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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HomeProductsContractor's All Risk
Specialised Cover

Contractor's All Risk Insurance

All-risk insurance for construction and civil engineering projects covering physical loss to the contract works, contractor's plant and equipment, and third-party liability, from ground-breaking to the end of the defects liability period. Structured to satisfy both client contract requirements and project finance loan covenants.

Coverage at a Glance
Contract Works

Physical loss to the permanent and temporary structure

Contractor's Plant

Construction machinery and equipment on site

Third-Party Liability

Bodily injury and property damage to third parties

Maintenance Period

Cover extended through the defects liability period

All-RiskBasis
Contract Works+ Plant Cover
TPLIncluded
IRDAICompliant
Coverage

What Your Policy Covers

A structured placement designed to close every material gap in your risk exposure, not a standard policy sold off the shelf.

Contract Works, Section I
All-risk cover for physical loss or damage to the permanent works, temporary works and materials on site from any sudden and unforeseen cause, fire, storm, flood, theft, collapse and subsidence.
Contractor's Plant & Machinery, Section II
Covers loss or damage to construction machinery and equipment brought to site, excavators, cranes, compactors, scaffolding and hand tools, against accidental damage and breakdown.
Third-Party Liability, Section III
Legal liability for bodily injury to third parties or damage to their property arising from the construction operations, including adjacent property and utility damage.
Natural Perils
Specific cover for flood, storm, earthquake and landslide, extended for projects in seismic or flood-risk zones with appropriate sum-insured adjustments.
Defects Liability Period
An optional extension maintaining cover through the post-completion maintenance period specified in the construction contract for defects discovered after handover.
Delay in Start-Up
Optional cover for financial losses suffered by the project owner following a delay in commercial operation caused by an insured physical loss event during construction.
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Our Approach

All-Risk Cover That Holds Up When a Project Goes Wrong

CAR insurance is written on an all-risk basis, cover applies unless the loss is specifically excluded. This is fundamentally different from a named-perils policy, where proving the cause of loss is your problem. In construction, where the cause of a collapse or flood event is routinely disputed, all-risk cover is the only defensible structure.

We review the construction contract, Bill of Quantities and project timeline before approaching insurers, the policy value, plant schedule and liability limit must reflect the specific project, not a generic estimate.
For projects with multiple sub-contractors, we structure the CAR policy to cover all parties' insurable interests under a single document, eliminating the gaps that arise when each sub-contractor places their own cover.
We confirm that the policy wording satisfies the insurance clauses in your construction contract and any loan covenant requirements from the project finance lender, before inception, not after a claim.
Who Needs This

Businesses That Carry This Risk

If your operations create the exposures described below, this cover belongs in your insurance programme.

01
Civil & Building Contractors
Main contractors require CAR to protect their investment in labour and materials and to satisfy the insurance obligations specified in their client contract.
02
Real Estate Developers
Property developers carrying construction risk on their own account need owner's interest cover for the contract value alongside third-party liability protection.
03
Infrastructure Projects
Road, bridge, tunnel and utility construction projects require specialist CAR cover for large-scale civil engineering operations in challenging site environments.
04
Project Finance Lenders
Banks and NBFCs lending against construction projects require CAR as a loan covenant condition, with the lender named as additional insured and loss payee.
05
EPC & Turnkey Contractors
Engineering, Procurement and Construction contractors for industrial plant, power generation and process facilities require CAR with erection all-risk extensions.
06
Sub-Contractors
Sub-contractors whose own plant and liability are not covered by the main contractor's CAR policy need standalone cover for the duration of their engagement on site.
How We Work

From Brief to Bound Cover

Three steps from your first conversation to a policy that is correctly structured and competitively priced.

01
Project Risk Review
We review the contract documents, project schedule, site location, construction methodology and sub-contractor structure to prepare the CAR policy specification.
02
Policy Placement
We approach engineering and construction insurers, negotiate all-risk terms with appropriate extensions, and confirm the wording satisfies contract and lender requirements before binding.
03
Claims & Project Support
On a loss, we immediately notify the insurer, appoint a loss adjuster with construction expertise and manage the claim through to settlement without disrupting the project programme.
Key Benefits

Why Clients Place This Cover Through Us

All-Risk Policy Basis
CAR is an all-risk policy, cover applies to every loss unless specifically excluded. This eliminates the burden of proving the specific cause of a loss that is common in named-perils policies.
Contract Wording Compliance
We review the insurance schedule in your construction contract and confirm the policy wording satisfies every obligation before the policy is bound.
Plant Schedule Management
We maintain the contractor's plant schedule throughout the project as equipment moves on and off site, ensuring no gaps in coverage during the build period.
Defects Liability Extension
We extend cover through the contractual defects liability period as standard, protecting against insured losses discovered after practical completion but before the final certificate.
FAQ

Common Questions

Either party can place the CAR policy, and it covers all parties' insurable interests. In practice, the main contractor typically places it and includes the project owner as a joint insured. The construction contract will specify which party carries the insurance obligation.
Existing structures on the construction site are excluded from standard contract works cover unless specifically included as 'surrounding property.' We include a surrounding property section with an agreed limit for projects where adjacent structure damage is a realistic exposure.
The contract value is the full reinstatement cost of the project, labour, materials, contractor's overhead and profit. It is not the client's budget or the land value. Under-valuing the contract sum creates proportional under-insurance that reduces every claim payment.
Yes, subject to standard security conditions, typically requiring the site to be secured when unattended. Theft of mobile construction equipment driven off-site may be subject to separate conditions, and we confirm these clearly at placement.
The defects liability period (or maintenance period) is the period after practical completion during which the contractor is obliged to remedy defects. The CAR defects liability extension covers insured damage to the works discovered during this period, not the cost of remedying defects, but the damage the defect causes.

Construction insurance that the project contract and the lender will both accept.

CAR policy wording disputes at claims time are almost always traced to inadequate review at placement. Speak to us first.

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