Federal Trade Commission (ftc)
Government agency, under the McCarran-Ferguson act (public law 15), that has no authority over insurance matters to the extent the states regulate insurance to the satisfaction of Congress. However, this does not prevent the FTC from conducting investigations into the insurance industry. For example, in 1970 the Congress charged the FTC with the responsibility of enforcing the fair credit reporting act, which requires an insurance company to notify an insurance applicant of an impending inspection report and to release information so collected to the applicant upon request. If the report results in the applicant's rejection for insurance, he must be notified of the adverse report and his right to its contents. Perhaps the best known FTC investigation involved its study "Life Insurance Cost Disclosure," that was extremely critical of industry cost disclosure practices.
Popular Insurance Terms
Paid-in surplus, revaluation surplus, and donated surplus. This surplus includes all sources of surplus with the exception of earned surplus. ...
National agency supported by property insurance companies. The bureau is used by companies that do not have their own claims adjusters. ...
Representative of an insurance company who sells ordinary and industrial life insurance policies. In an effort to move their field forces into the ordinary life business, many industrial ...
Rights and duties of an insured as a prerequisite for collecting benefits. For example, in the event of property damage, the insured may be required to submit proof of loss to the insurance ...
Same as term Line Limit: maximum amount of a specified type of insurance coverage, according to underwriting guidelines, that an insurance company feels it can safely underwrite on a ...
Coverage for an insured firm if its business debtors fail to pay their obligations. The insured firm can be a manufacturer or a service organization but it cannot sell its products or ...
Excess or deficit of gross premium above the pure cost of insurance and expenses. The result becomes the valuation of the asset share of the policyholder at the end of a given year. The ...
Person by whose life the duration of an insurance policy, estate trust, or gift is measured. This person is generally referred as the insured in an insurance policy. ...
Individual who has the right to the use of assets while the usufruct is in force. ...
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