Tuesday, March 16, 2010

'Pvt insurance firms have more death claims than LIC'
New Delhi, Mar 16 (PTI) Private sector insurance firms have more than three times the outstanding number of death claims on individual insurance policies compared to state-owned LIC, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Rajya Sabha today.Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, he said the outstanding number of death claims, as on March 31, 2009, as a percentage of total number of claims intimated to the companies in 2008-09 stood at 7.75 per cent for private firms.The same for public sector Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) was 2.21 per cent, he said.For group policies, private sector companies had 3.93 per cent outstanding claims while LIC had 0.24 per cent.Mukherjee said private sector insurance companies started operations eight years back while LIC has been in business since 1956.

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