Risk And Insurance Management Society (rims)
Society dedicated to the advancement of professional standards of risk management. Its membership is composed of risk and insurance managers of business organizations, public organizations, and service organizations. Both profit and nonprofit organizations are represented. The goal of RIMS is to upgrade the management of risk and employee benefit plans in order to preserve the assets of the organization in question. Included in the activities of RIMS are research, conferences and seminars, and sponsorship of the insurance institute of Americas (IIA) associate in risk management (ARM) program.
Popular Insurance Terms
Same as term : Self Insurance: protecting against loss by setting aside one's own money. This can be done on a mathematical basis by establishing a separate fund into which funds are ...
a large number of homogeneous exposures (in order for the deviation of actual losses from expected losses to approach zero, and thecreditability of the prediction to approach one). loss ...
Property coverage for damage or destruction of structures in the course of construction. For example, the standing frame of a house destroyed by fire would be covered. ...
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one in which the amount and frequency of payment may fluctuate. ...
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Entitlement of a participant in an employee benefit insurance plan to receive benefits regardless of his or her employment status. ...
Date at which insurance protection begins. ...
Statutory surplus plus the interest maintenance RESERVE plus the ASSET VALUATION RESERVE. ...
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