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| Any condition or situation that presents a possibility of loss, whether or not an actual loss occurs |
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| The process of making and implementing decisions that will minimize the adverse effects of accidental losses on an organization |
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| A risk control technique that reduces the requency of a particular loss |
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| A risk control technique that reduces the severity of a particular loss |
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| A fundamental measure of the loss exposure assumed by an insurer |
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| Property-Casualty Insurance |
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| One of the two main sectors of the insurance industry, encompassing numerous types of insurance, most of which cover the financial consequences of damage to one's own property or legal liability to others |
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| One of the two main sectors of the insurance industry, encompassing numerous types of insurance that cover the financial consequences of death, injury or sickness |
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| An obligation to act in complete honesty and to disclose all relevant facts |
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| Any contract in which one party must either accept the agreement as written by the other party or reject it |
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| A contract in which the insurer agrees, in the event of a covered loss, to pay an amount directly related to the amount of the loss |
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| A single document that contains all the agreements between the insured and the insurer and that forms a complete insurance policy |
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| An insurance policy that consists of several different documents, none of which by itself forms a complete policy |
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| Any type of insurance that indemnifies an insured who suffers a financial loss because property has been lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed |
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| Insurance that covers losses resulting from the insured's liability to others |
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| Policy that covers most of the property and liability loss exposures that arise out of residential property ownership and occupancy, as well as property and liability loss exposures that individuals and families may have while they are away from their residences |
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| Personal liability coverage |
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| Coverage for damages, plus costs of any defense, related to a claim or suit brought against the insured that resulted from bodily injury or property damage caused by an occurrence covered under the policy |
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| Personal auto policy (PAP) |
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| An insurance policy that covers an individual or a family against loss exposures arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of automobiles |
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| Coverage for direct and accidental loss or damage to a covered auto by any peril except collision or overturn or a peril specifically excluded |
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| Personal watercraft policy |
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| An insurance policy that covers an individual's or a family's loss exposures arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of watercraft used principally for recreational or personal transportation purposes |
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| Umbrella liability policy |
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| A liability policy that provides excess coverage above underlying policies ad may also provide coverage not available in the underlying policies, suject to a self-insured retention |
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| Coverage that protects the insured from damages owed because of legal liabilty to another party. For auto policies, it protects insureds against liablity arising out of the ownership or operation of automobiles |
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| Life insurance that provides coverage for a specified period, sch as ten or twenty years, with no cash value |
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| Insurance that pays for extended medical care or custodial care received in a nursing home, hospital, or home |
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| A type of life insurance policy or contract that makes periodic payments to the recipient for a fixed period or for life in exchange for a specified premium |
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| Commerial package policy (CPP) |
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| Policy that covers two or more lines of business by combining ISO's commercial lines coverage parts |
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| Businessowners policy (BOP) |
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| A package policy that combines most of the property and liability coverages needed by small and medium-sizes businesses |
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| Commercial auto insurance |
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| Insurance that covers a business or a not-for-profit organization against loss exposures arising out of hte ownership, maintenance, or use of automobiles |
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| Auto physical damage coverage |
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| Coverage for damage to or theft of a covered auto that can include both collision coverage and other than collision (comprehensive) coverage |
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| Commerical property insurance |
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| Insurance that covers commercial buildings and their contents against various types of property loss |
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| Insurance that covers vessels and their cargoes, including various vessel-related liability exposures |
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| Insurance that covers many different classes fo property that typically involve an element of transportation |
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| Commercial crime insurance |
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| Insurance that covers 1) money & securities against numerous perils (not limited to crime perils) & 2) property and other than money and securities against crime perils, such as employee theft, robbery, theft by outsiders and extortion |
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| Commerical general liability (CGL) insurance |
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| Insurance that covers many of the common liablity loss exposures faced by an organization, including its premises, operations and products |
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| Professional liability insurance |
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| Insurance that covers persons engaged in various occupations against liability resulting from their rendering or failing to render professional services |
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| Workers compensation insurance |
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| Insurance that provides coverage for benefits an employer is obligated to pay under workers compensation laws |
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| A nongovernmental insurance provider |
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| An insurer that is owned by its stockholders and fomed as a corporation for the purpose of earning a profit for the stockholders |
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| An insurer that is owned by its policyholders and formed as a corporation for the purpose of providing insurance to them |
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| Reciprocal insurance exchange (interinsurance exchange) |
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| An insurer owned by its policyholders, formed as an unincorporated association for the purpose of providing insurance coverage to its members (subscribers), and managed by an attorney-in-fact. Members agree to mutually insure each other and they share profits and losses in the same proportion as the amount of insurance purchased from the exchange by that member |
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| Captive insurer, or captive |
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| A subsidiary formed to insure the loss exposures of its parent company and the parent's affiliates |
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| The transfer of insurance risk from one insurer to another through a contractual agreement under which one insurer (the reinsurer) agrees, in return for a reinsurance premium, to indemnify another insurer (the primary insurer) for some or all of the financial consequences of certain loss exposurers covered by the primary's insurance policies |
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| The process of selecting insureds, pricing coverage, determining insurance policy terms & conditions, and tehn monitoring the underwriting decisions made |
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| An insurer employee who evaluates applicants for insurance, selects those that are acceptable to the insurer, prices coverage, and determines policy terms and conditions |
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| A demand by a person or business seeking to recover from an insurer for a loss that may be covered by an insurance policy |
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| A conscious act or decision not to act that reduces the frequency and/or severity of losses or makes losses more predictable |
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| Methodical examination of a policyholder's operations, records, and books of account to determine the actual exposure units and premium for insurance coverages already provided |
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| The ability of an insurer to meet its financial obligations as they become due, even those resulting from insured losses that may be claimed several years in the future |
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| An insurer licensed to operate in a state but incorporated in another state |
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| An insurer doing business in the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated |
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| An insurer domicilied in a country other than the US |
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| An insurer to which a state insurance department has granted a license to do business within that state |
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| An insurer not authorized by the state insurance department to do business within that state |
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| State laws that permit producers with a surplus lines license to write business for an acceptable "nonadmitted insurer when protection from admitted insurers is not available" |
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| State law under which insurance rates are set by a state agency or rating bureau and all licensed insurers are required to use those rates |
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| An insurance rating law in which the rates and supporting rules must be files with and approved by the state insurance department before they can be used |
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| An insurance rating law in which the insurer must files rates and supporting rules with the state insurance department prior to their use, but the rates can then be used immediately without specific approval |
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| An insurance rating law in which the rates must be files with the state insurance department within a specified period after they are put into use |
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| An insurance rating law under which prior approval is required on if hte new rates exceed a certain percentage above (and sometimes below) the rates previously filed |
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| Open competition (no-file) law |
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| An insurance rating law that allows insurers to develop and use rates without having to fiel with or get approval from the state insurance department |
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| Market conduct regulation |
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| Regulation of the practices of insurers in regard to four areas of operation: sales practices, underwriting practices, claim practices, and bad-faith actions |
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| Unfair trade practices law |
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| State law that specifies certain prohibited business practices |
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| The process, conducted by state insurance regulators, of verifying the solvency of insurers and determining whether their financial condition enables them to meet their financial obligations and to remain in business |
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| National association of insurance commissioners (NAIC) |
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| An association of insurance commissioners from the 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 US territories and possessions, whose purpose is to coordinate insurance regulation activities among the various state insurance departments |
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| The primary financial statement prepared by insurers and required by every state insurance department |
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| The amount the insurer estimates and sets aside to pay on an existing claim that has not been settled |
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| Insurance regulatory information system (IRIS) |
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| An information and early warning system established and operated by the NAIC to monitor the financial soundness of insurers |
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| A state-established fund that provides a system for the payment of some of the unpaid claims of insolvent insurers licensed in that state, generally funded by assessments collected from all insurers licensed in the state |
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| Collectively, insurers who voluntarily offer insurance coverages at rates designed for customers with average or better-than-average loss exposures |
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| Insurance obtained from nonadmitted insurers when protection is not available from admitted insurers |
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| A nonadmitted insurer that is eligible to insure risks that have been exported by a surplus lines licensee in accordance with a surplus lines law |
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| Loss adjustment expense (LAE) |
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| The expense that an insurer incurs to investigate, defend and settle claims according to the terms specified in the insurance policy |
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| Losses that have been paid to, or on behalf of, insureds during a given period |
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| The losses that have occurred during a specific period, no matter when claims resulting from the losses are paid |
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| Incurred but not reported (IBNR) losses |
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| Losses that have occurred but have not yet been reported to the insurer |
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| The portion of an organization's profits that is paid to shareholders |
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| Types of property, both tangible and intangible, owned by an entity |
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| Assets meeting minimum standards of liquidity that an insurer is allowed to report on its balance sheet in accordance with statutory accounting principles |
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| Types of property, such as office furniture, and equipment, that regulators do not allow insurers to show as assets on financial statements because these assets cannot readilty be converted to cash at or near their market value |
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| Financial obligations, or debts, owed by a company to another entity, usually the policyholder in the case of an insurer |
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| An estimate of the amount of money the insurer expects to pay in the future for losses that have already ocurred and been reported, but are not yet settled |
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| An insurer liability representing the amount of premiums received from policyholders that are not yet earned |
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| Under statutory accounting principles (SAP), an insurer's total admitted assets minus its total liabilities |
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| A ratio that measures losses and loss adjustment expenses against earned premiums and that reflects the percentage of premiums being consumed by losses |
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| An insurer's incurred underwriting expenses for a given period divided by its written permiums for the same period |
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| A profitability ratio that indicates whether an insurer has made an underwriting loss or gain |
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| Net investment income divided by earned premiums for a given period |
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| Incurred losses/earned premiums |
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| Incurred Underwriting expenses/written premiums |
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| Loss Ratio + Expense Ratio |
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| Investment Income Ratio Formula |
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| Net Investment income/Earned premiums |
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| Overall Operation Ratio Formula |
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| Combined Ratio-Investment Income Ratio |
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