Nationalization, Privatization and Globalization of Insurance Secto

Your grandparents probably bought insurance from a neighbourhood agent and trusted the LIC name above all. Your cousin today may buy a policy on a phone from a private insurer, some of them with foreign partners. How did one business go from state monopoly in life insurance to a crowded market, and what does the law say at each step? The answer runs through three Acts: the LIC Act 1956, the IRDA Act 1999 and the 2025 amendment to the Insurance Act 1938.

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Indian insurance moved in three legal stages: the state took over life insurance through the LIC Act 1956, the market was reopened to private Indian companies under the IRDA Act 1999, and the 2025 amendment now allows foreign investment up to one hundred per cent in an Indian insurance company.

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