Oriental Insurance Company is a general insurance company completely owned by the Government of India. The company was a unit of LIC of India for 20 odd years from 1956 to 1973 but post restructuring of the insurance businesses in India, the Government of India has been the sole owner.
Oriental Insurance can be summarised by their tag line “Prithvi, Agni, Jal, Akash, Sab ki Suraksha Hamare pass". The company has insurance solutions for every needs of Indians and has a large network of offices and employees – more than 900 offices and 15,000 employees across India. Oriental Insurance also specialises insuring large units and plants which require highly skilled and experienced professionals as the risk runs into large sums of money.
Shri A. V. Girija Kumar is the Chairman and Managing Director of Oriental Insurance Company.