The world’s largest bicycle maker Hero Cycles in talks with insurance firms to provide health cover to its rural customers as part of its initiative to uplift the poor.
The company, which has tied up with Allahabad-based Sonata Finance for financing bicycle by providing loans of Rs 100 per week in rural areas, is considering [...]
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Life Insurance is a legal contract between you and a life insurance company with the purpose of providing an income to spouse, children or other beneficiaries in the event of your death.
There are two different categories of Life Insurance. Term Insurance is designed to provide death benefits for a specific time period. It is [...]
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Insurance regulator IRDA, which has won its turf war with market watchdog SEBI over regulation of ULIPs, is expected to tighten norms for these schemes, including commission charges, to make them attractive for investors.
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It?s a well-known fact that healthcare costs are on the rise and one has to provide for it.
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The battle with Sebi has forced IRDA to issue a host of new regulations which will change the way ULIPs are positioned.
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In the past two years, the state-owned insurer, United India staged a comeback of sorts.
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Future Generali rolls out pay as you go motor insurance policy in India.
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WASHINGTON — The number of doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government payment rates is setting a new high, just six months before millions of Baby Boomers begin enrolling in the government health care program. Recent surveys by national and state medical societies have found more doctors …
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From the Gulf oil spill and the floods in Arkansas and Oklahoma to the procession of hurricanes forecast for this year, the stage is set for major property damage in 2010.
Yet people looking to bolster their homeowners-insurance protection are …
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NEW YORK—The Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc. is praising the Department of Homeland Security’s adoption of final private-sector emergency preparedness standards. RIMS has been involved in discussions surrounding the Voluntary Private Sector Accreditation and Certification Preparedness Program since the framework was released in 2007. The three standards, which …
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Adults are guilty of the dangerous activity of texting while driving more often than teenagers, according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The Pew study also revealed that adults are substantially more likely to talk on a cell phone while driving than teenagers. According to …
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