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

Diferment of escalation clause for LIC of India's Club Member agents

Escalation Clause for LIC club member agents

In my earlier post “Conditions for Club membership for FY 2015-16 for LIC agents” I mentioned about the escalation clause and commission required to qualify for the particular club for the financial year 2015-16 for new as well as continuing club members. The escalation clause is a yearly increase in commission by 5% compared to last year, and it was effective from 2013-14 for new entrants and 2014-15 for continuing club members. But as per the new circular of LIC Mkt/A/21(R) dated 01/07/2015  dated 06/06/2016 escalation clause has been reviewed.

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