The case of the missing billions: estimating losses to customers due to mis-sold life insurance policies

Monika Halan, Renuka Sane and Susan Thomas

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2014, vol. 17, issue 4, 285-302

Abstract: Regulation of retail finance has been the subject of policy interventions in several countries, including India. Much of the regulatory change in India has been carried out with little support of empirical evidence. This paper is motivated by questions of the evidence of losses due to mis-sales of financial products. It constructs two measures of the loss to customers due to mis-selling of life insurance policies. The first is calculated using the value of lapsed policies, and the second uses the persistence of premium payments. Both arrive at estimates of around USD 28 billion lost between 2004 and 2011.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2014.971797

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