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Insurance sector's premium income to double by FY34 to $450 bn: Report

The domestic insurance sector is on course to log in over 7 per cent annual growth over the next decade and the premium income is likely to double to around USD 450 billion by financial year 2033-34, an industry report said on Tuesday. The total premium income will more than double over the next decade (2024-34) from the present USD 224 billion, and insurance penetration will increase from 3.8 per cent currently to 4.5 per cent by FY34, Swiss Re Institute said in a report. The report further said over the next five years (2024-28), the total insurance premium income of domestic insurer are likely to grow 7.1 per cent annually in real terms, which is well above the global average growth of 2.4 per cent, 5.1 per cent in emerging markets and 1.7 per cent in advanced markets, the report said. The more than double of the global average growth of the domestic industry is on the back of a resilient domestic economy which will remain the fastest growing large GDP for the next five years, ..

Premiums of non-life insurance companies rise 14.74% YoY in Dec 2023

In terms of the market share, the public-sector general insurers stood at 31.76 per cent of the overall insurance industry in December 2023 as against 33.16 per cent in December 2022

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Trust, financial education crucial in achieving insurance for all by 2047

Irdai has committed itself to enabling "Insurance for All" by 2047, where every citizen has life, health, and property insurance cover

Insurance for all by 2047: Insurers call for MF-style ad blitz & a rethink

These discussions took place at the Life Insurance CEOs panel at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit

Insurance industry must embrace innovation, enhance capabilities: Irdai

The biggest challenge is to draft a regulation which can foresee, predict and provide guidance for payments, said Panda

Insurance industry faces hurdle in growth due to dearth of human capital

To counter the shortage of human capital, insurance firms are investing in employees by recruiting directly from campuses

General Insurance CEOs laud the switch to 'principle-based' regulation

We are the 15th largest general insurance market in the world, said Dasgupta

Premiums of non-life insurance companies rise 7.37% in November 2023

The near 17 per cent fall in the premium of National Insurance Company dragged the overall premium of public sector units

New India Assurance posts one-off loss of Rs 200 cr in Q2FY24 due to floods

The underwriting loss of the largest general insurer widened to Rs 2446.93 crore from Rs 1506.92 crore in Q2FY23

Premiums of general insurance companies rise 13.65% in October 2023

In terms of the market share, the public sector general insurers stood at 31.60 per cent of the overall insurance industry in October 2023, down from 33.01 per cent in October 2022

Bad air quality may breathe fresh life into health insurance business

Most of the metro cities in India are battling acute air pollution with the Air Quality Index (AQI) readings being around "poor", "moderate" and "severe" levels for most of them

There's distrust regarding claim settlements: PolicyBazaar's Yashish Dahiya

Ritesh Kumar of HDFC Ergo said, "At the core, health insurance needs to be affordable. It's a complex problem as we are a regulated industry but the provider (health service) is not regulated."

BS BFSI Summit: From Dasgupta to Kumar, meet general insurance experts

General Insurance CEOs Panel's theme on October 31: A paradigm shift from rule-based to principle-based regime

General insurance will grow by 18-24% in FY24: Kishore Kumar Poludasu

SBI General Insurance is a multi-product and multi-channel distribution network, said Poludasu

FinMin holds meet with heads of private general insurers on sector growth

Financial Services Secretary Vivek Joshi on Tuesday chaired a meeting with CEOs of private sector general insurance companies and discussed issues related to growth and development of the sector. Several critical issues having implications for the general insurance sector were discussed in detail, including awareness building through continuous interaction with states under State Insurance Plans to increase insurance penetration and coverage, the finance ministry said in a statement. Distribution channel rationalisation in opening up of the agency channel for the general insurance industry to increase insurance penetration and coordinating with state governments and the ministry of road transport and highways to initiate a special drive to ensure compliance of Motor Vehicles' Act were also discussed. Besides, collaboration with the ministry of health for increasing cashless facility and standardisation of treatment costs to boost growth of health insurance was also one of the ...

Overall general insurance premium slip by 4% to Rs 23,550.2 crore in August

Overall the group health segment registered 14 per cent increase to Rs 3760.1 crore from Rs 3296.4 crore in August 2022 due to better coverage

Reliance in talks with head hunters to find CEO for Jio's Insurance biz

Executives from Reliance have met several firms in recent weeks to help them map top talent across life, health and general insurance segments

Govt unlikely to infuse capital in PSU general insurers in FY24: Official

The four public sector general insurance companies are unlikely to get capital funding from the government in the current fiscal, a senior official said. He said one of the PSU non-life insurance companies is likely to give a dividend to the government in the current fiscal and they will be able to meet their solvency margins. The government last year provided Rs 5,000 crore capital to three insurers --National Insurance Company, Oriental Insurance Company and United India Insurance Company. The Budget 2023-24 has not provided for the capital infusion for insurance companies. "We do not think there is a need for capital infusion as of now. In fact, one of the general insurance companies may give a dividend this year," the official said. Currently, there are four general insurance companies in India -- New India Assurance, United India Insurance, Oriental Insurance and National Insurance Company. Of this, only New India Assurance is better placed than the rest. Insurance companies

General insurers' premium grew by18.3% in July to Rs 23,259 crore

Stand-alone health insurers reported a growth of 24 per cent to Rs 2,665 crore in July, and a 25.8 per cent rise to Rs 9,322 crore in the first four months