Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Public Liability Insurance Act and Recent Amendments : February 2025

SCOPE OF PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE ACT AND IF THE INSURANCE POLICY IS MANDATORY IN NATURE: The Public Liability Insurance Act of 1991 (“Act”) is a pioneering legislative mechanism which has been designed to address the complex challenges of industrial safety and victim compensation. This Act wa...
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Understanding Additional Insured Coverage

Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Understanding Additional Insured Coverage : January 2025

Understanding Additional Insured: Customer contracts often require the policy holder to add the customer as additional insured to the service provider’s insurance policy. An additional insured is an individual or entity that is added to an insurance policy of existing entity to extend the coverage...
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Insurance Advisory Newsletter – ‘Exclusion’ under Insurance Policies : December 2024

What is an ‘Exclusion’ under insurance policies? An exclusion, simply put, is the liability or risk which an insurance company would not cover. It is a settled principle that insurance contracts exclude: (i) intentional or deliberate acts or omissions which are known by the insured would result ...
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Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Commercial Crime Insurance and Cyber Insurance : November 2024

Does Commercial Crime Insurance And Cyber Insurance Overlap? In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, companies face an increasing range of risks, particularly from commercial crime and cyber threats. Commercial Crime Insurance protects companies from the losses resulting from direct lo...
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Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Understanding Umbrella Insurance Policy And Excess Liability Insurance Policy : October 2024

Business entities at times need to choose policy structures in addition to their primary policy program. From the perspective of structural bifurcation, a primary insurance policy (“Primary Insurance Policy”) can be the policy getting triggered on the occurrence of a claim event. The insured can...
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Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Understanding Employment Practices Liability Insurance : September 2024

Employment Practices Liability Insurance (“EPLI”) is a type of insurance coverage that protects businesses against claims made by employees, former employees, or prospective employees against employment-related issues. This includes claims such as discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination...
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Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Professional Indemnity Insurance vis-a-vis Cyber Insurance : August 2024

Professional Indemnity Insurance And Cyber Insurance  As the usage of technology provides significant benefits to save time and effort, it has also resulted in an increase in claims pertaining to professional negligence and cyber-crime events. It is quite evident that without Professional Indemnity...
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Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Export Credit Insurance Policy : July 2024

What is an Export Credit Insurance Policy? The risk exposure involved in foreign trade is highly diverse and unpredictable. Businesses engaged in export trade are often at risk of export proceeds not being realized due to commercial or political risk factors. The commonality between foreign and dome...
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Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Group Term Life Insurance Policy : June 2024

Group Term Life Insurance  A group term life insurance plan (“GTL”) refers to a life insurance plan that covers a group of employees annually. GTL is often provided by employers to attract and retain top talent and may be offered as part of a comprehensive benefits package. During the policy te...
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Insurance Advisory Newsletter – Group Insurances Compared : GMC vis-a-vis GPA : May 2024

Group Insurances Compared: GMC vis-a-vis GPA Group insurance pertains to an insurance plan that offers coverage to a group of individuals under the same policy. A standard coverage is provided to all the employees covered within the same policy which is called as the “Master Policy”. The employe...
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