Washington - Bonuses paid to top officials at ailing insurer American International Group Inc (AIG) were higher than previously reported, a Connecticut state prosecutor told CNN Saturday.
AIG employees received 218 million dollars in bonuses in recent months, higher than the 165 million dollars previously reported, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal told the broadcaster, citing information he'd gathered from subpoenaed documents.
Heard about mixing insurance and investments? That's just the stuff the unit-linked insurance plans (Ulip) have pushed, for long now.
The new trend goes a step beyond, mixing health insurance and investment. A case in point is the ICICI Prudential Health Saver, a whole life product.
Essentially, Health Saver provides for hospitalisation costs, as any mediclaim policy would. But it also builds a health savings fund, from which other non-hospitalisation related medical charges can be reimbursed.
Max New York Life, one of the earliest entrants into the private insurance market, grew 54% on new business premium in the first nine months of the current fiscal. It has also gone for major expansion last year. Rajesh Sud, the CEO and managing director of Max New York Life, who took charge four months ago, spoke to DNA Money's Nandini Goswami on a host of industry and company specific issues. Excerpts from the interview:
How has the current slowdown affected MaxNYL's business and how do you see the situation unfolding in the coming months?
Insurance scheme may not see an uptick in demand this year too
Despite being badly affected by last year’s unseasonal rainfall, coffee growers in the country are still sceptical about the rainfall insurance scheme for coffee (RISC). “The first phase of receiving insurance applications for this year was held between February 23 and 28. It did not receive a great response as growers are a still a little unsure about the scheme,” said Sudarshan AC, secretary of the Coorg Planters Association.
The Coffee Board had late last year revised the coffee production estimates by 5.6% to 2,76,600 tonne for the current crop year and indications are that a further cut in estimates is expected in the coming days.
IT giant HCL Technologies has managed to bag an order worth Rs 393 crore from National Insurance Company (NIC) to provide information technology related services and operation management modules, necessary to equip NIC with cutting edge technology.
The company, for the project worth Rs 393-crore, is entitled to provide IT services and modernization of business process for a period of seven years to NIC.
Washington - Bonuses paid to top officials at ailing insurer American International Group Inc (AIG) were higher than previously reported, a Connecticut state prosecutor told CNN Saturday.
Heard about mixing insurance and investments? That's just the stuff the unit-linked insurance plans (Ulip) have pushed, for long now.
Max New York Life, one of the earliest entrants into the private insurance market, grew 54% on new business premium in the first nine months of the current fiscal. It has also gone for major expansion last year. Rajesh Sud, the CEO and managing director of Max New York Life, who took charge four months ago, spoke to DNA Money's Nandini Goswami on a host of industry and company specific issues. Excerpts from the interview: 
IT giant HCL Technologies has managed to bag an order worth Rs 393 crore from National Insurance Company (NIC) to provide information technology related services and operation management modules, necessary to equip NIC with cutting edge technology.
HDFC Standard Life has decided to roll out health savings plan next fiscal. 
