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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).
The ownership of the four erstwhile subsidiary companies and the General Insurance Corporation of India was vested with the Government of India. All company shares held by the GIC were transferred to the central government. [5] OICL made a modest beginning with a first-year premium of ₹ 99,946 (US$1,200) in 1950. The company's goal was ...
National Insurance Company Limited was incorporated on 5 December 1906 with its registered office in Kolkata.Consequent to passing of the General Insurance Business Nationalisation Act in 1972, 21 Foreign and 11 Indian Companies were merged with it and National became a subsidiary of General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC) which is fully owned by the Government of India.
The Government of India decided to nationalise the insurance industry. 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 ...
The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. (NIACL) is an Indian public sector insurance company owned by the Government of India and administered by the Ministry of Finance. Headquartered in Mumbai , [ 5 ] it is the largest nationalised general insurance company of India based on gross premium collection inclusive of foreign operations. [ 6 ]
The insurance sector has gone through a number of phases by allowing private companies to solicit insurance and also allowing foreign direct investment. India allowed private companies in insurance sector in 2000, setting a limit on FDI to 26%, which was increased to 49% in 2014, [ 2 ] and further increased to 74% in May 2021.
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 ...