For the first time in
A Health Insurance Company based in Chennai namely Star Health Insurance Company has introduced for the First time in India, an insurance scheme for covering the persons who are tested positive with HIV.
The Chairman of the Company, Mr.Jagannathan said that the Star Health Insurance Company has done business worth about Rs 170 crores in the last year, which is 800 % more than the previous year. The Company has sold 2 lakh policies in the last year and in the current financial year a target of Rs 350 crores has been fixed. So far 6,550 persons have been disbursed with their policy amount.
Recently, the Star Health Insurance Company has introduced a new policy to the persons who were tested positive for HIV positive. The policy covers a period of four years. A person who insures for a sum of Rs 15,000/- policy, has to pay an annual premium of Rs 1,750 to Rs 2,000/-
The Insurance policy scheme meant for the persons who are tested with HIV positive, will put them in a positive frame of mind and those people who are avoiding them may even change their mind and have some interest in them and look after them in their hour of crisis at least for the sake of policy amount insured by them.
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