Trusted Insurance Advisors & Risk Management

Insurance advisory
for decisions that matter.

Risk understood precisely. Cover negotiated properly. Claims defended fully.

Twenty-two years advising boards, business owners and families across India on which risks to retain, which to transfer and how to hold insurers to both. Straight advice, accountable to clients.

22+Years of Advisory Experience
74,000+Corporate & Individual Clients1
18+Lines of Cover
₹18,930 Cr+Assets Insured2
48hClaims Response, Guaranteed3

We work with India's leading IRDAI-registered insurers

ICICI LombardBajaj General InsuranceHDFC ERGOTata AIGSBI GeneralIFFCO TokioIndusInd General Insurance (formerly Reliance General)Cholamandalam MSFuture GeneraliZurich Kotak General InsuranceUniversal Sompo General InsuranceLiberty General InsuranceSBI LifeHDFC LifeICICI PrudentialAxis Max LifeAditya Birla Sun LifeTata AIA Life InsuranceICICI LombardBajaj General InsuranceHDFC ERGOTata AIGSBI GeneralIFFCO TokioIndusInd General Insurance (formerly Reliance General)Cholamandalam MSFuture GeneraliZurich Kotak General InsuranceUniversal Sompo General InsuranceLiberty General InsuranceSBI LifeHDFC LifeICICI PrudentialAxis Max LifeAditya Birla Sun LifeTata AIA Life Insurance
Our Products

Eighteen lines of cover.
One advisor for all of them.

Twelve commercial lines for businesses, six for individuals and families. Every recommendation runs through the same disciplines: comparison across India's leading insurers, written recommendation, documented audit trail.

Insurance products

The right cover, correctly placed.

Across India's leading IRDAI-registered insurers, each policy structured against your actual exposure.

Marine Insurance
Structured on ICC-A/B/C clauses with full warehouse-to-warehouse protection for bulk commodities, project cargo and high-value consignments.
Inland Transit Import (CIF / CIP) Export (CIF / CIP)
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Fire & Burglary
Covers loss or damage to buildings, plant, machinery, stock and contents caused by fire, lightning, explosion, flood, burglary and allied perils as specified under the Standard Fire and Special Perils Policy.
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Workmen Compensation
Statutory cover under the Employees' Compensation Act, 1923. Protects employers against legal liability arising from workplace death, permanent or temporary disability and medical expenses of workers.
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Group Coverage
Consolidated employee benefits programmes structured to comply with CTC requirements, ESIC exemption thresholds and sector-specific mandates. Placed on a floater or individual basis.
Group Medical Coverage Group Personal Accident Group Term Life Insurance
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Commercial Vehicle
Fleet and single-vehicle policies for goods carriers, passenger vehicles, taxis, tankers and construction equipment. Includes third-party liability, own damage and IMT endorsements.
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Public Liability
Covers legal liability arising from third-party bodily injury or property damage occurring at or from your business premises. Essential for manufacturers, retailers and public-facing operations.
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Fidelity Insurance
Protection against direct financial loss from employee fraud, embezzlement, theft of cash or stock and forgery. Placed on a named-employee, position or blanket basis depending on the size of the workforce and the cash exposure.
Named Employees Position Basis Blanket Cover
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Cyber Insurance
Protects against data breach costs, ransomware extortion, regulatory penalties, business interruption and third-party liability arising from a cyber incident or network security failure.
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Office Package Policy
All-in-one cover for office premises: fire and allied perils, burglary, electronic equipment, money in transit, fidelity guarantee and public liability under a single co-ordinated policy.
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Plant & Machinery
Machinery breakdown insurance covering sudden and unforeseen physical damage to plant, machinery and electrical/mechanical equipment including boilers and pressure vessels.
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Contractor's All Risk
Project-specific cover for civil engineering and building construction works, including material damage to the contract works, third-party liability and construction equipment.
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Shopkeeper Policy
A composite retail policy covering stock in trade, fire and burglary, money in till, plate glass, fidelity guarantee, personal accident for the owner and public liability.
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Not sure which cover applies?
Our advisors will assess your specific risk profile and recommend the right combination across multiple lines.
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Health Insurance
Individual and family floater mediclaim plans, critical illness cover, super top-up policies and OPD benefit riders. We compare plans across all major health insurers and match the right structure to your age, medical history and budget.
Individual & Family Floater Critical Illness Cover Super Top-Up Plans
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Term Life Insurance
Pure income-replacement cover for your dependants with no investment component. Provides a lump-sum death benefit at highly competitive premiums. We help size the cover correctly, typically 10-15× your annual income.
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Motor Insurance
Comprehensive own-damage and mandatory third-party liability cover for private cars, two-wheelers and SUVs. Includes zero-depreciation, return-to-invoice and engine-protect add-ons placed with the most competitive insurer for your vehicle profile.
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Personal Accident
Fixed-benefit cover paying a lump sum on accidental death or permanent disability and a daily hospital cash allowance for accidental hospitalisation. Critical supplement to any health plan.
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Critical Illness Cover
A lump-sum payout on first diagnosis of 36+ specified conditions including cancer, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure and organ transplants. Designed to replace lost income and cover treatment costs not reimbursed under a mediclaim plan.
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Home Insurance
Covers the structure and contents of your home against fire, flood, earthquake, burglary and accidental damage. Includes cover for valuables, electronic appliances and personal liability, all under a single policy.
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Not finding the cover you need? Tell us your exposure, we will source it from the wider market or, if there is no acceptable terms available, tell you so plainly.

Industries We Serve

Sector-Specific Expertise

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Twenty-four sectors, each with its own exposure map, claim patterns and typical programme. Open yours.

Your sector not listed? Tell us what you do, we will assess whether we are the right adviser for your risk profile and decline the engagement if we are not.

What worries you?

The ten risks we see most.
Each one mapped to the cover that responds.

Another way in: not by product or industry, but by the risk you actually lose sleep over. Each card opens a deep-dive.

How we judge insurers

Claim settlement, in numbers.

Recommendations should survive contact with a claim. How India's general insurers actually pay, refreshed daily from our data desk.

Free policy review

Upload your policy.
Get a written gap analysis.

No charge, no obligation. We read what you have, compare it against current market wording and your sector's actual claim activity, and send you a one-page summary of what is well-placed, what is mis-sized, and what is missing.

  • Sum-insured adequacy vs current reinstatement cost
  • Sub-limit and exclusion clauses flagged
  • Sector-specific gaps you might not know about
  • Renewal-time benchmarking against current market terms

Confidential. We treat your policy with the same care and discretion as every client engagement. The review is delivered within 5 business days.

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A senior advisor will read your policy and send a one-page gap analysis to your email within five business days. Here is the kind of finding it will surface, drawn from a recent review for a similar engagement:

Sample finding · sector match: your sector
  • Under-insuredBuilding sum insured set at 2018 reinstatement cost. Likely 28–40% short of today's rebuilding value.
  • Sub-limitRoom-rent cap on group health limits ICU recovery in non-network metros. Common claim-dispute source.
  • MissingNo standalone cyber policy. Existing office package excludes cyber events explicitly.
  • Well-placedWorkmen Compensation is at current EC Act limits and includes contract-labour endorsement.
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Instant check with Raksha AI

Paste your policy wording or schedule and Raksha AI reads it instantly: what it covers, the limits, and the exclusions and gaps to watch. For your privacy, leave out personal details such as your name or policy number.

Informational summary only, not a coverage or claims decision. Raksha AI reads only what you paste, and the text is not stored. For a full written review, an advisor confirms it.

Plan with precision

Know your numbers before you buy.

Seven calculations our advisors run every day, and a reminder service that does the remembering for you. They update as you type. Indicative, not a quotation: a formal recommendation follows underwriting, but these put you in the right ballpark in seconds.

Enter today's replacement values — not book values — to see the sum insured a fire policy should carry, and what under-insurance would do to a claim under the average clause.

These are indicative estimates from standard advisory formulas, not a quotation or a guarantee of insurability. Your actual cover depends on underwriting, health, occupation and the policy wording. An advisor will refine them with you.

About Rakshit Financial Services

Cover That Fits.
Service That Stays.

Rakshit Financial Services is a licensed insurance advisory firm covering marine, property, liability and personal insurance across India. We take the time to understand your business, assess the risks that actually matter, and arrange cover from India's leading insurers that matches your real exposure: sums insured that reflect true values at risk, deductibles your balance sheet can absorb and wordings that stand up at claim time.

We are not in the business of selling policies. We are in the business of managing risk. That distinction shapes every conversation we have, every policy we arrange and every claim we handle.

"Our measure of success is not the number of policies we place. It is how well our clients are protected when something goes wrong."
Insight/ Integrity/ Advocacy
The six disciplines, one accountable advisor
Risk Assessment

Structured evaluation of operational, financial and liability exposures, identifying gaps, over-insurance and uninsured risks before any policy is arranged.

Quotation & Placement

Clear guidance across India's leading insurers to secure competitive quotations, compare terms and arrange cover on favourable terms, without compromise on scope.

Policy Management & Renewal

Ongoing portfolio management with renewal tracking, mid-term endorsements, sum-insured reviews and proactive alerts so nothing lapses or goes unnoticed.

Claims Management & Advocacy

Dedicated claims support from FNOL through to settlement, surveyor co-ordination, documentation preparation, insurer liaison and escalation where claims are delayed or disputed.

Insurance Programme Design

For groups with multiple entities, locations or lines, consolidated programmes with aligned renewal dates, co-ordinated cover and a single point of accountability.

Personal Insurance Planning

A structured review of your personal health, life, accident and asset cover, recommending the right combination across individual, family floater and investment-linked products.

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Your interests,
at every step.

We are committed to giving every client clear, considered guidance. The advice we give, the cover we arrange and the way we handle your claims are all shaped by your needs and your priorities.

This is not incidental to how we operate. It is the foundation of every recommendation we make.

IRDAI Registered. Committed to Every Client

“The work is done in the recommendation memo, in the comparison schedule, in the surveyor brief. The signature on the policy is the easy part.”

A practice principle, RFS
Perspective

What we are reading
and writing about now.

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Briefing March 2026

What the DPDPA enforcement timeline means for your cyber insurance programme

Mandatory breach notification rules under the Data Protection Board are likely to land in 2026. The premium implications, and the cover most policies still exclude, start now.

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Report 2026 Annual

India marine cargo: adequacy review across the 2025 monsoon claims cycle

Claims paid against declared values, broken down by trade route, warehouse-to-warehouse exposure and the recurring documentation gaps that reduce settlements.

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Perspective April 2026

Five exposures most Indian SMEs are still carrying uninsured

Public liability, cyber, key person, business-interruption overhang and contractor liability, and why each one becomes business-ending more often than owners expect.

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Quarterly briefing
The renewal-cycle signals worth knowing.
One email per quarter. Sector premium movement, regulatory recalibration and the placement choices clients are making. Unsubscribe in one click.
Plain-language answers

Questions you might be
asking before you call us.

What makes RFS different?

Many providers simply sell policies. We assess your risk first and arrange cover second. That shows up in three concrete ways: a recommendation matched to your actual exposure, sector-specific policy wording for industries like mining, chemicals and hospitality, and active claims support that does not end once the policy is issued.

What is the difference between using an advisor and going direct?

Going direct to an insurer leaves you to interpret policy language and handle claims on your own. Working with an experienced advisor like RFS means cover matched to your actual risk, guidance across leading insurers' products, and someone who stays engaged through renewals and claims. That difference matters most when something goes wrong.

How does RFS get paid, and does it influence the advice?

Our recommendations are guided by your risk and your needs, not by sales targets. We are glad to walk you through the options we considered and why we recommended what we did, and where you ask us to, we will document that comparison in full.

What happens if I already have policies in place elsewhere?

We can review your existing programme without any obligation to move it. The output is a written report flagging coverage gaps, redundancies, sub-limit risks and renewal opportunities - the same document we would prepare for an internal audit. If the existing arrangement is sound, we will say so. Where it is not, you decide what to do with the information.

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Whether you are reviewing an existing programme, exploring new cover or simply unsure whether your policies are adequate, we will give you a straight answer. No obligations, no sales pitch.

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Home Glossary
Plain-language reference

Insurance terms, decoded.

Forty of the terms that come up most often in Indian commercial insurance, written in plain language. Bookmark this page and link to a specific term in any client conversation.

A
Average Clause
A property-policy provision that reduces a claim proportionally if the sum insured is below the actual value at risk (the under-insurance penalty). The most common cause of under-paid property claims in India.
B
Bailee's Liability
Cover for goods held by the insured on behalf of others (warehouse customers, freight in transit, cars in a service centre). Distinct from cover for the insured's own property.
Business Interruption (BI)
Cover for lost revenue and increased operating costs during the period the business cannot operate as normal due to an insured event. Sized against your operating margin and realistic recovery period.
C
CAR / EAR
Contractor's All Risk and Erection All Risk. Project-specific insurance for construction and equipment-installation works. Cover follows the project, not the contractor or the client.
Cashless Network
Hospitals or workshops where the insurer settles bills directly with the provider, removing the need for the policyholder to pay upfront and claim reimbursement.
CIF / CIP
Incoterms used in international trade. CIF (Cost, Insurance, Freight) applies to sea transport; CIP (Carriage and Insurance Paid To) applies to any mode. Both make the seller responsible for arranging marine cover.
Co-Insurance
Two or more insurers jointly underwriting a single risk, each taking a percentage share. Common in large industrial risks and reinsurance-backed placements.
Co-Payment
A percentage of every claim the insured shares with the insurer. Common in senior-citizen and pre-existing-condition health cover.
D
D&O Liability
Directors and Officers liability cover. Pays defence costs and settlements for claims arising from the conduct of named directors and senior officers. Increasingly required by listed and pre-IPO entities.
Data Fiduciary
Under the DPDPA, any organisation that determines the purpose and means of processing personal data. Carries the primary regulatory and statutory liability for breach events.
Deductible / Excess
The portion of every claim the insured pays before the insurer's cover begins. Higher deductibles reduce premium but transfer more risk to the policyholder.
Discovery Period
The window after a policy expires or an employee leaves during which losses can still be reported under fidelity, PI or D&O covers. Critical wording in long-tail liability claims.
DPDPA
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Creates mandatory breach-notification obligations and statutory penalties for data fiduciaries in India. The trigger for cyber-cover purchase across most Indian SMEs.
E
EC Act / Employees' Compensation Act, 1923
The Indian statute that creates strict employer liability for workplace death, disability and medical expenses of workers. Cover is structured against the statutory schedule and is required wherever there are employees.
ESIC Exemption
Permission for an employer to opt out of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation scheme by demonstrating equivalent or better private group health cover. The exemption requires specific cover structure including spouse and dependent children.
Excess of Loss / Layered Programme
A programme structure where multiple insurers underwrite different layers of cover. Common at large sums insured where no single insurer takes the full exposure.
F
Fidelity Guarantee
Cover for direct financial loss caused by employee fraud, dishonesty, embezzlement or theft. Placed on named-employee, position or blanket basis depending on workforce size.
FNOL
First Notification of Loss, the initial report from a policyholder to the insurer that an event has occurred. The timing of FNOL affects claim eligibility and indemnity period start.
FOB / EXW
Incoterms where the buyer takes responsibility for arranging insurance from the point of dispatch. Sellers under FOB or EXW typically need only inland cover up to the named delivery point.
G
Group Floater
A family health insurance structure where one sum insured is shared across all covered family members. Cheaper than individual covers but risks exhausting the limit on a single major claim.
H
Hazardous Substance Cover (PLI Act)
Mandatory public liability insurance under the Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 for businesses handling hazardous substances above threshold quantities.
I
ICC-A / ICC-B / ICC-C Clauses
Institute Cargo Clauses. ICC-A is all-risk; ICC-B and ICC-C are named-perils covers with progressively narrower scope. For export marine, ICC-A is the default unless the buyer specifies otherwise.
IDV (Insured Declared Value)
The market value of a motor vehicle at the start of the policy period, used as the cap on payout in case of total loss or theft. Set against current market depreciation, not at the lowest defensible figure.
Indemnity Limit
The total amount of liability cover under a public, product or professional indemnity policy. Should be benchmarked against your sector's realistic worst-case claim, not against tender minimums.
Indemnity Period
The maximum length of time BI cover responds, typically 6, 12 or 18 months. Should match the realistic timeline for restoring full operations after a major property loss.
L
Loss of Profits
An alternative phrasing for business interruption, often used in marine and machinery breakdown contexts. The underwriting basis is gross profit, not just revenue.
N
No-Claim Bonus (NCB)
A discount on renewal premium for claim-free years. Builds up to 50% over five years on motor insurance and to 100%+ on health insurance via sum-insured increase.
O
Open Cover Policy
A marine policy structure for clients with regular shipments. One annual policy covers all transit within scope, with monthly value declarations replacing per-consignment paperwork.
P
Portability (Health)
The IRDAI right to switch health insurers at renewal while retaining waiting-period credits for pre-existing conditions. Must be requested 45 days before renewal.
Pre-Existing Condition (PED)
Any disease, illness or injury diagnosed within a defined period (usually 48 months) before the policy commencement. Subject to specific waiting periods that vary by insurer.
Product Liability
Liability cover for injury or damage caused by products manufactured, sold or supplied by the insured after they have left the insured's premises. Long-tail by nature.
Professional Indemnity (PI)
Cover for service-delivery errors, defective advice, faulty design, miscalculation. Long-tail discovery patterns mean claims can surface years after the engagement closes.
Public Liability
Legal liability cover for bodily injury to third parties (visitors, customers, passers-by) and damage to their property occurring at or from your business operations.
R
Reinstatement Cost Cover
A property-cover basis that pays the cost of replacing with new (or equivalent new) rather than the depreciated value of the original asset. Now standard in modern policies.
Reinstatement Value
The cost of restoring a damaged asset to its original condition, including labour, materials and contractor overhead. Property cover sized at reinstatement value avoids the depreciation-deduction trap at claims time.
RERA
Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016. Mandates defects-liability cover for registered developers and creates enforceable consumer remedies. Reshapes the under-construction insurance market.
Retroactive Date
Under claims-made policies (PI, D&O, cyber), the earliest date from which incidents are eligible for cover. Setting this correctly at placement avoids unintended gaps.
S
Sub-limit
A cap inside a policy that limits payout for a specific category (e.g. room-rent in group health, fire damage to electrical equipment). The most common source of claim disputes in Indian commercial insurance.
Sum Insured
The maximum amount an insurer will pay on a claim. Setting this against current reinstatement cost, not historic invoice value, is the single most-overlooked placement decision.
Survey & Surveyor
An IRDAI-licensed surveyor inspects and assesses damage on a claim above a threshold value (typically ₹20,000+). The surveyor's report drives the settlement amount.
T
TPA (Third-Party Administrator)
An entity that administers health insurance claims and cashless networks on behalf of the insurer. The point of escalation when cashless requests are denied.

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