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Post-pandemic recovery to sustain growth in insurance premiums, improving profitability: Moody's

20 Jan 2022 Evaluate

Moody's Investors Service in its latest report has said that post-pandemic recovery will sustain growth in insurance premiums, improving profitability amid favourable government reforms in the state-owned insurance sector. It said the Indian insurance industry's growth prospects are favourable, underpinned by an expected 9.3 per cent GDP expansion in fiscal 2021, which ends March 2022, and by strong demand for health insurance in the wake of the pandemic,.

According to the report, total premiums grew 9 per cent in the first nine months of fiscal 2021, slightly ahead of the 8.6 per cent increase in fiscal 2020, with general insurance premiums (including health) up 11 per cent and life new business premiums rising seven per cent. It also said robust premium growth is positive for insurers' profitability, which is currently weak because of persistently low prices and the rising cost of claims.

The report further said the government's plans to recapitalise India's dominant state-owned insurers and list the country's biggest insurer, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), on the stock market will encourage a more disciplined approach to underwriting in the respective general and life insurance sectors. It said this will pave the way for price increases across the market, further supporting insurers' profitability. It added that rising premiums and prices, in turn, will help insurers absorb higher claims. This pushed the average net loss ratio for general insurers to 95 per cent in the first three months of the financial year 2020-21 from 81 per cent in the previous year.

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