Life insurance firms reported an increase of about 27 per cent in its new premium collection in February at Rs13,698.52 crore, data from insurance regulator Irdai showed on Wednesday.
Of all the 24 life insurance firms, country’s only state-owned as well as the largest insurer LIC, the increase in new premium collection was up by 24 per cent to Rs8,476.73 crore during the month.
Rest of 23 private sector players had new premium collection of Rs5,221.79 crore in February, up 32.4 per cent from a year ago, showed the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irdai) data. Among the private sector life insurers, SBI Life reported new premium of Rs709.72 crore in the 11th month of this fiscal, up 32 per cent; HDFC Standard Life witnessed a jump of 80.4 per cent in new premium at Rs1190.90 crore during the month.
Of the others, ICICI Prudential Life had new business worth Rs780.79 crore, down 12 per cent from a year ago, Bajaj Allianz Life was at Rs368.49 crore as against Rs 177.51 crore year ago and Birla Sun Life Rs182.79 crore against Rs142.43 crore.
Bajaj Allianz said, this is the highest increase in new business premium for the company among the top players in the insurance industry.
The growth was 107.59 per cent. Cumulatively, all the 24 life insurance companies' new premium collection during April-February period of this fiscal rose to Rs1,64,321.18 crore, from Rs1,40,346.76 crore a year ago period.