Insurance regulator IRDA has urged the insurance companies to explore the possibility of including daycare treatment in hospitals under health policies.

Bharti Axa general insurance company is proposing to enter travel insurance segment and has sought approval from the Insurance Regulator and Development Authority (Irda) for launching travel insurance product.

HDFC Life, has launched its first international operations with the opening of its representative office in Dubai.

Plans to set up a third party administrator (TPA) for managing health insurance claims by the four public sector insurance players appear to have hit a road block with the companies unable to locate a strategic partner.

IndiaFirst Life Insurance have launched ‘Autolife’ – a simple process of getting life insurance cover instantly at an affordable cost.

LIC’s Jeevan Ankur is a conventional with profits plan, specially designed to meet the educational and other needs of childrens. For parent of a

National Insurance Academy has announced the results for Scale 1-5 exams. NIA has published the results of the exam on the website. You can view the results at the following link (View the results)

Carnival Corp.’s sunken cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, was insured by companies including Assicurazioni Generali SpA (G), RSA Insurance Group Plc (RSA) and XL Group Plc (XL), said three people with knowledge of the policies.

The Gandhi Maidan police in Patna on 15th January arrested two insurance agents, Vikas Kumar Singh and Dilip Kumar Singh, from Kankerbagh for allegedly depositing their client's money in a private bank account.

Tata AIG’s innovative E-Commerce website has been bestowed many awards including the recently announced Celent Model Insurer Award 2012 for CRM under Service and Travel Insurance under marketing.

Swiss Re's Board of Directors appoints Michel M. Liès, currently Chairman Global Partnerships at Swiss Re, as new Group Chief Executive Officer as of 1 February 2012. Michel M. Liès succeeds Stefan Lippe.

According to Swiss Re’s latest expertise publication “Lessons from recent major earthquakes”, several big Earthquakes resulted in a devastating number of fatalities and injuries and have caused widespread property damage over the past two years.

IRDA has imposed a fine of Rs. 2 lac on Metlife India Insurance for delay in issue of policy and violation of IRDA Guidelines.

IRDA has issued STANDARD INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDELINES APPLICABLE FOR APPROVAL/RENEWAL OF AGENTS TRAINING INSTITUTES vide Ref: IRDA/AGTS/CIR/GLD/269/12/2011 dated 7th December 2011.

The Insurance Times Group is please to launch its blog http://www.latestinsurance.blogspot.com The blog will be an interactive platform to discuss various issues on insurance.

IRDA has booked Future Generali Life Insurance for violating regulations and imposed a fine of Rs.20 lakhs. IRDA carried out a surprise inspection at the Hyderabad Branch Office of the captioned Insurer to investigate business by an unlicensed entity - M/s. Insurance For You (Future).

The Insurance Times Group is pleased to launch a EBook on Health Insurance Statistics 2012 covering statistics on health insurance sector in India since 2003 till 2011.

The world’s vulnerability to further economic shocks and social upheaval risk undermining the progress that globalization has brought, warns the World Economic Forum in its Global Risks 2012 report, the seventh edition, published recently.

Apollo Munich Health Insurance, a leading stand-alone health insurance company, today launched ‘Optima RESTORE’, an ‘Unbelievable’ health insurance product.

5th India Rendezvous is being organised in Mumbai  on the theme: "Insurers & Reinsurers Partnering to Rise to Market Needs”. The conference would be organised by Asia Insurance Review on 18 - 20 Jan 2012, Trident Hotel, Nariman Point, Mumbai, India.