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....
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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....
‘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.
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
An Irdai study shows increasing awareness of term insurance but home insurance remains largely unknown.
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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...
“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%....