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AI & Insurtech - October 7, 2026 - 8 min read
Senior brokers and carriers at the CIAB forum said blanket AI exclusions are not gaining traction because AI is too embedded in ordinary business. The real risk for Indian buyers is an affirmative AI endorsement that covers named perils and quietly narrows everything else.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - October 5, 2026 - 10 min read
IRDAI's 23 September consultation would end compulsory loan bundling, bar volume-linked staff incentives, and let hospitals and non-dealer garages sell cover. Here is how fintechs, NBFCs, hospital chains and platforms should redesign embedded programmes before 25 October.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - October 4, 2026 - 8 min read
ACKO now bundles a dashcam with select private car policies, with footage kept on the device and the owner's phone. For fleets and company cars, the bigger question is how to make on-board video usable claims evidence without creating DPDP risk.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - October 3, 2026 - 9 min read
IRDAI's distribution paper sets out the rules Bima Sugam would run under as a market infrastructure institution: Rs 25 crore capital, a 5% motor platform-fee ceiling and dispersed insurer ownership. With launch now targeted for November and the PIR consultation open until 17 October, here is what commercial buyers and brokers should expect and submit.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 30, 2026 - 8 min read
IRDAI's 22 September 2026 circular repeals the 2020 dividend-repatriation guidelines for foreign-majority intermediaries with effect from 30 July 2026. Here is what was removed, what still applies under FEMA, and what it means for treasury and M&A.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 28, 2026 - 10 min read
SEBI set up a dedicated task force on AI-driven cyber threats in early September 2026. For listed issuers and market intermediaries, that turns AI-enabled impersonation from an IT ticket into a disclosure, governance and insurance placement question.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 23, 2026 - 11 min read
The amended IT Rules on synthetically generated information were notified in late August 2026, pushing labelling and traceability duties onto every Indian company shipping AI-generated content. This maps which policy answers a takedown, a defamation notice or a regulatory proceeding: media liability, technology E&O, cyber or D&O.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 18, 2026 - 11 min read
Adobe's acquisition of Rilo, an AI marketing startup founded in 2025, is a template for a wave of fast Indian AI exits. Warranty and indemnity insurance is now common on mid-market deals, but AI targets break the IP, non-infringement and model-behaviour warranties underwriters are asked to cover.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 18, 2026 - 11 min read
An investor has just funded an AI-native health distribution platform and named claims support as the reason. For HR heads and CFOs, that turns a pitch into a procurement problem: how do you test an AI servicing layer before your employees rely on it at a hospital counter?
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 17, 2026 - 9 min read
The 1 September merger puts more than Rs 6,600 crore of premium and over 600,000 digital partners under one brand. For a POSP the question is what happens to payouts when two platforms stop bidding for the same advisors, and for a small broker it is which accounts a platform still cannot service.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 4, 2026 - 10 min read
Acko, Navi, InRisk Labs and Turtlemint all produced capital headlines in three weeks of August 2026. Most of that money lands in retail motor and health. The part a commercial buyer should track is what an IPO runway does to commission economics, servicing headcount and data portability at the intermediary placing the programme.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 2, 2026 - 9 min read
ICICI Lombard's MD and CEO put insurer technology spend at up to 1.5 percent of premium in August 2026. Here is how a corporate buyer turns that into six service tests worth scoring, and why headline tech spend is a poor proxy for claims behaviour.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - September 1, 2026 - 9 min read
Gallagher Re put global insurtech funding at US$2.44 billion in Q2 2026, the highest in four years, with AI megadeals doing the work. India's biggest local round went to an AI-led reinsurance platform, and that changes what brokers are actually competing with.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 31, 2026 - 10 min read
A Forrester Consulting survey found 86% of organisations past the AI agent pilot stage but only 34% trusting what their agents do, with $2.1 million in average added costs for those deploying without governance. Here is how those four cost buckets sort into an Indian corporate insurance tower, and what the proposal form now asks.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 29, 2026 - 9 min read
IRDAI told regulated entities selling insurance on digital platforms to self-assess against the CCPA dark pattern guidelines, then brought in the Institute of Public Auditors of India to watch the sector for nine months. Intermediaries are regulated entities, and the gated quote is already named.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 29, 2026 - 10 min read
Rezolv's $12.5 million Series A for AI-native lending and debt collection was reported on 21 August 2026. When a machine runs the recovery conversation, the regulated lender absorbs the conduct and DPDP consequence while the vendor carries technology E&O. Here is how to split the exposure before the first automated call.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 28, 2026 - 9 min read
Every AI claims result Indian insurers have quantified publicly in 2026 sits in motor and health. Commercial property, marine and liability claims still move at the speed of a surveyor's diary, which should change what a corporate buyer negotiates.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 27, 2026 - 9 min read
India's largest standalone health insurer has put the fraud rate in health claims at 25 to 30 per cent and set out to automate more than half its cashless claims within two years. For a corporate buyer, that means more claims scored by a model before any human reads the file.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 26, 2026 - 9 min read
The Delhi High Court refused ANI Media an interim injunction against OpenAI on 24 July 2026, holding that copyright protects expression and not facts, and that the RAG outputs in issue were not substantially similar to ANI's reports. For Indian companies deploying generative AI, the exposure shifts to what their own deployment publishes, and to policies that carriers started excluding in January 2026.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 25, 2026 - 10 min read
IRDAI's seven-member AI working group was formed on 19 June 2026 with a three-month deadline and a brief aimed at claims processing, fraud detection and an audit framework. Commercial buyers do not have to wait for the report: here are the questions to put to insurers at this renewal, and the limits of what explainability can win you.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 22, 2026 - 9 min read
IRDAI gave a seven-member working group three months from June 2026 to recommend an AI audit framework, naming claims processing and fraud detection as priority functions. The group's own mandate headings tell you what evidence an audit will demand, and most of it can be built before the report lands.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 20, 2026 - 10 min read
Galaxy Health built a regulator-compliant distribution platform in under three months, and Jefferies is valuing Turtlemint on the same rails. When plumbing takes a quarter to replicate, the broker's durable asset is the data terms in the insurer agreement.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 19, 2026 - 10 min read
Munich Re's agreement to acquire At-Bay at a $575 million enterprise value signals that cyber underwriting bundled with continuous security monitoring is now reinsurer strategy. This post examines whether the model is placeable in India, what DPDP does to scanning data, and how scan-based conditions and MFA or EDR warranties change what brokers must manage mid-policy.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
AI & Insurtech - August 18, 2026 - 9 min read
Voice AI now answers about 70% of customer calls at India's largest private general insurer. For commercial buyers, the escalation routes and named contacts that used to be informal now belong in the servicing agreement, with metrics that make them enforceable.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
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