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What Is Insurance? Insurance is a contract, represented by a policy, in which an individual or entity receives financial protection or reimbursement against losses from an insurance company. The company  pools clients' risks  to make payments more affordable for the insured. Insurance policies are used to  hedge  against the risk of financial losses, both big and small, that may result from damage to the insured or her property, or from liability for damage or injury caused to a third party. How Insurance Works There is a multitude of different types of insurance policies available, and virtually any individual or business can find an insurance company willing to insure them—for a price. The most common types of personal insurance policies are auto, health, homeowners, and life. Most individuals in the United States have at least one of these types of insurance, and car insurance is required by law. KEY TAKEAWAYS Insurance is a contract (policy) in which an insu...

I n the past one year, TCS signed three mega deals in the insurance totalling $4 billion in value, signalling a steady turnaround in the insurance platform. All the contracts had a component of absorbing some of clients' employees. "In these kind of deals, it is likely to have more in sourcing at first. As we build scale and capability in the geography the need to insource from deal could become less over a period of time," said K Krithivasan , President of the Banking and Financial Services Business Unit at TCS. "Early deals may have insourcing but successive deals may not." TCS deals of $2-billion-plus deal —its largest ever — with Transamerica, marked the Indian outsourcing leader’s entry into the highly specialised US third-party insurance administration business. "In general, the BFSI segment is slowing down investments in traditional outsourcing work, but increasing aggressively in emerging areas such as automation and digital. Hence this is more ...