EXCLUSIVE India LIC’s embedded value set at over $66.8 bln, govt official says

State-run Life Insurance Corporation of India’s (LIC) embedded value has been finalised at more than 5 trillion rupees ($66.82 billion), a government official who is overseeing what is expected to be the country’s largest IPO said on Thursday.
REUTERS EVENTS Death after COVID: What insurers do not know about post-pandemic mortality

Life insurers need to look well beyond COVID-19 deaths to see how the global pandemic is altering the mortality risk of people they cover, a medical insurance expert said on Wednesday.
Shocked by COVID deaths, young Indians rush for life insurance

BENGALURU, June 16 (Reuters) – Like many other twenty-somethings in India, Beverly Coutinho kept postponing buying a life insurance policy, until a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths made her confront her own mortality. “I saw people my own age dying, which prompted me to get life insurance immediately,” says Coutinho, a 24-year-old senior executive […]