Life-insurance companies in February reported an 11.6 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) drop in new business premium (NBP) owing to relatively weak performance by state-owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), which reported a 22 per cent drop in premium.
The data from the Life Insurance Council shows the NBP of life-insurance companies was ₹29,985.5 crore in February as against ₹33,913.18 crore in the same month last year.