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.

Existing policyholder with a loss? Report a claim and a specialist responds within 48 hours.

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Home Products Plant & Machinery Insurance
Specialised Cover

Plant & Machinery Insurance

Machinery breakdown and all-risks insurance for industrial plant, production line equipment and engineering machinery. Covers sudden and unforeseen mechanical or electrical failure, accidental external damage and the consequential loss of production during the repair period, placed at reinstatement values to eliminate depreciation disputes.

Coverage at a Glance
Machinery Breakdown

Sudden and unforeseen mechanical or electrical failure

Accidental External Damage

Fire, flood, impact and operator negligence

Loss of Profits

Revenue loss during machinery downtime

Expediting Expenses

Emergency overtime and express freight for fast repair

Breakdown & All-Risk Cover
BI Extension Available
Reinstatement Value Basis
IRDAI Compliant
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.

Machinery Breakdown
Covers the cost of repairing or replacing plant and machinery following sudden and unforeseen physical breakdown due to mechanical defect, electrical fault, centrifugal force, short circuit or operator negligence.
Accidental External Damage
Covers damage to machinery caused by external factors including fire, explosion, flood, impact from falling objects, vehicle collision and malicious damage, perils that may also be covered under a separate fire policy.
Machinery Loss of Profits
An optional extension covering loss of gross profit during the period your production is interrupted as a direct result of an insured machinery breakdown event, for the agreed indemnity period.
Deterioration of Stocks
Covers deterioration of perishable goods in refrigerated storage or cold chain equipment following a breakdown of the refrigeration or cold storage machinery.
Expediting Expenses
Covers additional costs, emergency overtime, express airfreight and special transport, incurred specifically to restore the machinery to working condition faster than would otherwise be possible.
Third-Party Liability
Covers legal liability for bodily injury or property damage caused to third parties as a direct result of the breakdown or malfunction of your machinery.
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Our Approach

A Single Breakdown Can Cost Far More Than the Repair

The direct cost of repairing a failed machine is rarely the largest financial consequence. Lost production, delayed customer orders, perishable stock losses and contractual penalty exposure typically dwarf the repair bill. We structure machinery insurance to cover the full financial impact, not just the workshop invoice.

We review your machinery schedule, condition, maintenance records and production interdependencies before approaching engineering insurers, risk quality directly determines the terms available.
We negotiate reinstatement value cover for critical plant items, eliminating depreciation deductions at claims time and ensuring you receive the actual cost of repair or replacement.
We size the Business Interruption sum insured and indemnity period to reflect your actual revenue output and realistic repair timelines, most machinery BI programmes are significantly under-sized.
Who Needs This

Businesses That Carry This Risk

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

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Manufacturing Plants
Factories and production lines where machinery breakdown causes immediate production stoppage and cascading revenue loss.
02
Food & Beverage Processing
Processors with refrigeration, packaging and processing equipment where breakdown also triggers stock deterioration and supply chain disruption.
03
Textile & Garment Industry
Spinning, weaving and finishing machinery in textile mills where prolonged downtime affects delivery schedules and export commitments.
04
Printing & Publishing
High-value offset and digital printing presses where breakdown has both repair cost and order fulfilment consequences.
05
Engineering Workshops
CNC machining centres, lathes and press tools in precision engineering that require all-risk cover for accidental and breakdown damage.
06
Utilities & Infrastructure
Power generation equipment, pumping stations and process plant in utilities and infrastructure where breakdown has operational and regulatory consequences.
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
Machinery Risk Assessment
We conduct a site visit to review your equipment schedule, condition, maintenance programme and production interdependency before preparing a risk submission for the relevant insurers.
02
Policy Placement & Valuation
We work with engineering insurers to obtain machinery breakdown and all-risk quotations on a reinstatement value basis, with agreed values for critical items to remove depreciation disputes.
03
Claims & Engineering Support
On a breakdown, we co-ordinate the insurer's engineering surveyor, challenge undervalued repair estimates and manage the loss of profits assessment through to final settlement.
Key Benefits

Why Clients Place This Cover Through Us

Reinstatement Value Cover
We negotiate new-for-old reinstatement cover for critical machines, eliminating the age-related depreciation deductions that reduce standard machinery claims materially.
Business Interruption Sizing
We model the revenue impact of your worst-case breakdown scenario to set BI cover correctly, the most commonly under-sized section of any machinery insurance programme.
Engineering Claims Expertise
Our claims team includes engineering specialists who can challenge surveyors' repair cost assessments and ensure that the full, fair cost of restoration is recovered.
Maintenance Integration
We incorporate your maintenance programme into the policy structure, documenting compliance with insurer conditions and preventing claim repudiations based on alleged maintenance failures.
FAQ

Common Questions

Fire insurance covers machinery damaged by fire, explosion, lightning and allied perils. Machinery breakdown insurance covers internal failure events, mechanical fracture, electrical short circuit, operator error, which are excluded from fire policies. Most manufacturers need both.
No. Machinery breakdown insurance covers sudden and unforeseen physical damage. Gradual deterioration, wear and tear, rust, corrosion and design defects are excluded. A sudden breakdown event caused by a latent defect is typically covered; the deterioration leading to it is not.
Yes, subject to inspection and typically a higher deductible for aged components. Older machinery may carry specific exclusions or conditions relating to identified worn components. We manage this through a pre-inspection survey with the insurer, agreed in advance of placement.
The Loss of Profits (or Machinery BI) extension covers gross profit lost during the period your production is reduced or stopped as a direct result of an insured breakdown. The sum insured should be based on your annual gross profit and the indemnity period on your realistic maximum repair duration.
No. Routine maintenance, servicing, cleaning and inspection are operational costs and are specifically excluded. The policy covers the unexpected, the sudden, unforeseen event that neither you nor your engineers could have anticipated.

Machinery insurance that covers the breakdown and what it costs your business.

Repair cost cover alone is rarely sufficient. Speak to us about a programme that reflects your actual operational risk.

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