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Operations & Best Practices - June 3, 2026 - 30 min read
Indian insurance brokers are automating policy administration in 2026 to manage IRDAI broker regulations 2018, composite licence scope, endorsement TAT and MIS reporting. This post covers issuance, endorsement, MIS redesign and platform options.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - June 01, 2026 - 30 min read
Co-broking on Indian commercial placements has matured through 2025-26 with IRDAI broker regulations clarification, fee-sharing protocol standardisation and client-facing transparency expectations. Brokers, insurers and risk managers now operate under a practical framework that has displaced ambiguous historical practice.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 29, 2026 - 24 min read
Indian listed corporates need formalised insurance MIS reaching the audit committee. This piece details KPI architecture, IBNR and IBNeR reserving cadence, Ind AS 109 implications, and a Sarvada-style placement review framework.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 27, 2026 - 16 min read
A playbook for automating the renewal calendar inside an Indian commercial insurance broker firm, covering the 120-day timeline, milestone triggers, system architecture, exception handling, and the operating metrics that distinguish mature renewal operations from spreadsheet-driven workflows.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 27, 2026 - 21 min read
A playbook for managing broker commission disclosure and reconciliation in Indian commercial insurance, covering IRDAI Payment of Commission Regulations 2023, EOM cap interactions, client remuneration disclosure, premium-to-commission reconciliation, GST treatment, common clawback discrepancies, and monthly close discipline.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 26, 2026 - 20 min read
Operating guidance for allocating insurance premium across multiple locations and cost centres of Indian corporates, covering sum-insured-based, claims-experience-based, and headcount-based methods, GST input credit considerations, IT Act recharge implications, captive cell allocation, audit trail expectations, and the transfer pricing overlay for cross-border subsidiaries.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 26, 2026 - 14 min read
A benchmark guide to policy-issuance turnaround time across Indian commercial insurers in 2026, covering quote-to-cover stages, quartile ranges by line of business, root causes of delay, and how brokers should pressure-test insurer claims of speed.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Operations & Best Practices - May 26, 2026 - 23 min read
A playbook for managing wording libraries inside an Indian commercial insurance broker firm, covering IIB standard wordings versus insurer-specific variations, tracking exclusion drift across renewals, diff tooling for comparison memos, change-log discipline, audit trail for IRDAI inspections, and worked examples from cyber and D&O wordings.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 25, 2026 - 19 min read
An operational playbook for claims advocacy as the broker's substantive differentiation in Indian commercial insurance, covering FNOL coordination, surveyor liaison, reserves negotiation, sub-limit interpretation pushback, partial-loss disputes, ombudsman escalation, SLAs, tooling, and the measurable value to commercial buyers.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 25, 2026 - 20 min read
A playbook for managing mid-term endorsements inside an Indian commercial broker firm, covering triage by risk class, pro-rata and short-period premium adjustment formulae, sum-insured revisions during inflation, automation candidates versus underwriter-touch endorsements, and IRDAI Expenses of Management Regulations 2024 impact on endorsement economics.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 23, 2026 - 15 min read
A practitioner's guide to designing, building, and operating a claims data warehouse inside an Indian commercial insurance broker firm, covering source-system extraction, milestone schema, cohort tagging, governance, and the reporting layer that turns raw claim records into renewal and panel decisions.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 22, 2026 - 19 min read
A working operations guide for Indian commercial brokers on mid-term policy cancellation in 2026: short-period scale versus pro-rata refunds, GST refund treatment, IRDAI cancellation circulars, broker commission claw-back, written client instruction protocols, refund routing with TDS, endorsement issuance discipline, and the common dispute points that surface in audit.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Operations & Best Practices - May 21, 2026 - 19 min read
A working design guide for risk manager dashboards in Indian mid-cap and large-cap corporates in 2026: the key risk indicators to surface, the insurance programme visibility a board actually needs, the tooling choices (Archer, ServiceNow GRC, Tableau, Power BI), and the integration paths into broker portals, IRDAI and SEBI disclosure timelines, and IFRS 17 corporate-side mirror reporting.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Operations & Best Practices - May 21, 2026 - 17 min read
How Indian commercial insurance brokers should structure commission accounting under the IRDAI Expenses of Management Regulations 2024: revenue recognition timing, EoM and brokerage cap interplay, audit trail for trail commission, and GST positioning on brokerage.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Operations & Best Practices - May 21, 2026 - 16 min read
A working framework for auditing electronic policy issuance against IRDAI rules in 2026, covering PAS-CSV control gates, stamp duty compliance, wording version traceability, and the inspection patterns IRDAI uses most often.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 20, 2026 - 17 min read
A working framework for benchmarking Indian non-life insurers on commercial claims service levels, covering FNOL-to-surveyor timelines, surveyor-to-report cycles, report-to-settlement windows, quartile ranges by insurer cohort, and how brokers should put the data to work.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 19, 2026 - 16 min read
A practical map of the software stack a mid-market Indian commercial insurance broker needs in 2026, covering CRM, placement platforms, policy administration, claims tracking, AI assistants, build versus buy decisions, and firm-size thresholds.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 14, 2026 - 15 min read
A working method for triaging 50 or more client locations into a risk-engineering survey calendar: MFL-rank scoring, claim-frequency weighting, surveyor capacity planning, and the operational playbook that turns survey output into renewal value.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 7, 2026 - 14 min read
Risk managers and legal teams reviewing commercial contracts in India must assess indemnity clauses, waiver of subrogation requirements, additional insured endorsements, and minimum insurance specifications; each carries distinct implications under Indian law and IRDAI-filed policy wordings that differ sharply from US and UK templates.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
Operations & Best Practices - May 6, 2026 - 14 min read
Insurance integration is consistently the last item addressed in Indian M&A post-close checklists and the source of costly coverage gaps. This guide covers the first 90 days priority list, policy assignment and novation, change of control endorsements, and the transition from dual programmes to a unified structure.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 6, 2026 - 14 min read
Corporate risk managers in India need live portfolio-level visibility into open claims, reserves, and settlement timelines rather than quarterly insurer reports. This guide covers what a claims dashboard must show, how to source the data, and how to set measurable KPIs against IRDAI-mandated settlement timelines.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 5, 2026 - 12 min read
Large Indian enterprises collect hundreds of COIs annually from vendors, contractors, and tenants. Without a systematic tracking process, deficient COIs create uninsured vendor gaps and contractual breaches that only surface at claim time.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 5, 2026 - 11 min read
Most Indian companies renew insurance without knowing whether their premium rate is above or below the market. Benchmarking gives risk managers the data to challenge renewal pricing with evidence rather than assertion.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Operations & Best Practices - May 5, 2026 - 14 min read
A practical guide for Indian risk managers on building a risk register suited to mid-market companies and systematically mapping identified risks to insurance coverage, retention, or mitigation, closing the gap between what appears on the register and what the insurance programme actually covers.
By Tarun Kumar Singh
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