Penalty: IRDA Forgive The Misleading Advertisement Of Bajaj Life Insurance - V Jayanth Kumar, Joint Director (Life)
दयालु इरडा नें बजाज लाइफ की पेनल्टी माफ़ किया।
But Life Insurance Companies Don't Forgive Customers Any Penalty......
The Corporate have legal process to approve any advertisement. In spite of legal clearance they issue such advertisement and misguide customers. Bajaj may have sold many policies by showing above advertisement, but IRDA forgive this lapse and does not imposed any penalty.Many IRDA employees have worked in private financial companies so they have sympathy with corporate in any violation.
पगार जनता से और वफादारी कम्पनिओं से !
IRDAI-HYD/LIFE/2015-16/Letter/ADVT/33/236 December
07, 2015
Mr.Anuj Agarwal, MD & CEO,
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance
Company Limited, GE Plaza, Airport Road,
Yerawada, Pune - 411 006
Re: Advertisement filed with lRDAl
in BAP Portal with UIN 0116AD201516340ENG Baiai Allianz ISecure term Plan - Date of filing 29.09.2015
This has reference to the captioned
Advertisement released by your company stating “Bajaj Allianz
isecure term
plan @ Rs.25 per day '”without providing any disclaimers.
On reviewing the same, it is noticed that the said
advertisement is in violation of clause 2 d (iii)
of IRDA (Insurance
Advertisements and Disclosure) Regulations, 2000 and falls under “unfair or misleading advertisement" category.
The authority vide
letter IRDAI-HYD/LIFE/2015-16/Letter/ADVT/25/236, dated November 12, 2015 called for your
observations. In response, your company vide letter dated 30 November,
2015 stated that the disclaimers were inadvertently missed out and due
diligence will be
exercised in future while approving/issuing such advertisements.
After examining your submission, it is to state that
issuing any advertisement in violation of
regulatory stipulations will mislead the
prospects and your submissions that the disclaimer has been omitted inadvertently cannot be accepted. In
light of the above, your company
is hereby warned for the above violations.
You are also directed
to adhere to the best practices and comply with the provisions of Advertisement
Regulations, Guidelines and Circulars issued
by the Authority from time to time while releasing insurance advertisements.
Yours faithfully,
V Jayanth Kumar, Joint Director (Life)
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