Online health Insurance becoming more popular
Health insurance continues to be mostly a product that is bought offline. But according to a study, younger policyholders (age group of 25-44 years) and those in metros are more likely to buy online....
Category: Health Insurance
Government allocates Rs 10,000 crore for ‘Modicare’ health insurance
‘Modicare’, announced in February, would provide 10 crore families, or about 50 crore poor people, with health cover of 500,000 rupees per year for treatment of serious ailments.
High Court pushes for clean health insurance
Health insurers will now have to say clearly what they mean by ‘genetic disorders’, and Irdai will need to re-look the exclusionary clauses in insurance contracts
Perceptions of insurance are improving
An Irdai study shows increasing awareness of term insurance but home insurance remains largely unknown.
Insurance cover for HIV/AIDS patients a distant dream, expensive despite Bill
Insurance coverage for HIV/AIDS remains a distant dream despite the Bill that makes it mandatory for the central and state governments to provide treatment to HIV-positive people and penalise discrimination. Insurers consider them risky candidates...
Better days ahead for Indian general insurance companies
Lloyd‘s of London is the most revered name in global insurance. It doesn’t like controls like any dyed in the wool financial services giant from the capitalist world. But when it comes to India,...
Is the Insurance farther from current Ecommerce or IoT scenario?
We know how everything has changed which seems to be in a short time but that has been an acute effect of small small changes over vast periods. I was scrolling through my outlook...
Asian insurance markets face headwinds
Asia might still be the fastest-growing insurance market in the world, but substantial challenges remain. Across the entire region, overall insurance premiums grew in real terms by 7.8% for life products and 9.2% for...
Top-up your health plan
As per HDFC ERGO, medical treatment costs are increasing at nearly 20 per cent every year that raises the need to increase the health cover to cope up with rising medical costs. This is...
2016 expected to be exciting year for General Insurance: MS Sreedhar, Royal Sundaram
“2015 was an eventful year for the Indian general insurance industry in many ways. The much awaited FDI bill was passed, increasing the cap on investment by the foreign partner to 49% from 25%....
