Category: Insurance

Every policyholder should scrutinise the exclusions of their life insurance policy The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus or COVID-19 a pandemic. The

The move is aimed at helping policyholders as the insured would pay less while getting better coverage. Health insurers cannot include the cost of pharmacy,

All the claims reported under COVID-19 shall be thoroughly reviewed by the clais review committee before repudiating the claims. With the spike in confirmed Coronavirus

NEW DELHI: Regulator Irdai on Wednesday asked insurers to expeditiously settle hospitalisation claims related to coronavirus disease under health policies. It also instructed insurance companies

As far as health insurance is concerned, industry experts say, it has always been dominated by non-life insurers. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority’s (Irdai’s)

Human suffering comes in many forms, as a result of chance, folly or nature’s quirks. Rare diseases are prime examples of the last category, arising

The package of measures announced by the government to revamp its flagship crop insurance scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), may do more

The main purpose of buying a life insurance policy is to make sure that after your death, your nominee or legal heir gets the sum

Farming is hard. Helping farmers would appear to be harder, still. Crop insurance schemes fail to help farmers, and are being revamped. Directors of the

Farming is hard. Helping farmers would appear to be harder, still. Crop insurance schemes fail to help farmers, and are being revamped. Directors of the

By Ajit Menon The most important question to address while creating a financial plan is that if something untoward was to happen to an earning

The insurance regulator has amended the definition of pre-existing diseases, a move which could lead to a reduction in the claim rejection rates in health

With rising medical expenses, having a health insurance plan has become quite necessary. Primarily, a person can buy two types of health insurance plans –

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari asks insurance firms to support roll-out of the scheme The Road Transport Ministry is close to finalising a cashless treatment scheme

With the healthcare expenses sky-rocketing, it goes without saying that health insurance is the need of the hour.  The medical inflation rate in the country

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), on January 2, issued a circular mandating health and general insurance companies to offer a standardised