An insurance premium is the actual amount of money charged by insurance companies for active coverage. An insurance premium for the same service can vary widely among insurance providers, which is why experts strongly recommend getting several quotes before committing to an insurance policy. Insurance agents or brokers will take your basic information and calculate an insurance premium estimate based on your answers and other factors. The lowest quoted price on an insurance premium may be the better bargain, but the level of coverage may also be lower.
The cost of an insurance premium is largely based on statistics, not necessarily on individual habits or history. A 22 year old male seeking car insurance for a sports car can often anticipate a higher insurance premium than a 45 year old woman driving a mid-size sedan. Both may have excellent driving records, but the insurance company considers a younger driver in a faster car to be more at risk for accidents. Therefore, the insurance premium quotes will be noticeably different. In general, a more expensive or faster car will cost more to insure, simply because owners of those vehicles TEND to drive faster.
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What is an Insurance Premium?
Life Insurance Company of India’s Bima Account – I policy
“LIC’s Bima Account – I ” is a simple non-linked plan under which you can be covered without undergoing any medical examination subject to certain conditions.
This plan offers you everything you think of an insurance plan should provide:
- Simplicity
- Liquidity
- Guaranteed minimum return
- No medical examination
- Transparent charges
- Risk cover
Under this plan, the premiums paid by you, after deduction of charges, will be credited to the Policyholder’s Account maintained separately for each policyholder. The risk cover will be provided by deduction of mortality charges from the Policyholder’s Account.
If all due premiums are paid, the amount held in your Policyholder’s Account will earn an annual interest rate of 6% p.a. which will be guaranteed for whole of the policy term. In addition to this guaranteed return, if all due premiums are paid, your account may earn an additional return depending upon the experience under this plan.
You will also have an option to pay additional (Top-up) premiums without any increase in risk cover.
Loan facility will also be available immediately after first policy anniversary.
PAYMENT OF PREMIUMS: You may pay premiums regularly at yearly, half-yearly, quarterly or monthly (through ECS mode only) intervals over the term of the policy.
Insurance companies in India
The Indian insurance industry has life as well as general (non-life) insurance companies.
Life Insurance companies in India
1. Life Insurance Corporation of India
2. MetLife India Life Insurance
3. ICICI Prudential
4. Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance
5. Max New York Life Insurance
6. Sahara Life Insurance
7. TATA AIG Life Insurance
8. HDFC Standard Life
9. Birla Sunlife
10. SBI Life Insurance Company Limited
11. Kotak Life Insurance
12. Aviva Life Insurance
13. Reliance Life Insurance Company Limited
14. ING Vysya Life Insurance
15. Shriram Life Insurance
16. Bharti AXA Life Insurance Co Ltd
17. Future Generali Life Insurance Co Ltd
18. IDBI Fortis Life Insurance
19. AEGON Religare Life Insurance
20. DLF Pramerica Life Insurance
21. CANARA HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce LIFE INSURANCE
22. Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
23. IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company
What is Insurance
Insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the insurance; an insured, or policyholder, is the person or entity buying the insurance policy. The insurance rate is a factor used to determine the amount to be charged for a certain amount of insurance coverage, called the premium. Risk management, the practice of appraising and controlling risk, has evolved as a discrete field of study and practice.
The transaction involves the insured assuming a guaranteed and known relatively small loss in the form of payment to the insurer in exchange for the insurer’s promise to compensate (indemnify) the insured in the case of a financial (personal) loss. The insured receives a contract, called the insurance policy, which details the conditions and circumstances under which the insured will be financially compensated.
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