Aggressive intermediary-led competition is hurting profitability across the general insurance sector, said consulting firm Praxis Global Alliance in a report reiterating insurance regulator IRDAI’s growing concerns over rising commissions and weakening underwriting discipline by general insurance companies.

NEW DELHI: Non-life insurance has become a distribution game with intermediaries making most of the money even as insurers suffer underwriting losses and customers pay high…

Aggressive intermediary-led competition is hurting profitability across the general insurance sector, said consulting firm Praxis Global Alliance in a report reiterating insurance…

India’s top insurers run combined ratios of 110–113%, spending more than they earn on every policy while their global D2C counterparts operate profitably at 84–89%