LAWS OF INSURANCE AND PRACTICE IN AFRICA


LAWS OF INSURANCE AND PRACTICE IN AFRICA

Company Secretaries have a pivot role to play in the Insurance Sector. A Company Secretary can  work as an act as a compliance officer in an Insurance Company and play an important role in ensuring compliance to complicated legal, regulatory and supervisory issues constantly, transcending various spheres of Insurance Company's operations. So, in order to build the capacity of Companies Secretaries to work as a compliance officer in Insurance Companies and to provide to supply to offer} them a specialized knowledge in Insurance laws and practice, New Syllabus Professional Program contains one  of the among the one of many} five elective papers titled ‘Insurance Law and Practice '. The students interested in thinking about enthusiastic about pursuing their career in Insurance sector may go for this subject. The syllabus and contents with this paper has bed enveloped in association of Insurance Institute of India, Mumbai.
An effort has been built to cover fully the syllabus prescribed for each module/subject. The presentation of topics may not always take exactly the same sequence as given in the syllabus. Candidates are likely to take note of all the most recent developments concerning the subjects covered in the syllabus
by talking about IRDA Circulars, Financial Dailies, Economic Journals, Latest Books and Publications on the subjects/topics concerned
Although due care has been taken in publishing this study material, yet the chance of errors,
omissions and/or discrepancies cannot be ruled out. This publication is released by having an
understanding that the Institute shall not lead to any errors, omissions and/or discrepancies
or any action taken in that behalf.
Should there be any discrepancy, error or omission noted in the research material, the Institute shall
be obliged if exactly the same are delivered to its notice for issue of corrigendum in the e-bulletin, `Student
Company Secretary '. In the event of any doubt, students may write to the Directorate of Academics in the Institute for clarification at academics@icsi.edu.
There's Open book examination with this Elective subject of Professional Programme. This is to inculcate and develop skills of creative thinking, problem solving and decision making amongst students of its Professional Programme and to assess their analytical ability, real understanding of knowledge of comprehension of facts and concepts and mastery, to simply recall replicate and reproduce concepts and principles in the examination.







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