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COVID Health Insurance Policies Will Also Cover Omicron Infection Treatment Costs: IRDAI

MAS Team 07 January 2022
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Insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has said health insurance policies that cover COVID treatment...

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IRDAI Must Be Allowed To Regulate Hospitals Too, says IRDAI Member

MAS Team 10 December 2021
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With increasing cost of healthcare, insurance sector regulator Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) should be allowed to...

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Non-smokers Get Cancer too, Gujarat Court Slams Insurer For Rejecting Claim Without Evidence

MAS Team 09 October 2021
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A consumer court from Gujarat has directed an insurance company to reimburse the amount of expenditure on medical treatment for lung cancer after the...

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Partial settlement of claims by insurer, inflated hospital bills for Covid push woman to file plea in HC

MAS Team 14 August 2021
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The Delhi High Court has sought responses of the Delhi government and the IRDA on a plea by a woman and her two minor children challenging an...

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LIC launches Arogya Rakshak health insurance plan

MAS Team 23 July 2021
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Life insurance giant LIC has launched a new health insurance plan called Arogya Rakshak. It is a benefit-based long-term plan that pays a lump-sum on...

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SBI General Launches Arogya Supreme Health Insurance

MAS Team 09 July 2021
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SBI General Insurance has launched a comprehensive health insurance plan ‘Arogya Supreme’.

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Insurers settled 15.39 lakh health and 48,000 life claims during second wave of Covid

MAS Team 25 June 2021
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India’s health and life insurance companies have settled 15.39 lakh medical claims exceeding an amount of Rs 15,000 crore and over 48,000 life...

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Home Treatment cover to be offered as add-on in Health Insurance

MAS Team 25 June 2021
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Insurance regulator IRDAI has allowed non-life insurers to offer

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General, Health Insurers erect barriers around 'Corona Kavach' as claims rise

MAS Team 04 June 2021
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India’s health insurers are silently pulling back from issuing short-term Covid-19 hospitalisation covers after thousands of crores of rupees...

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Over half of FY21’s Covid claims were filed in just 6 weeks in the current FY

MAS Team 22 May 2021
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Health insurance claims due to Covid reported since April 1, 2021 are 57% of the claims filed in the year ended March 2021, according to The Economic...

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Between financial years 2019-21, SEBI has come up with extensive changes to investor advisor regulations. On Sep 23, 2020, SEBI had issued new additional guidelines. This comes just two months after extensive changes announced in July 2020. Earlier, in December 2019 there was an ad hoc circular
 
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