Covid-19 impact: Life Insurer's new business premium declines 32% in March
The
new business premiums of life insurance companies declined 32 per cent in the
month of March, owing to the disruption caused by the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) and the subsequent lockdown
enforced by the government to contain its spread.
For
the month of March, the new business premiums of life insurance companies stood
at Rs 25,409 crore compared to Rs 37,459 core in March 2019. The private life
insurers, 23 in total, saw their new business premiums decline by 34.21 per
cent in March 2020 at Rs 8,342 crore compared to Rs 12,682 crore in the same
period of the last financial year.
Similarly,
state-owned life insurance behemoth – Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) – saw
its premiums decline by 31.11 per cent in the reporting month. In March 2020,
it collected new business premiums to the tune of Rs 17,066 crore compared to
Rs 24,776 crore in March 2019. Read More
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