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History
1688 Lloyds Coffee House 1818 Oriental Life Insurance Company 1850 Triton Insurance Company 1870 Bombay Mutual Life Insurance Corporation 1st Indian Life Insurance Company 1907 Indian Mercantile Insurance Ltd. 1938 Insurance Act 1956 Formation of LIC
History
1972 Nationalization of General Insurance 1993 Malhotra Committee Set up 1999 IRDA Act 2000 Re-entry of Private Sector Today approx. 25 companies in each segment
IRDA Mission
Protect the interest of and secure fair treatment to policyholders; Speedy and orderly growth of the insurance industry for the benefit of the common man; Provide long term funds for accelerating growth of the economy; To set, promote, monitor and enforce high standards of integrity, financial soundness, fair dealing and competence of those it regulates; Ensure speedy settlement of genuine claims, to prevent insurance frauds and other malpractices and put in place effective grievance redressal machinery; Promote fairness, transparency and orderly conduct in financial markets dealing with insurance and build a reliable management information system to enforce high standards of financial soundness amongst market players; To take action where such standards are inadequate or ineffectively enforced; Bring about optimum amount of self-regulation in day-to-day working of the industry.
Insurance Terms
Principle of utmost good faith Principle of Indemnity Subrogation Causa Proxima Insurable Interest Moral Hazard Underwriting Human Life Value Reinsurance
Disclaimer
Prepared for class room discussion only This is prepared based on various web and published sources www.irda.gov.in Bharti Pathak: Indian Financial System