Private sector non-life insurance major Future Generali India Insurance is betting big on health segment and plans to launch new products by early FY10, a top company official said.
"We are very bullish on health insurance and plan to scale up our operations here. We will be launching a few health insurance products after March 2009," Future Generali Managing Director and CEO Deepak Sood told PTI here.
The company, which for all practical purposes began its business from April this year, plans to scale up distribution network and headcount, he said.
On health insurance, Sood said the company has already sold over 5,000 policies while in group health, it has garnered a healthy clientele, including biggies such as General Motors and Coca Cola.
"We have been very selective in group health," Sood said.
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Margins were squeezed presently but going forward, he expected prices to harden and hence better margins.
The company's strategy in this segment was to focus on product innovation and service delivery.
"We are enhancing our distribution network for this," Sood said. The company's differentiator in this segment was its product-pricing which varied according to geography.
"We have different pricing in different places to meet customers' needs," Sood said.
"Going by our performance so far, we should break-even by 2012-13," he said.
Notwithstanding the general downbeat economic climate, Future Generali was on track to achieve its targets, Sood claimed, adding "we will be upping our headcount by 350-400 by end-March from the present 650."
The company, a joint venture between retail giant Future Group and Italy's Generali Group, is targeting a gross premium return of Rs 200 crore by FY09.
This figure currently stands at Rs 118 crore and it has so far sold 1.2-lakh policies, Sood said.
It also plans to scale-up pan-India office network to 97 by end-January from the present 41 offices.
"We are present now in 30 cities; by end-January, we will have a footprint in 80 cities," he said.