Insurance News

The government on Tuesday introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha to amend the Motor Vehicles Act.It proposes to increase the penalties for traffic rule

The boards of HDFC Life Insurance Co. Ltd and Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd on Monday signed off on their merger, which will create India’s larg

The boards of HDFC Life and Max Life Insurance are set to approve a new scheme of arrangement on Monday (today) after the insurance regulator told

Enthused by the open architecture system announced by insurance regulator IRDAI, Apollo Munich Health Insurance said it is eyeing a couple of more

The Narendra Modi government is "conscious" of the need to provide universal health coverage and steps are being taken to increase the nu

Stating that farmers are taking up crop insurance in a big way after two drought years, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today said 30% more

Irdai today came out with guidelines for acquisition of shares in listed insurance companies under which the acquirer will be r

As many as 22 states, barring Bihar and Punjab, have introduced the new crop insurance scheme and the Centre has extended the l

Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited (FGII), a joint venture between Future Group - the game changers in Retail Trade in India and

The insurance regulator has exempted listed insurance companies promoted by entities that are regulated by the Reserve Bank of India, Securities an

Your insurance policies- life, health and motor will begin to cost more from April 2017 as you would end up paying up to 300 basis points more in t

Apollo Munich Health Insurance today said it plans to infuse Rs. 50 Crore capital during the last quarter of the current fiscal to expand business.

Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurancehas launched a new linked insurance product 'iNVESTSHIELD' that aims to protect and mee

Chief minister Harish Rawat on Monday launched the second phase of the Mukhyamantri Swasthya Beema Yojna (MSBY) which aims to cover 12.5 lakh peopl

IRDAI has directed banking and financial institutions, who act as bancassurance agents for insurance companies, not to forcibly sell policies to th

In the first issuance by general insurance company, ICICI Lombard has raised Rs. 485 Crore through private placement of non-convertible debentures

HDFC Standard Life Insurance on Sunday said the due diligence process is almost completed  for proposed creation of largest private sector lif

The State government Saturday directed crop insurance companies in the state to extend their deadlines to facilitate farmers to enroll themselves i

Unclaimed amount of policyholders with insurancecompanies (both life and non-life) has reached around Rs 11,668 Crore as on March 31, 2016,&nb

Deputy chief minister and health minister Francis D'Souza, told the Goa legislative assembly on Friday that the government has agreed in princi

India's largest insurer Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has signed an agreement with private sector lenderAxis Bank&nb

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is set to launch the facility of travel insurance for passengers wh

The insurance regulator has banned life insurers from offering indemnity-based health products, which constitute 90% of the health insurance market

General Insurance companies in India continue to post positive growth at 20.3% (year-on-year) in gross direct premium in June. Data from General In

There will be more innovation in health insurance with companies floating niche policies as new regulations allow "pilot policies" that c

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) in its final norms on health regulations has said insurers can change the prici

Tata AIG General Insurance has launched an integrated travel product, for all Axis Bank customers through the bank’s

You can soon buy a health cover for your domestic help and her family for just Rs 2,400 a year as the labour ministry is set to notify a new social

Monsoon brings along with it a host of high risk diseases such as jaundice, food poisoning, dysentery, typhoid, flu, cholera, cough and cold and po

HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company and Shamrao Vithal Co-operative (SVC) Bank today announced their bancassurance agency partnership to provide ra