My LIC agent has left. Who services my policy now?
Agents retire, move away, change careers and, sometimes, pass away. Families then find themselves holding LIC policies with no one to remind them of premiums, help with a nominee change or stand beside them at claim time.
The first thing to know: your contract is with LIC, not with the agent. An agent leaving does not cancel your policy. What changes is who helps you service it. This guide is what I tell families in Ahmedabad who come to me in exactly this position.
Your policy does not end with the agent
Whether your cover continues depends on the policy itself — mainly on whether premiums are paid — not on whether the agent who sold it is still working. A policy with premiums up to date stays in force. A policy where premiums have stopped may have lapsed, and that is a separate problem with its own fix (revival), whoever the agent was.
What to do this week
These steps protect the policy whether or not you get a new agent.
- Find the policy documents, or at least the policy numbers. Old premium receipts and bank debits show them.
- Check each policy’s status on LIC’s customer portal or app, or ask the servicing branch: in force, lapsed, or paid-up, and the next premium due date.
- Update your mobile number, email and address with the servicing branch, so LIC’s notices reach you directly instead of a former agent.
- Pay premiums only through LIC’s own channels: the portal, the app, or the branch. Never pay into a personal account.
- Check that a nominee is registered on every policy, and that the nominee is still the right person.
Orphan policies and a new servicing agent
A policy whose agent has died, or whose agency has ended, is called an orphan policy. IRDAI’s guidelines on servicing orphan policies allow the insurer to allot them to active agents so that policyholders are not left without help.
At LIC, that allotment is done by the branch, under its own rules for which agents are eligible. You cannot simply pick any agent, and where the original agent still holds the agency, there is generally no provision to swap agents. Ask your servicing branch how your policy is currently handled.
Help that does not need a change of agent
Most servicing does not need an agent of record at all. Nominee changes, address and mobile updates, revival of a lapsed policy, loans against the policy, and maturity or death claims are all processed by the branch. What an experienced advisor adds is getting the forms and documents right the first time.
I help families with exactly this, whoever sold the policy. I will never ask you to surrender an existing policy to buy a new one; LIC’s code of conduct for agents rules that out, and it is rarely in your interest anyway.
Warning signs
Be careful if anyone who says they are your “new agent”:
- asks you to pay a premium into a personal bank account or UPI ID
- pushes you to surrender an old policy and buy a new one
- asks for an OTP, your portal password or signed blank forms
- cannot show an LIC agency identity card when asked
Frequently asked questions
Yes, if premiums are paid. Your contract is with LIC, not the agent. Check the policy status on LIC’s customer portal or with your servicing branch, and keep paying premiums through LIC’s own channels.
Generally not while the original agent still holds the agency. If the agent has died or the agency has ended, the policy becomes an orphan policy, and the LIC branch can allot it to an eligible active agent under its rules. Ask your servicing branch.
LIC sends notices to the mobile, email and address on record, so update those at your servicing branch. You can also see due dates on LIC’s customer portal and app.
Yes. Any LIC agent can help you prepare servicing requests such as a nominee change, revival, a policy loan or a claim; the branch processes them. Jigisha Kiran Shah helps Ahmedabad families with policies sold by any agent: +91 98240 25435.
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