Karthika Insurance
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A Karthika advisor reviewing cover with a family at home
Retail & corporate advisory · Est. 1971

Anyone can sell you a policy. We stay for the claim.

Karthika Insurance places health, motor, marine, fire and liability cover through a network of trusted insurers — then handles the paperwork, the surveyor and the follow-up when you actually need it.

1971
Our story began
55+
Years in insurance
3
Generations of advisors
4
Offices across India
Where advice earns its keep

A claim is won on documents, not on sympathy

Our claims assistance centre runs the file for you — we know what each insurer asks for, and we get it right before it is submitted.

A Karthika advisor going through claim documents with a client
Claims assistance centre · Bengaluru

We sit on your side of the table — including when the assessment comes back short.

Claims desk · +91 96862 88715
One desk from intimation to settlement Incident → Settlement
1
Intimation
One call to our desk
2
Documents
Listed, checked, complete
3
Survey
We coordinate the surveyor
4
Assessment
Queries answered same day
5
Settlement
Contested if short
What we do

Three things, in this order

Understand the risk. Place the cover. Stand behind it at claim time.

01

Advisory

We start with your exposure, not with a product — then compare what the market will actually pay on.

Risk review for family or firm Sum insured & deductible advice Wording and exclusion checks Renewal audits
02

Placement

Cover placed through our network of trusted insurers, with the paperwork handled end to end.

Quote comparison across insurers Retail and group programmes Endorsements and additions Renewal reminders, on time
03

Claim support

A dedicated claims assistance centre in Bengaluru that advocates on your behalf.

Intimation and registration Document pack preparation Surveyor coordination Shortfall and rejection review
Who we serve

Two desks — retail and corporate — one advisor either way

Three generations of a family at home
Retail

Families & individuals

Health, motor, personal accident, travel and life — sized to what your family actually needs, reviewed every renewal, and handled personally when a claim comes.

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Two managers walking the floor of a small manufacturing unit
SME

Your business, insured properly

Fire, burglary, office protector, contractors all risk and workmen compensation.

Two executives talking outside a boardroom
Corporates

Employee benefits that hold up

Group health, group travel and group personal accident, with claim help for every employee.

A fleet manager and an advisor at a loading yard
Fleets & transport

Vehicles and cargo on the move

Motor fleet, goods and passenger carrying vehicles, marine and multi-modal transit.

A doctor reviewing an indemnity policy with an advisor
Professionals

Liability you can't afford to guess at

Doctors' indemnity, errors & omissions, directors & officers, general liability.

Cover we place

Six lines, for corporate and private

All placed and serviced by the same team you already speak to.

Motor Private · commercial · fleet

Cover against accident, theft and damage — private car, two-wheeler, goods and passenger carrying vehicles, and fleet programmes.

Health Individual · family · group

Indemnity and top-up health, critical illness, personal accident, travel — and the group equivalents for your employees.

Fire & SME Property · contents · people

Fire, burglary, office protector, contractors all risk and workmen compensation for the small and mid-sized business.

Marine Sea · air · land

Goods, cargo and hull cover in transit, including open covers and multi-modal transportation.

Liability Professional · corporate

Doctors' professional indemnity, errors & omissions, directors & officers and commercial general liability.

Everything else Specialty risk

Miscellaneous vehicles, event and specialty exposures — if it can be underwritten, we will find who writes it.

Our strength

A family practice, run on modern systems

The founders of KICPL and the Principal Officer of Karthika Insurance come from a family with over 45 years in insurance — spanning the most dynamic era of the industry's development in India.

Behind them is a young team, powered by current technology and kept up to date at all times.

Advisory skills95%
Technology-based backend88%
After-sales support100%
Claim assistance100%
Customer retention98%
Who we are

Fifty-five years of the same promise

Karthika Insurance was founded on 1 April 1971 by S. Ramakrishnan Nair — a small, dedicated practice placing life cover through LIC of India, built on expert guidance and risk management for individuals and businesses alike.

Mr. Nair carried the firm through the liberalisation and privatisation of Indian insurance, bringing together a collective of agents working with specific insurers — all committed to finding the right solution rather than the easy one.

Today it is a multi-line advisory serving the second and third generation of the families and businesses it started with, across four offices.

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How we got here
1 APRIL 1971
Life insurance advisory begins
S. Ramakrishnan Nair starts the practice, placing life cover through LIC of India.
1 APRIL 1998
General insurance added
Health, motor, fire, marine and liability advisory join the life practice.
1 APRIL 1999
The second generation
Mr. Unnikrishnan joins and extends the offering into financial planning.
TODAY
Advisory, placement and claims
Retail and corporate cover across four offices, with a dedicated claims assistance centre.
Where we are

Four offices, four people who answer their own phone

We started in Bengaluru and extended steadily across the country.

Corporate office · Bengaluru

No. 236, 6th Cross, 6th Main, MICO Layout,
BTM 2nd Stage, Bengaluru — 560076

R. Unnikrishnan · Sales+91 98451 88715unni@kicpl.com
Claims assistance centre · Bengaluru

No. 61, 2nd Floor, 5th Main Road, Bank Officers Layout,
Narayanagara 2nd Block, Off Kanakapura Main Road — 560062

R. Harikrishnan · Claims+91 96862 88715hari@kione.in
North centre · Delhi

#4, 3rd Floor, Tower-A, Gem Premier Heights, Kishangarh,
Near ESI Dispensary, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi — 110070

Jayakrishnan Chandran · Sales+91 91001 0746jay@karthikainsurance.com
South centre · Kerala

#401/B, "Adwaitham", Manjoor P.O,
Kottayam (District), Kerala — 686603

Gopikrishnan Chandran · Sales+91 95441 00270gopi@kione.in
Careers

Be part of the team

2 open roles · Head office, India
012 persons · full time

Business Development Manager

Generate, contact, present to and follow up with prospects — keeping the product transparent and collecting everything needed to complete the purchase, plus retention of existing accounts.

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023 persons · full time

Consulting Manager

Record, attend to and action customer queries across every channel, and support the business development team through the full prospect and renewal cycle.

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