India's Insurance Industry: Liberalization, Deregulation and Private Sector Opportunities
By Ashish Lall & Shirley Koh
Publisher Ref No:
ABCC-2008-002
Pub/Rev Date:
2008
Industry:
Insurance
Case Length:
28 pages
Teaching Note Ref:
-
Teaching Note:
-
Organisation:
Tata Consultancy Services
Period Covered:
1999 - 2006
Country:
India
Level:
Undergraduate/ Postgraduate
Publisher:
The Asian Business Case Centre, Nanyang Technological University
Abstract
Since 1999, India's insurance industry had been undergoing transformation brought about by liberalisation and detariffication. Liberalisation had opened the former government-operated insurance industry to private competition and foreign minority ownership. Macroeconomic factors especially high GDP growth rates were fostering growth in the industry. While the incumbent insurers still dominated the market, private insurers were meeting the competition with new products and distribution channels in the brave new world of post-detariffication.
Issues: Liberalisation of Indian insurance industry