Insurance

The companies are looking at re-filing their best-selling products in the first round.

Two general insurance and one top life insurance companies are preparing for IPO.

Life insurance business recorded an increase of 1.4 percent in premium for first two months of the current fiscal

Depositories have almost finished their data collection

The company has received its final approval from IRDA.

The regulator has directed all insurers to be ready to re-file their existing products according to its new product design guidelines. All products filed under earlier norms will have to be withdrawn by 1st October.

Regulator puts in place new guidelines for servicing orphan policies.

According to the draft norms suggested by IRDA, only agents with 5 years’ experience in the life insurance industry will be able to form a super agency.

The regulator had earlier suggested that the super agency model might help curb exit of agents and improve insurance penetration. But can such a model really take off? Cafemutual finds out.

Sources say that the Italian insurer is still negotiating the valuations for the proposed deal with Reliance.

In 2010-11, agents generated Rs 65,665 crore as new business premium.

IRDA proposes sweeping changes in health insurance.

The Insurer has to pay Rs 118 lakh fine within 15 days.

The regulator wants to take steps to control the exodus of agents from the industry.

Insurer has launched a programme featuring the success stories of six successful insurance agents from Maharashtra.