A travel insurance plan that includes trip protection, medical expense coverage for COVID-19 and protection for baggage and personal effects typically costs 4% to 8% of the dollar value of the trip

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Lenient FDI regulations, listing of LIC, and privatisation of a government-owned general insurer should benefit the broader domestic insurance market as these entities hold dominant positions, says Moody's

Sensex, Nifty Highlights on Budget day, February 1: Almost all the sectors closed in green territory today, rising in the range of 3-6%, except for pharma index

Insurance penetration is calculated as percentage of insurance premium to GDP. The penetration in non-life segment, in fact, slipped to 0.94 per cent from 0.97 per cent in 2018. The life insurance segment recorded higher penetration at 2.82 per cent from 2.74 in 2018

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Newly listed insurance, mutual fund, pure play credit card and small finance banking players are charming Dalal Street

ILIPs were quite popular among customers as it promised guaranteed benefit (which lacked in ULIPs) and opportunity to earn market-linked returns (which lacked in traditional participating and non-participating plans)

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While insurers now see the physical and mental diseases from the same prism, the treatment of former is quite different from the latter

Digital health will improve care quality significantly since patient behaviour will improve as they are able to better access healthcare, stated the report. New healthcare models will evolve with analytics on aggregated and anonymised data

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People have realised that it is important to have a health insurance for unforeseen health-related situations like they are in today, Krishnan Ramachandran, MD & CEO of Max Bupa Health Insurance said in an interaction

If you already have a health plan with lower sum insured and upgrading it to the higher sum insured is not feasible, then additional cover with top-up plans will come handy

Agri firms find new opportunities in using AI to help farmers fight pests, keep soil healthy and even predicting prices of their produce

As per the study, 80 per cent of working Indians have experienced income loss and 92 per cent of them are bracing themselves to undergo further economic losses in the future

Lockdown in india latest updates: The task force, comprising of doctors from both private and government hospitals, will guide doctors who are treating COVID-19 patients and help them handle the issue better

The coronavirus pandemic has created the need for a 'Virus Insurance Pool' on the lines of terrorism and nuclear pools

If you are considering the same, you have another reason to act fast. The premium on term plan that has remained constant for the last five-six years is set to go north by up to 50 per cent

Countries around the world have allocated $12.3 trillion so far to fight the COVID-19 epidemic