KS Partners gets new Partner-In-Charge in Bangalore Keshava Prashanth to head Motor Insurance Practice

Keshava Prashanth has recently joined the Bangalore office of KS Partners to further expand their third party motor insurance claim practice. Keshava has joined as Partner-In-Charge of the Bangalore office..Keshava Prashanth has recently joined the Bangalore office of KS Partners to further expand their third party motor insurance claim practice. Keshava has joined as Partner-In-Charge of the Bangalore office..Keshava has over 12 years of legal experience in the insurance industry out of which he spent four years as an inhouse legal executive at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company and ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company, as senior executive and Legal Manager respectively. At ICICI Lombard Keshava was later promoted to the position of Product Manager (Motor Third Party claims)..Keshava also has a wide experience in handling matters for insurance companies during his 8-year stint asan independent practicing advocate representing all major life and general insurance companies..Talking on his decision to join KS Partners Keshava said, “The decision to join the firm was based on the process driven approach being adopted by them to service the insurance industry especially in the sphere of handling third party motor insurance claim. Thiswill further leverage and accentuate my experience in serving this industry as well as provide me with the requisite international experience in this arena through the firm’s association with DAC Beachcroft, LLP”..Managing Partner Umesh Khaitan said “Induction of Keshava in our team was a strategic decision aimed at bringing in a senior person with a rich industry experience in the sphere of third party motor insurance claim. Keshava’s induction has also given a big fillip to our existing practice in Bangalore which experiences one of the highest incidents of third party motor insurance claims in the country”..Umesh Khaitan further added, “With the kind of corporate and legal experience Keshava has, we are confident that the processes that we have developed with the help of DAC Beachcroft for handling third party motor insurance claim, will be further perfected, customized and streamlined. This will prove extremely helpful and beneficial for the insurers providing them with both short and long term benefits in the third party motor insurance portfolio”..Recently, former Partners at Tuli & Co, Mrinal Ojha and Trinath Tadakamalla had joined KS Partners to further expand the firm’s insurance practice. Both Mrinal and Trinath had joined the Delhi office with effect from May 1, 2012..The total number of Partners at the firm is now 12.