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Life Insurance

Life insurance is a contract between a policyholder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money in exchange for a premium, upon the death of an insured person.

Now update your contact details online in your LIC policy

update contact details online in lic policy

Keeping your contact details updated in your insurance policy helps you to get important notification related to your policy on time. Till now you have to register your LIC policy on the LIC portal to update your contact details in your policy or send the request to servicing branch. But, in the recent initiative “Help … Read more

LIC declared one time Diamond Jubilee Bonus

LIC Diamond jubilee bonus

Life Insurance Corporation of India has declared the Bonus rates for the valuation period 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2016. Along with it, LIC has also declared the one time Diamond Jubilee Bonus for its policyholders. Diamond Jubilee Bonus is declared from Rs. 5 per thousand sum assured to Rs. 60 per thousand sum assured. It … Read more

All you need to know about sites comparing insurance products

You might have come across many websites which are comparing the insurance plans premiums and collecting data about the interested person through their online portals. These sites are called Web Aggregators. “Web Aggregator” – For the purpose of these guidelines, a web aggregator is a Company registered under Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), approved … Read more

Types of revival for lapsed LIC policies

Types of Revival in LIC

To keep the risk cover in force in your LIC policy a policyholder must pay his/her insurance premium on time or within the grace period. If a policyholder failed to do so then his policy became lapse, and no risk cover is available under that policy. To restart the risk cover in the policy, a … Read more

How to protect yourself from insurance frauds

Fraud Alert

  Lots of Insurance frauds are in the news of various newspapers, Fraudsters using various means to cheat people, they are using phone calls claiming themselves officers of IRDA, preparing duplicate policy bonds, imposing as an insurance agent with false ID cards and much more that we cannot imagine. Insurance scam: Crime branch arrests man … Read more