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MMTC-PAMP appoints Anika Agarwal as President - Consumer Business ANI | Updated: Feb 03, 2021 15:52 IST New Delhi [India], February 3 (ANI/NewsVoir): MMTC-PAMP, India's first and only London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) accredited Good Delivery refinery for Gold and Silver today announced the appointment of Anika Agarwal as President - Consumer Business. Anika would be responsible for building and delivering the strategy to build MMTC-PAMP's brand and footprint across India across the Physical and Digital spaces. She will report in to Vikas Singh, Ma...

How health insurance policyholders can enjoy telemedicine benefit Insurance policies with OPD benefit cover this practice The Economic Survey 2020-21 has highlighted the adoption of telemedicine in India since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in March last year. To enable access to healthcare services, when the lockdown was imposed in March to contain the spread of the virus, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) issued telemedicine practice and guidelines 2020 on March 25, 2020. In this regard, IRDAI, the insurance regulator, too had advised insurers to allow coverage for tele...

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed Star Health Insurance to join IPO frenzy; firm valued in excess of $3 billion COVID-19 has triggered a surge in sales of health insurance policies. Kotak Mahindra Capital, Citi, Axis Capital, ICICI Securities and BofA Securities are the investment banks engaged by the firm for the IPO. January 20, 2021 / 08:28 AM IST India’s first and largest private standalone health insurance provider, Chennai-based Star Health Insurance, which is backed by ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and private equity firms Westbridge Capital and Madison Capital, is planning a D-stree...

× Care Health Insurance’s new rider offers no great benefit. We review its pros and cons Care Health, earlier called Religare Health Insurance, launched a rider cover — Care Shield — in December 2020. The rider can be purchased with the company’s existing health plans Care, Care Freedom (diabetes cover) and Care Advantage (₹1- crore sum insured (SI) cover). A rider is an add-on insurance cover that comes with the basic policy for an additional price. We review if the rider, Care Shield, is worth the money or only a cosmetic change that agents are using as a selling point. What’s...

Few insurers offer products that provide holistic health cover for mental illnesses. COVID-19 has not only affected the physical health of people, but also led to higher stress levels, anxiety and even depression across the globe. According to the findings of a World Health Organization (WHO) survey, published in October, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted or halted critical mental health services in 93 per cent of countries worldwide while the demand for mental health is increasing. The survey, covering 130 countries, highlighted the impact of COVID-19 on access to mental health services...