insurance? Roopam Asthana answers them all.
hree big players -- ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and Apollo Munich -- have launched policies in tie-ups with spas, gymnasiums, yoga institutes, diagnostic centres and health food retailers to offer discounts to customers on these services and products.
As women become independent, they face the same financial risks as men do. To cut them down, insurance is necessary.
IRDA's condition that treatment under AYUSH has to be at a government hospital or an institute recognised by the government makes insurance cover difficult.
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The East District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum made this recommendation while ordering Apollo Munich Health Insurance Co Ltd to pay over Rs 180,000 to a policy holder for not reimbursing his treatment expenses and illegally cancelling his insurance cover after he submitted his claim.
The BJP may win more seats in the February 5 assembly election, but not enough to trump AAP, notes Ramesh Menon.
'Expect India to keep doing well irrespective of geopolitics.'
Corporate India has paid 50 per cent (around Rs 600 crore) more on group health insurance this year. The premium paid on this account last year was Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion).
While Star Health's policy for children is a step forward, it has a low sum insured and comes as a group cover.
>You can buy a life insurance policy for someone else only if you have an insurable interest or expect financial loss from that person's death, points out Tarun Chugh, MD and CEO, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, answering insurance questions.
With mobile data getting cheaper, insurers are introducing technologies that eases buying and lodging claims.
Banks and insurers are beginning to reward customers who show exemplary conduct with lower prices and penalise those who behave poorly by imposing higher costs.
Banks are increasingly offering a range of tailor-made financial products; however, there are some downsides.
With the Budget just round the corner, insurance companies have suggested a separate limit for deductions under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, for long-term saving instruments like life insurance and exempt exempt exempt (EEE) treatment on the maturity proceeds of products.
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Group policies are more suitable for diabetics; these are negotiable & flexible.
With increasing cases of lifestyle diseases, opting for a critical illness health insurance policy makes sense.
Under the guidelines, life and non-life insurance companies can come together to offer this health-plus-life cover. Health insurance under this scheme will provide sickness benefits, medical, surgical or hospital expenses benefits, whether in-patient or out-patient, on an indemnity or reimbursement basis and the life insurer will offer a pure term product.
Sanjib Jha, CEO, Coverfox Insurance Broking, answers your health insurance related queries.
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Effective 01 October 2011, health insurance has become portable and you are now free to move to another provider and carry along all the credits gained for having been loyal.
Mediclaim, a health insurance brand offered by general insurance companies, is a reimbursement plan whereas critical illness insurance is a benefit plan that both life and non-life insurance companies offer.
With a dependable insurance policy, you can easily guard against any unexpected financial burden in the event of sudden illness or injury.
Sanjib Jha, CEO, Coverfox Insurance Broking, answers your health and auto insurance related queries.
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.
These findings are part of a unique survey titled "Health Matters" Index 2006, conducted by Tata AIG Life Insurance Company Ltd (Tata AIG Life).
The Chennai-based Star Health and Allied Insurance Co, the country's first stand-alone health insurance company, plans to expand its product basket by launching at least five new products in the next 3-4 months.
Cost of health care is rising at a fast clip.
If you plan it out, instead of rushing it in the last moment, you will realise how much you have saved and the difference it makes to your personal wealth.
The move comes amid a border row over Belagavi between Karnataka and Maharashtra which flares up from time to time.
There is discrimination against women in insurance cover. As a flood of insurance companies tap the capital markets with public issues, there is however, hardly any reference to this asymmetry. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports
People in their quest to save tax usually end up buying a lot of unwanted insurance products.
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The plan offers comprehensive hospitalisation benefits for the whole family of the principal insured. A unique feature of this plan is that it also offers to cover the parents in-law of the principal insured besides spouse, minor children and parents
The insurance regulator wants the removal of the minimum entry capital requirement of Rs 100 crore for setting up an insurance business in a bid to facilitate the entry of multiple players such as standalone micro insurers and niche players. Debasish Panda, chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai), said it should be left to the regulator instead to decide what should be the entry fee for interested players, depending on the size of the business and operations. According to the current norms, insurers are required to have a minimum paid-up capital of Rs 100 crore.
The judgment from a five-judge Constitution bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, offers clarity on licensing regulations and is expected to prevent insurance companies from rejecting claims based on the type of licence of drivers involved in accidents.
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