A composite platform that could facilitate sales, servicing and settlement of claims across different insurance categories is being explored by insurance companies and industry regulator IRDAI. The p...

Three prisoners, including a murder accused, escaped from Durgapur sub-correctional home after apparently scaling the 30ft-high boundary wall on Sunday. The escape came to light when jail authorities...

Couples who intend to take the surrogacy route to become parents will have to buy a general health insurance coverage in favour of a surrogate mother for a period of 36 months, according to the Surrog...

The clinical establishment commission on Monday asked Medica hospital to file an affidavit stating that it would offer discounts on medicines, consumables and pathological tests on the part of the bil...

Many cashless insurance claims of Covid patients are being rejected during the third wave, hospitals and insurance companies said. In the first two waves, too, there were many rejections but this tim...

Insurance regulator Irdai on Monday said health insurance policies that cover Covid treatment costs will also cover expenses for treating the Omicron variant. “All health insurance policies iss...

Covid-19’s second wave put a massive strain on India’s medical infrastructure. With just 5 hospital beds and 8.6 doctors for every 10,000 people, India has one of the least robust medical ...

The much-touted Sikkim Krantikari Morcha government’s universal health insurance scheme, Su-Swastha Yojana, which was to have formally rolled out from Friday, was suspended at the eleventh hour ...

Term life insurance policies may become costlier with reinsurance companies in favour of stricter guidelines on underwriting amid high mortality claims. According to industry sources, reinsurers have...

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