Statutory Restriction
Limitation imposed on insurance companies by state law. States oversee the insurance industry, being responsible for making certain that the rates are fair, reasonable, and adequate, and that among other things, the companies that write insurance in the state are financially sound and able to pay future claims. To this end, the states restrict the types of investments insurance companies can make with their premium dollars, and they control insurers' relationships with insureds by guaranteeing certain minimum rights to insureds.
Popular Insurance Terms
Federal law requiring that all pension plan trustees and anyone else who handles pension funds must obtain a fidelity bond. This bond covers the plan in the event of embezzlement and theft. ...
Mortality table used to calculate the legal reserve and life insurance policy cash surrender values. ...
Arrangement by which the insured agrees to incur a given degree of variability in the ultimate total costs associated with financing its losses. ...
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Financial instrument such as a fixed dollar annuity or bond that pays a minimum periodic income at a minimum guaranteed rate of interest. ...
Legal document that permits the individual to declare his or her desires concerning the use of life-sustaining treatment to be made at the point in time when death is imminent and the ...
Retirement arrangement in which contributions are divided between allocated (insured) and unallocated funding instruments (an uninsured plan). It seeks to combine the advantages of ...
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