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Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is an Indian multinational public sector life insurance company headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's largest insurance company as well as the largest institutional investor with total assets under management worth ₹ 52.52 trillion (US$610 billion) as of March 2024. [ 4 ]
Life insurance is one of the growing sectors in India since 2000 as Government allowed Private players and FDI up to 26% and recently Cabinet approved a proposal to increase it to 49%. In 1955, mean risk per policy of Indian and foreign life insurers amounted respectively to ₹2,950 & ₹7,859 [ 1 ] (worth ₹15 lakh & ₹41 lakh in 2017 prices).
An ordinance was issued on 19 January 1956, nationalising the life-insurance sector, and the Life Insurance Corporation was established that year. The LIC absorbed 154 Indian and 16 non-Indian insurers and 75 provident societies. The LIC had a monopoly until the late 1990s, when the insurance industry was reopened to the private sector.
The plan is available with 20 years and 25 years term. In the event of death within the policy term, the death claim is made up of full sum assured without deducting any of the survival benefit amounts already paid. The bonus is also calculated on the full sum assured. The premium paid is tax-deductible under section 80C of Income Tax Act 1961. [1]
Premiums paid by a policyholder are not deductible from taxable income, although premiums paid via an approved pension fund registered in terms of the Income Tax Act are permitted to be deducted from personal income tax (whether these premiums are nominally being paid by the employer or employee).
LIC is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to: Hlai language (an ISO639-3 code: lic) Laudetur Iesus Christus, a Roman Catholic greeting; Abbreviation for license; Licentiate, a degree; Life Insurance Corporation, an Indian government-owned corporation; LIC or Love Insurance Corporation, working title for the Indian film Love Insurance ...
The business of general insurance was nationalised through The General Insurance (Emergency) Provisions Ordinance promulgated on 13 May 1971 and thereby the business being carried on by 107 entities was consolidated and restructured into four companies namely The New India Assurance Company Limited, Bombay, United India Fire & General Insurance Company Limited, Madras, Oriental Fire & General ...
The Act of 1988 established the 7-Pay Test, which is a stipulated premium that would create a guaranteed paid up policy within 7 years from policy inception. If premiums paid to the contract go beyond (i.e. are higher than) the premium amount stipulated then the contract has failed the 7-Pay Test and is reclassified as a Modified Endowment ...