Risk Retention Act Of 1986

Definition of "Risk retention act of 1986"

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Federal act composed of amendments to the Product Liability Risk Retention Act of 1981 and enacted to make the procedures more efficient for creating risk retention groups (capitalized, member-owned insurance company) and purchasing groups (insurance buyers group formed to obtain coverage for homogeneous liability risks, in many instances hard to insure, from an insurance company).

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