Health Insurance
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 04 2022 - 3 min readHealth is most important for people despite knowing that fact, a considerable proportion of the Indian population does not realise the significance of protecting their greatest wealth—health. According to NITI Aayog 2021 report, around 30 per cent or 42 crores of people is bereft of any kind of health insurance. However, ever since the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 20 2022 - 3 min readThe Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) is deliberating on allowing Life Insurance companies to sell health insurance indemnity products, either only distribution or both manufacturing and distribution. However, the regulator said that same is under consideration and no decision has been taken yet. According to a report by a reputed market researcher, ...
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Franchise India Bureau Sep 20 2018 - 1 min readAnil Vij, Health Minister of Haryana, has said that 194 government and private hospitals of the state have been empanelled for the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat scheme. Vij said, "It will directly benefit around 80 lakh people of the state with free medical facilities of up to Rs 5 lakh." "Haryana is the first state in ...
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Franchise India Bureau Aug 21 2018 - 1 min readStar Health and Allied Insurance is being acquired by ace stock market investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and a consortium of private equity firms WestBridge Capital and Madison Capital. The buying consortium, Safecrop Holdings Pvt. Ltd., will acquire shares from Star Health Investments Pvt. Ltd. and funds managed or advised by ICICI Venture, Tata Capital and Apis ...
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Franchise India Bureau Jul 30 2018 - 2 min readMax Life Insurance will add 145 branches and make a capital investment of Rs 250 crore over the next twelve months as it looks to ‘rebuild’ its proprietary channels business, Max group founder Analjit Singh told ET, within a week of taking over as chairman of the insurance arm’s holding company. “We need to regain ...