Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Ready to Access e-Insurance Policy


·         Documents of insurance policy will become paperless and digital just like shares in the new year and efforts of insured people would be saved from preserving the physical copies of their insurance plans.
·         From April, insurance policy documents would available in electronic form for all the new insurance policies sold. More than around 25 crore insured people holding nearly 37 crore policies would receive their e-insurance in phased system.
·         The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority i.e. IRDA is likely to declare the exact manner to make it compulsory, by which insurers would have to mandatorily issue insurance products to their clients on in electronic form.
·         As per estimation, the existing cost to insurance company in India to service policies is more than Rs 600 per year per policy. With insurance repository, the first incidental cost would reduce to less than Rs 100 per year per policy.
·         It shall benefit both insured people as well as insurance companies in India in terms of cost and convenience both. CAMS Repository Services, CEO, S V Ramanan said that they have started various levels programs for educating insured people on e-insurance all over India leveraging their wide network of around 390 branches and their domain expertise in insurance.
·         Insured would have the choice to access their policies online by signing in to an insurance account in the electronic form at completely zero cost.
·         The insurance policy benefits for insured person with e-insurance account is convenience, single KYC, safety, aggregate view of all plans and service on demand.
·         Policyholders can maintain policies in electronic form with the help of Life Insurance Plans repository system and also undertake changes and revision in the plan with accuracy and speed. Policyholder will also get details about his Indian insurance policy rider with just one click.

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