Life And Health Insurance, Personal And Family Exposures
Personal and family loss by death, disability, sickness, old age, accident, and unemployment. All of these exposures are insurable, and coverage's can be purchased under a variety of policies. In life insurance these include adjustable life, current assumption, endowment, family income policies, family maintenance policies family policy, limited payment life, universal life, and variable life. In annuities, both fixed and variable types are available; in health insurance, medical expense and disability income coverage's are available. In pensions, there are defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans. The various Social Security benefits also provide considerable protection against personal and family exposures.
Popular Insurance Terms
Provision in a marine insurance policy in which agreement has been reached between the insured and the insurance company concerning the worth of the property that is to be covered under the ...
Federal statute relating to drug abuse policies that requires all employers with federal contracts at least equal to $25,000 to certify, as a condition of receiving a federal contract, that ...
Situation wherein the agent's conduct causes a client or prospective insured reasonably to believe that the agent has the authority to sell an insurance policy and contract on behalf of the ...
Coverage protecting future profits to be earned from a manufacturer's inventory. A manufacturer may lose all or part of an inventory of finished goods due to a peril such as fire and still ...
Means of projecting the costs of pension plans on a level basis over a specified future period of time. The actuarial value of each employee's future benefits to be paid at retirement is ...
Presence of other contract (s) covering the same conditions. When more than one policy covers the exposure, each policy will pay an equal share of the loss. ...
Health plans established by associations of hospitals and physicians to provide hospital service and care, and medical and surgical care. ...
Legal right of a passenger in an automobile involved in an accident to bring a liability suit against the driver. It is deemed that a special standard of care is owed by an automobile ...
Estimate of an asset that is used to determine tax obligations. It is usually in the interest of the owner to have a low value put on a piece of property for tax purposes. However, the ...

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