No insurance for coronavirus from today
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Kathmandu, June 4
The Coronavirus Insurance Policy that was included within the finances for fiscal 2020-21 has been postpone till additional discover.
As the variety of individuals being contaminated by the pandemic has risen sharply, insurance coverage firms are set to shut their coronavirus insurance coverage insurance policies from tomorrow.
The non-life insurance coverage firms have determined to not promote the coverage, estimating that the quantity that must be paid in claims might be very excessive and income very low.
Chunky Chhetri, basic secretary of Nepal Insurance Association — an affiliation of non-life insurance coverage firms — stated a proposal had been despatched to the Insurance Board to droop the coverage from tomorrow.
“The board has agreed to the affiliation’s proposal,” stated Raju Raman Poudel, govt director of IB. Poudel added that after the board obtained the affiliation’s proposal, it determined to not go in opposition to it and requested them to do the needful.
“The authorities has addressed the coronavirus insurance coverage provision within the upcoming finances, however we’ve got not been capable of get a concrete determination on the matter,” he stated. “We will look ahead to the Ministry of Finance’s instruction.
Till then the coverage will stay suspended.”
Poudel added that the board would change the coverage modality as per worldwide practices on the occasion of the finance ministry.
A model of this text seems in e-paper on June 5, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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