GREAT NEWS FOR INDEPENDENT SURVEYORS NOW TIME TO ACT

[LALIT GUPTA]

Dear Friends,

Plz find the trailing mails of Sh.Pankaj Kumar Tewari ,General Manager, Surveyor IRDAI along with follow up mail of Oriental Insurance Company barring any unlicensed person to conduct survey job.

Friends, now time to act against all defaulters of our profession who tried to tranish image of independent surveyor by sending unlicenced person on their behalf to conduct survey & involved in EOI/Contract Survey & even on independent basis with lesser fee.

All of you are requested to plz go through this mail & forwarded to local office for implementaion of this order & restrict utilisation of any unlicenced person by any of Surveyor 

Believe this act of yours will surely be for our own survival which is on stake due to illegal activities of few individuals.

I further request all of  Motor Surveyors not to consider any Spot survey report being conducted by these contractors through unlicence persons.

Hope for your support  for better future of our noble profession 

Rgds!

Lalit Gupta

Director/ Ex President IIISLA

 

From: Santosh Chaudhary
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 3:19 PM
To: Regional In-charges; RM MOTOR OD Group; SVC incharges
Cc: Milap Chand; Mudita Singh; Shampa Khastgir; Debasish Mohanty; Savvy Sehgal; Sanjay Kumar; Shahbaz Ahmed; Anita Meena; Sandip Kar
Subject: Involvement of Unlicensed persons by Corporate Surveyors & Loss Assessors
Importance: High

 

URGENT IRDAI COMPLIANCE

 

Dear Ma'am/Sir,

 

We have been notified by the IRDAI on measures to be taken regarding the issue of 'Involvement of Unlicensed persons by Corporate Surveyors   & Loss Assessors' ( Where corporate surveyors are utilizing unlicensed persons for carrying out insurance survey and loss assessment of claims below the amount specified in Regulation 12 of IRDAI (Insurance Surveyors and Loss Assessors) Regulations, 2015(hereafter referred as Surveyors Regulations. This applies to all claims even where the insurers are utilizing Surveyors to assess losses below the “No Survey” Limits of Rs 50,000/- in case of motor and Rs. 100,000/- for property claims. Hence, the Authority lays down that all survey and loss assessment jobs allocated to a Corporate Surveyor, for all claims , are required to be assessed by a licensed surveyor only.

 

In view of the foregoing you are advised to take following actions in compliance of the directions of the Authority:

1.       For a Corporate Surveyor to be allotted a survey job, it is now a pre-requisite to provide to OICL a list of all licensed surveyor and loss assessors (along with the authorized department) working in his firm. So, we further advise you to ensure that No survey job is  allotted to a Corporate Surveyor unless the list format as attached is submitted by the Corporate Surveyor in writing. Additionally please advise all corporate surveyor entities that the list as per format attached (list of all licensed surveyors working with them) should be  shared with OICL latest by 10^th   October 2021.

2.       Before allocating a surveyor and loss assessor job to a corporate surveyor, please ensure,  only those persons who are licensed in the relevant department are entrusted the job of survey and loss assessment. Under no circumstances can unlicensed surveyors be utilized.

3.       Please also find attached ' Format of Declaration by the Corporate Surveyor', the same has to be sought in written along with every survey report in respect of each survey and loss assessment by the Corporate Surveyor.

4.       You are required to monitor the performance of surveyors, including compliance with the code of conduct and the duties and responsibilities laid down in Regulation 21(2) of Surveyors Regulations as amended from time to time. It is the responsibility of the insurer(OICL) to enquire into cases of violation of code of conduct brought to its notice, conduct the necessary enquiry and investigation and report wherever violation is established, to the Authority immediately. Upon information on any such violation please bring it to the Notice of the Head Office immediately.

 

On 11^th Oct, 2021, each RO is requested to confirm compliance of the above instructions .

 

 

Thanks & regards,

 

Santosh Chaudhary, Chief Manager

Motor OD Claims (Head Office),

The Oriental Insurance Company Limited,

88, Janpath (First Floor), New Delhi.

Tel : 011-43659815 |

CIN :U66010DL1947GOI007158

 

 

From: Santosh Chaudhary
Sent: 27 September 2021 10:58
To: Savvy Sehgal
Subject: FW: Involvement of Unlicensed persons by Corporate Surveyors & Loss Assessors
Importance: High

 

Urgent.

 

Thanks & regards,

 

Santosh Chaudhary, Chief Manager

Motor OD Claims (Head Office),

The Oriental Insurance Company Limited,

88, Janpath (First Floor), New Delhi.

Tel : 011-43659815 |

CIN :U66010DL1947GOI007158

 

From: Milap Chand
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 10:20 AM
To: Mudita Singh
Cc: Santosh Chaudhary; Shampa Khastgir
Subject: FW: Involvement of Unlicensed persons by Corporate Surveyors & Loss Assessors
Importance: High

 

Kindly see the attached formats and trailing mail and ensure compliance.

 

 

Thanks and Regards,

 

मिलाप चन्द / Milap Chand

महाप्रबंधक  /General Manager

 

The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd.,

Head Office,” Oriental House”,

A-25/27 Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110002

Phone no. 011-41064802
Web Portal: www.orientalinsurance.org.in

CIN:U66010DL1947GOI007158

 

From: OICL CMD
Sent: 25 September 2021 18:51
To: D. Nagalakshmi; R R Singh; Milap Chand; Rashmi Bajpai
Cc: Anjan Dey; Anita Gupta
Subject: Involvement of Unlicensed persons by Corporate Surveyors & Loss Assessors
Importance: High

 

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From: Pankaj Kumar Tewari <pankajk...@irdai.gov.in>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 6:02 PM
To: sanj...@bhartiaxa.com; suryana...@cholams.murugappa.com; ramchand...@cocogeneralinsurance.com; shanai...@edelweissfin.com; An...@Futuregenerali.in; vijay...@godigit.com; Ritesh...@hdfcergo.com; bhargav....@icicilombard.com; managing...@iffcotokio.co.in; suresh....@kotak.com; Roopam....@libertyinsurance.in; rajive.ku...@magma-hdi.co.in; pankaj...@rahejaqbe.com; rakes...@relianceada.com; m...@royalsundaram.in; pc.ka...@sbigeneral.in; anil.a...@shriramgi.com; neeles...@tata-aig.com; atul....@newindia.co.in; OICL CMD; sharad...@universalsompo.com; va...@acko.com; Tapan....@bajajallianz.co.in; suchit...@nic.co.in; c...@uiic.co.in
Cc: 'PankajKr. Tewari'; 'Nimisha Srivastava'
Subject: Involvement of Unlicensed persons by Corporate Surveyors & Loss Assessors

 

 

 

 

CEOs of All General Insurers and Surveyor and Loss Assessors

  

Reg: Involvement of Unlicensed persons by Corporate Surveyors   & Loss Assessors

 

It has come to the notice of the Authority that corporate surveyors are utilizing unlicensed persons for carrying out insurance survey and loss assessment of claims below the amount specified in Regulation 12 of IRDAI (Insurance Surveyors and Loss Assessors) Regulations, 2015(hereafter referred as Surveyors Regulations).

The corporate surveyor has to ensure that once insurer has appointed him to conduct the survey and loss assessment, the claim is required to be assessed by a licensed surveyor and loss assessor authorized to survey for that particular department. This applies to all claims even where the insurers are utilizing Surveyors to assess losses below the “No Survey” Limits of Rs 50,000/- in case of motor and Rs. 100,000/- for property claims.    

All corporate surveyors, before undertaking any job of survey and loss assessment shall provide a list of all licensed surveyor and loss assessors (along with the authorized department) working in his firm to the insurer.

It shall be the responsibility of the insurer to ensure that before handing over surveyor and loss assessor job to the corporate surveyor, only those persons who are licensed in the relevant department are entrusted the job of survey and loss assessment. Under no circumstances can unlicensed surveyors be utilized.

The insurer shall have the duty to verify that the survey report is given by the licensed surveyor only. The insurer shall also get a confirmation in writing from the corporate surveyor that no unlicensed person is involved in the survey job. The confirmation needs to be provided in the form of a declaration along with survey report in respect of each survey and loss assessment.

All corporate surveyor entities are advised to provide list of all licensed surveyors working with them in the attached format on or before 10^th   October 2021.

Attention of insurers is also drawn to Regulation 21(2) of Surveyors Regulations as amended from time to time where by every insurer is required to monitor the performance of surveyors, including compliance with the code of conduct and the duties and responsibilities laid down in these regulations. It shall be the responsibility of the insurer to enquire into cases of violation of code of conduct brought to its notice, conduct the necessary enquiry and investigation and report wherever violation is established, to the Authority immediately.

 

This has approval of competent authority.

 

(Pankaj Kumar Tewari)

General Manager(Surveyors)

 

 

 

 

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[pradeep deshpande]

Dear sir,

Truly said above is the Great Example of Efforts put by some of IIISLA  Memberes. But what about the Efforts of  Elected Members?Where our Contributions are going ?Only on effortless Tours/Meeting/Court cases etc.

Regards

Pradeep Deshpande

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