Severity Rate


Definition of "Severity rate"

Mel & Barb Neely
  Island Vacation Properties, Llc

Size of the losses used as a factor in calculating premium rates. For example, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics studies the number of days lost by injured employees per million person-hours worked.



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