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Insurance Company

Topic: InsurancePublished February 7, 2011

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Insurance companies in India have made a significant contribution to the economic growth of country and offered benefits to beneficiaries as well by providing various low and high investment plans.

Company helps you to protect yourself from contingencies or unexpected events by providing various categories policies like for travel, health, medical and mortgage purpose. The industry in India is thriving and customers are taking advantage of the fast-paced and competitive market in easy way.

The Basicsr
The word insurance refers to managing risk. You pay a certain amount of premium to the company against which the company provides you services like protecting your health, your car, your home or your family members. When the policy attains its maturity period or the insured person passes away, the company returns the claim amount to beneficiaries.

Insurers receive premiums from the policyholders and invest the money in risk free investments for increasing money to pay their interest. There are different types of beneficiaries such as life, health, auto and home or property beneficiaries.

An Overviewr
The Indian insurance industry has undergone a sea change over the last few years. Deregulations of the sector and massive globalization have contributed to the growth of the companies. Insurance sector in India comprises both private and government beneficiaries. Some foreign ones have also started operating in the market. FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in the sector has grown significantly when the sector was opened by the Government of India to private carriers in 1999.

On the basis of public and private companies Insurance industries in India can be broadly categorized into life and general insurance companies:

Life insurance companiesr
The following are names of the prominent life insurance in India:
Bajaj Allianz
Aviva
HDFC Standard Life
Birla Sun Life
Life Insurance Corporation of Indiar
Future Generali
ING Vysya
MetLife
Max New York Life
Reliance Life
Om Kotak Mahindra Life
SBI Life
Sahara India
TATA AIG

General insurance companies
Given below are the names of the popular general insurers in India:
HDFC Ergor
Reliance Generalr
Bajaj Allianz
Cholamandalam MS General Insurancer
Employee State Insurance Corporationr
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation
ICICI Lombard
IFFCO-Tokio
National Insurancer
Shriram Generalr
Oriental Insurancer
Peerless Smart Financialr
Royal Sundaram Alliance
TATA AIG

Challenges confronting in Indiar
The Indian insurance industry is facing the following challenges which are growing day by day:
Reduced purchasing capacity of consumersr
Risk of new players
Availability of alte
atives
Competition from foreign insurance companies

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