Tightening its supervision on domestic life insurers, regulator Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) has asked them to provide detailed information on premiums they are collecting from policyholders.
Insurers will have to submit in the prescribed formats information pertaining to policies where premiums are awaited for more than a quarter to Irda.
Data of premiums awaited in the individual business of non-single premium type alone shall be included for this purpose.
The data will include the number and amount of policies.
The premiums awaited on the policies sold under rural and social sector obligations shall be furnished separately in the relevant columns prescribed by the Irda.
Individual business reckoned for the purpose of rural and social sector obligations only needs to be considered for this purpose.
Data for 2008-09 may be furnished separately for linked and non-linked policies with slab-wise break-ups of the annual premiums.
Life insurers, from the first quarter of 2009-10, would be required to submit data with linked/non-linked, premium slab-wise, mode-wise, distribution channel-wise break-ups, as shown in the formats.
Insurers are also required to furnish data for the year 2008-09 by the end of this month. The data for the first quarter of 2009-10 onwards will have to be furnished by the 15th of the month following the subsequent quarter.
source: Indian Express