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Regulation & Compliance - July 6, 2026 - 9 min read

Reinsurance Broker Remuneration and Disclosure in India 2026: Treaty Brokerage, Facultative Placements, and the Transparency Push

How reinsurance brokers earn on treaty and facultative placements in India, what the IRDAI broker and re-insurance regulations require on remuneration and disclosure to cedants, and how the 2026 transparency measures, from the Sabka Bima Act to the draft intermediary disclosure regulations, are reaching reinsurance broking.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Market & Trends - July 6, 2026 - 9 min read

Data Centre Insurance Capacity Crunch in India 2026: Insurable-Value Aggregation, the Coverage Ceiling and the Hyperscaler Capex Wave

As single hyperscale campuses in India approach insurable values that exhaust a whole market's property appetite, brokers face a capacity crunch driven by aggregation, thin reinsurance budgets and a global coverage ceiling. Here is how placement and pricing are changing, and what buyers do when limits run out.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Global & Cross-Border Insurance - July 6, 2026 - 10 min read

EU PFAS Restrictions Tighten Through 2026: Product Liability and Recall Exposure for Indian Textile and Chemical Exporters

The EU's tightening PFAS restrictions turn a chemicals-compliance question into a cross-border product-liability and recall problem for Indian apparel, footwear, and specialty-chemical exporters. This guide maps consignment-rejection costs, third-party injury claims in EU courts, and the coverage gap between product liability, product recall, and environmental impairment liability wordings.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Insurance Products - July 6, 2026 - 8 min read

Investment Management Insurance for Indian AMCs, AIFs and PMS 2026: Mis-Selling, Valuation and Regulatory Defence Cover Beyond D&O

Asset managers, AIF general partners and portfolio managers carry mis-selling, valuation-dispute and SEBI-investigation exposure that a standalone D&O policy was never built to answer. This post sets out the combined investment-management wrapper that pairs professional indemnity, D&O and regulatory-defence cover for Indian fund houses in 2026.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Operations & Best Practices - July 5, 2026 - 9 min read

A Remuneration Governance Framework for Broking Firm Boards: Conflict Policy, Placement Committees, and Incentive Design That Survives Scrutiny

With IRDAI's commission overhaul under discussion and draft disclosure rules on the table, broking firm boards need a remuneration governance framework: a conflict-of-interest policy with teeth, a placement committee for large accounts, incentive structures that do not reward mis-selling, and a documentation trail that stands up to inspection.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Insurance Products - July 5, 2026 - 9 min read

Aquaculture and Shrimp Insurance for Indian Exporters and Processors 2026: Disease Mortality, Pond Stock and Cold-Chain Cover

US tariffs near 58%, a Vannamei disease shock and a projected 15 to 18% export drop have thinned the margins Indian shrimp exporters and processors hold against loss. This post maps disease-mortality pond cover, processing-plant property and business interruption, ammonia and cold-chain exposure, and the contamination and recall liability that follows Indian shrimp into export markets.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Regulation & Compliance - July 5, 2026 - 9 min read

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Commercial Insurance Claims 2026: FIR, e-FIR, Zero-FIR and the New Investigation Timelines

Theft, burglary, fire and fraud claims stand or fall on the police record, and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita has rewritten how that record is created. This post explains what e-FIR, zero-FIR, time-bound investigation and mandatory forensics mean for the FIR requirement in insurance claims, and how brokers and claims teams should document a loss under the new criminal procedure code.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Industry Risk Profiles - July 5, 2026 - 9 min read

Bulk Drug Park and API Manufacturing Risk Profile India 2026: Solvent Fire Load, Effluent Liability and Cluster Accumulation

As India's three bulk drug parks fill with API and KSM plants, brokers face a solvent-intensive risk with shared effluent and solvent-recovery infrastructure, reactor runaway exposure, pollution liability and a cluster accumulation problem that reshapes fire, liability and environmental cover.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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