ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Share Price

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited is the largest private sector nonlife insurer in India based on Gross Direct Premium Income. The Company offers its customers a comprehensive and welldiversified range of products, including Fire, Motor, Health, PA Travel, Crop, Marine, Engineering and Liability insurance, through multiple distribution channels. The key distribution channels of the Company include direct sales, individual agents, bank partners, other corporate agents, brokers, and online, through which the Company service its individual, corporate and government customers.ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited was incorporated on October 30, 2000 as a Public Limited Company. The Company obtained Regulatory approval to undertake General Insurance business on August 3, 2001 from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) and holds a valid certificate of registration.The Company started operations during the year 20002001. During the year 200304, it became the largest private sector general insurer in India. During the year 200506, the company crossed the mark of 1 million policies and crossed the receipt of Rs 1000 crore of Gross Direct Premium Income (GDPI). In 200910, the company settled more than 5 million claims. During the year 201314, the companys profit after tax crossed Rs 500 Cr. mark and the number of policies issued by the company crossed 10 million. During the year 201415, the Companys investment book size crossed Rs 10000 crore mark. During the year 201516, the company became the first general insurance company in India to issue subordinated debt. During the year 201617, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company crossed Rs 10000 crore GDPI mark. In September 2017, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited came out with an Initial Public Offer wherein ICICI Bank and FAL proposed to sell 31,761,478 Equity Shares and 54,485,709 Equity Shares constituting 7.00% and 12.00% of the Companys issued and paidup capital, to the public respectively. There was no fresh issue of shares from ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company. The shares of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company were listed on the bourses on 27 September 2017 and it became the first pure play general insurance company in India to list on the stock exchanges. On 5 April 2018, Ola, Indias leading and one of the worlds largest ridesharing companies, launched a comprehensive intrip insurance program for customers across India in partnership with Acko General Insurance Ltd and ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company, which provides benefits in cases of loss of baggage or laptops, missed flights, accidental medical expense, ambulance transportation cover, and much more. On 20 August 2018, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company announced that it has launched Indias first Artificial intelligence (AI) based technology to facilitate instant health insurance claims approval. As a result, the traditional cashless claim request which takes an average of 60 minutes of processing has been drastically brought down to a minute using AI.On 23 August 2018, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company announced that it has implemented host of initiatives to support the customers affected by Kerala floods. The company has written premium of Rs. 85.98 crs (primarily motor, property health insurance) during FY 201718 which comprises 0.7% of gross direct premium income (GDPI) during FY 201718 (1.57% of the GDPI for all nonlife insurance companies from Kerala State) and Rs. 19.24 crs during Q1 FY 201819 which comprises 0.51% of gross direct premium income (GDPI). As of now, the number of claims received are limited considering that the flood waters are yet to recede in the State of Kerala. The company has put in place a welldefined retention limit for each product segment which defines its maximum per risk and per event exposure to protect its balance sheet and reduce volatility of its earnings.On 17 September 2018, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company announced the launch of the industrys first application to facilitate speedier claim verification process. Currently, claim settlement cases that need to be verified takes from a day to more than a week in some cases. This time intensive process will be reduced drastically to a few hours with the app. The state of the art technology deployed in the app will also benefit the company as it will be able to identify incidents of fraud claim quickly, making the process more efficient and ensuring that genuine cases are resolved in a speedy manner. Further, the solution will integrate with the companys health claims management system that has inbuilt alerts to trigger suspect claims for verification.On 30th October, 2019, the Company entered into a business transfer agreement to acquire proprietary software, platforms and underlying intellectual property assets developed by Unbox Technologies Private Limited along with ancillary movable assets for housing the Software and employees for operations, maintenance and development of the Software for an aggregate consideration of Rs 2,248,500 thousands on a slump sale basis being managements estimate of fair value of the identifiable assets.The COVID19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. The pandemic has led to a significant impact on the Indian Financial markets and an overall decline in the economic activities all across the world. On 24 March 2020, the Union Government of India has announced a 21day lockdown, which was further extended by 19 days, across the country for containment of the pandemic.Gross Direct Premium Income (GDPI) of the Company stood at Rs 133.13 billion in FY2020 compared to Rs 144.88 billion in FY2019, a degrowth of 8.1%.Excluding crop segment, GDPI of the Company increased to Rs 133.02 billion in FY2020 compared to Rs 120.36 billion in FY2019, registering a growth of 10.5%.On January 20, 2021 the Company registered to undertake General Insurance business by IFSCA (International Financial Services Centers Authority) under Section 13 of the International Financial Services Centres Authority Act, 2019 as IFSC Insurance Office (IIO) at IFSC Gift City (Ahmedabad). The IIO commenced its operation from April 1, 2021.During year 202122, the Board of Directors of the Company at their Meeting held on August 21, 2020 had approved the Scheme of Arrangement among Bharti AXA General Insurance Company Limited and the Company and their respective shareholders and creditors for demerger of nonlife insurance business of erstwhile Bharti AXA General Insurance Company Limited into the Company which was completed and made effective from September 8, 2021 with the appointed date, April 1, 2020. Pursuant to Scheme becoming effective from said Date, the Board of Directors of the Company allotted equity shares of face value of Rs. 10/ each as a part consideration to the Shareholders of Bharti AXA, whereby the shareholding of ICICI Bank Limited reduced from 51.87% to 48.08% and accordingly, the Company ceased to be a subsidiary of ICICI Bank with effect from the date of allotment i.e. September 8, 2021. In 2022, the Company had a network of 283 branches and 908 Virtual Offices. During the year 2022, the Company has issued 29.3 million policies and settled over 2.3 million claims. The Gross Direct Premium income was Rs. 179.77 billion, translating into a market share of 8.1% among all nonlife insurers in India and 13.8% among privatesector nonlife insurers in India. As at March 31, 2022, Company had Rs. 387.86 billion in Total Investment Assets.In 2023, the Company had a network of 305 branches and 917 Virtual Offices. During the year 2023, the Company has issued 32.7 million policies and settled over 3.6 million claims. The Gross Direct Premium income was Rs. 210.25 billion, translating into a market share of 8.2% among all nonlife insurers in India and 15.9% among privatesector nonlife insurers in India. As at March 31, 2023, Company had Rs. 43.80 billion in Total Investment Assets.In 202324, ICICI Bank Limited had purchased shares of the Company, making ICICI Bank the Holding Company of the Company effective from 29 February, 2024. The Company had a network of 312 branches with 917 virtual offices. In 2024, Company has issued 36.2 million policies and honoured 2.9 million claims. The Gross Direct Premium Income (GDPI) of the nonlife insurance industry grew from Rs 2,569.12 billion in FY2023 to Rs 2,897.38 billion in FY2024, a growth of 12.8%. The market share of private players increased from 51.4% in FY2023 to 53.5% in FY2024.In 202425, the Company had a network of 328 branches and 992 virtual offices. During the year ended March 31, 2025, the Companys investment assets crossed Rs 500 billion to become the largest investment portfolio amongst private general insurance companies. As at March 31, 2025, the allocations towards government securities (including state development loans), corporate bonds and equity (including equity ETF) were 33.7%, 45.4% and 15.0%, respectively. The major milestone in FY25 was the launch of ICICI Lombard Siddhivinayak Metro Station brought to fore an auspicious and strategic acquisition marking ICICI Lombard an integral part. The Company has expanded its reach by opening 18 new branches across various locations and relocated 21 branches. The Gross Direct Premium Income (GDPI) of the Company was Rs 268.33 billion in FY25 as against Rs 247.76 billion in 2024.In 202526, Company had a network of 341 branches and 992 virtual offices. It issued 39.3 million policies and processed 3.4 million claims during the year 2026. Gross Written Premium (GWP) arrived at Rs 306.18 billion and nearly 3.4 million Claims have been processed in FY26. Gross Direct Premium Income increased to Rs 287.12 billion, with a growth of 7% for the full year. Profit After Tax (PAT) grew by 10.5% to Rs 27.72 billion in FY26. During FY2026, major product lines like retail health indemnity Including marquee Elevate offering products, Group Health and Liability lines were migrated to Artemis in Companys enterprise wide transformation. Company expanded its reach by opening 17 new branches across various locations and relocated 15 branches.