Insurance companies may bring new products without prior permission of IRDAI

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) vide circular dated June 10, 2022, permitted life insurance companies to introduce products without taking prior permission (use-and-file) from IRDAI. The regulator had extended the same relaxation of the ‘use-and-file’ procedure to health and general insurance companies vide a circular dated 01.06.2022. Thus, the insurance companies…

How your health insurance claim can be much lower than the actual hospital bill?

Of-late, complaints against health insurance companies have gone up largely on account of dissatisfaction with claim settlement. This is mostly because customers are unaware of common features in health insurance policies that relates to sub-limits. Normally, almost all health insurance policies have specific cap called sub-limits to the sum insured under which the insurer will…

Things to know before buying life and non-life insurance policies

(This post explains various types of insurance policies available in the market like Life Insurance policies, Health insurance policies, Property Insurance policies including plant and machinery, boiler, shipping insurance, stock of goods, etc., and conditions and clauses to be verified by the buyers before buying them). For many average insurance policy buyers verifying conditions and…