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Irdai asks insurers for customer-centricity, stricter grievance compliance
Thu, Nov 27, 2025     Source : Business Standard
Irdai has raised concerns over rising complaints, urging insurers to improve grievance redressal systems, standardise classification processes
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Irdai steps in to ease friction between insurers & hospitals: Payments, package rates & cashless processes
Thu, Nov 27, 2025     Source : Economic Times
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) has initiated consultations with industry bodies to ease the growing friction between health insurers and hospitals over claim payments, ...
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Govt, industry need to act on new age risks: General Insurance CEOs
Wed, Nov 26, 2025     Source : Business Standard
Industry leaders emphasise the need for dynamic, data-focused models and protection for new infrastructure, like EV charging stations
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After GST rationalisation, innovation will boost life insurance: CEOs
Wed, Nov 26, 2025     Source : Business Standard
Insurance leaders view the GST waiver as an inflexion point, detailing plans to boost customer value and make products the engine for growth
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Buy life insurance riders that align with your financial goals, risks
Tue, Nov 25, 2025     Source : Business Standard
Understand exclusions, waiting periods, survival period requirements, and claim triggers before purchase
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IRDAI chief appeals to pvt insurers’ innovative streak with examples of impactful govt schemes
Mon, Nov 24, 2025     Source : Financial Express
There is much to be learnt for the insurance sector, particularly by the private sector insurers, from endeavours like the Indian postal department’s Rural Postal Life Insurance- an endowment product, says...
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Health insurers see frauds in Rs 50,000 claim segment
Mon, Nov 24, 2025     Source : Economic Times
Health insurers are reporting a sharp rise in fraud in small and mid-value claims, especially those around Rs 50,000 and below and in the digestive ailments as these segments have lesser scrutiny and easie...
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FinMin renews merger proposal of state-owned general insurance companies
Mon, Nov 24, 2025     Source : Economic Times
The Finance Ministry is considering an earlier proposal to merge the three state-owned general insurance companies into a single entity, following their improved financial health, to achieve better efficie...
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Super top-ups in health insurance: Match deductible with base sum insured
Fri, Nov 21, 2025     Source : Business Standard
When base and super top-up are from different insurers, the second insurer may offer reimbursement, not cashless
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Can my insurer deny claim for not disclosing an illness that was fully resolved before taking the policy?
Fri, Nov 21, 2025     Source : Mint
To invoke non-disclosure, insurers must show the condition was active when the policy was bought and medically linked to the current ailment.
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Ayurvedic hospitalization: Why insurers push back—and how to win claims
Thu, Nov 20, 2025     Source : Mint
Ayurvedic treatment claims face colser scrutiny form insurers due to cost and necessity concerns.
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Insurers asked to not give misleading ads on claim settlement
Thu, Nov 20, 2025     Source : Economic Times
India's insurance regulator has asked general and standalone health insurers to stop using misleading claim-settlement figures in advertisements and to jointly develop a standard formula that all companies...
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Govt mulls restrictionson medical cover costs; stricter disclosurenorms on the table
Wed, Nov 19, 2025     Source : Economic Times
The government has begun discussions with the insurance regulator, industry executives and hospital groups on ways to rein in surging health insurance premiums, as rising medical costs and uneven claim set...
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Life insurers should simplify products, extend rural reach: Irdai's Swaminathan Iyer
Wed, Nov 19, 2025     Source : Economic Times
India's life insurance industry should simplify products and push deeper into rural markets if it wants to meet the country's ambition of achieving insurance for all by 2047, Irdai member (life) Swaminatha...
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Term insurance: Pick insurer with consistently high claim settlement ratio
Wed, Nov 19, 2025     Source : Business Standard
A strong persistency ratio signals customer trust, better service and fewer disputes, while a high claim settlement ratio shows how reliably an insurer honours claims-key checks before buying term cov
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