Personal Producing General Agent (ppga)
Individual appointed by the insurance company as an independent contractor. The agent receives various expense allowances for office-associated expenses and direct commissions on products sold as well as overriding commissions on products sold by other company agents. The PPGA usually has contracts to sell products from many different insurance companies. Insurance companies usually make available to the PPGA advanced sales technical support by supplying technicians and computer software and, in some instances, computer hardware.
Popular Insurance Terms
Value of benefit or contribution allocated to an employee under a pension plan; method of determining benefits due a retired employee. Each private pension plan establishes rules for ...
cost of annuity based on expectation of life of the annuitant and the expense and profit loadings of the insurance company. ...
Arrangement, often funded by life insurance, to continue an employee's salary in the form of payments to a beneficiary for a certain period after the employee's death. The employer itself ...
Formula for a given line of insurance used by property and casualty insurance companies to compare losses and loss adjustment expense with premiums. This shows the amount of each premium ...
Amount that the owner of a life insurance policy can borrow at interest from the insurer, up to the cash surrender value. If interest is not paid when due, it is deducted from any remaining ...
Agent with the authority from an insurance company to prepare and to place into business an insurance policy. ...
Expense of recovering property by a salvor. Salvage charges are not provided for in insurance contracts. If the owner and the salvor cannot agree on salvage charges, a court makes a ...
Same as term Calendar Year Experience: paid loss experience for the period of time from January 1 to December 31 of a specified year (not necessarily the current year). ...
Deliberate act or omission. These torts include trespass an individual enters property owned or in the possession of another without permission; conversion an individual exerts control and ...

Have a question or comment?
We're here to help.