Chapter 1 Insurance Terms Flashcards
What is Depreciation?
Reduction in value, particularly due to wear and tear.
What Is Exposure?
Susceptibility to risk
What is Insurance policy?
A contract between a policyowner (and/or insured) and an insurance company which agrees to pay the insured or the beneficiary for loss caused by specific events
What is Implied warranty
A legal term a product is suitable for its intended purpose and fits an ordinary buyer’s expectations
What is a Insurer (principal)?
The company who issues an insurance policy
What is Obsolescence?
Depreciation in the value of a property due to becoming outdated
What is Premium?
The money paid to the insurance company for the insurance policy
What is the Law of large numbers?
States that the larger the number of people with a similar exposure to loss, the more predictable actual losses will be
What are the 3 types of Insurable Interest?
Financial, Blood (Relative), Business.
Does Insurable interest have to exist at the time of loss?
YES!
What are the 2 types of risk?
Pure, and Speculative
What is Pure Risk?
No opportunity for financial gain, Only type of risk thats insurable.
What is speculative Risk?
Can have either a Loss or a Gain ex Gambling (no insurable).
Out of Pure or Speculative Risk, which is insurable?
Only Pure
What is Peril?
Perils are the causes of loss insured against in an insurance policy.
Life insurance insures against
financial loss caused by the premature death of the insured;
Health insurance insures against
the medical expenses and/or loss of income caused by the insured’s sickness or accidental injury;
Property insurance insures against
the loss of physical property or the loss of its income-producing abilities;