Kotak Mahindra General Insurance

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Kotak General Insurance
Type Subsidiary
Industry Financial service
Founded2015
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Key people
Suresh Agarwal (MD & CEO) [1]
Products General insurance
Vehicle insurance
Health insurance
Home insurance
Number of employees
793 (as on September 2020) [2]
Parent Kotak Mahindra Bank
Website www.kotakgeneral.com

Kotak General Insurance Company Ltd. is a general insurance company headquartered in Mumbai. It offers non-life insurance products like motor, health, home and others. [3]

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History

Kotak General Insurance received the license to conduct general insurance business in India from the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI) in April 2015. [4]

Key persons

Products and services

Kotak General Insurance provides various general insurance policies in India which are listed below-

It has a network of 4000+ network hospitals

Expansion since incorporation

In April 2015, Kotak General Insurance received the license to start the business and since then it has a national footprint of 19 branches spread across India as in September 2020 [5]

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