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Insurance Contracts

(b) insurance against product liability, professional liability, civil
liability or legal expenses.

(c) life insurance and prepaid funeral plans (although death is
certain, it is uncertain when death will occur or, for some types
of life insurance, whether death will occur within the period
covered by the insurance).

(d) life-contingent annuities and pensions (ie contracts that provide
compensation for the uncertain future event—the survival of
the annuitant or pensioner—to assist the annuitant or pensioner
in maintaining a given standard of living, which would otherwise
be adversely affected by his or her survival).

(e) disability and medical cover.

(f) surety bonds, fidelity bonds, performance bonds and bid bonds
(ie contracts that provide compensation if another party fails to
perform a contractual obligation, for example an obligation to
construct a building).

(g) credit insurance that provides for specified payments to be made
to reimburse the holder for a loss it incurs because a specified
debtor fails to make payment when due under the original or
modified terms of a debt instrument. These contracts could
have various legal forms, such as that of a guarantee, some
types of letter of credit, a credit derivative default contract or
an insurance contract. However, although these contracts meet
the definition of an insurance contract, they also meet the
definition of a financial guarantee contract in Ind AS 39 and are
within the scope of Ind AS 107 and Ind AS 39, not this Indian
Accounting Standard (see paragraph 4(d)). Nevertheless, if an
issuer of financial guarantee contracts has previously asserted
explicitly that it regards such contracts as insurance contracts
and has used accounting applicable to insurance contracts, the
issuer may elect to apply either Ind AS 39 and Ind AS 107 or
this Standard to such financial guarantee contracts.

(h) product warranties. Product warranties issued by another party
for goods sold by a manufacturer, dealer or retailer are within
the scope of this Accounting Standard. However, product
warranties issued directly by a manufacturer, dealer or retailer
are outside its scope, because they are within the scope of Ind
AS 18 and Ind AS 37.

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