General Flashcards

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In which contract is only one party legally bound to the contractual obligations after the premium is paid to the insurer?

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Unilateral

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What word do you automatically associate consideration with?

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Premium

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What is a licensed individual who negotiates insurance contracts with insurance on behalf of the applicant?

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A Broker

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Who determines the probability of loss and sets premium rates?

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Actuarial department

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Who’s responsible for the selections of risk and rating that determines actual policy premiums?

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Underwriting

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Who’s responsibilities include fiduciary duty to the insurer and all respect especially when heavily premiums for insurance policies or application?

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Producer

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What’s the type of authority that is written into the producers contract?

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Express

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Whats the type of authority the public assumes the producer has?

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Implied

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Not wearing a seatbelt is considered what type of hazard?

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Morale

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What are the 5 underwriting condition?

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Age
Gender
Tobacco 
Preexisting conditions 
Hazardous occupation
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The cost sharing between the customer and the company stated as the percentage of the claim amount paid after the deductible is met?

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Co insurance

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The initial amount paid by the customer before the insurance benefits applies?

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Deductible

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When an agent misleads the public in an advertisement, who is held accountable?

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The insurer and the agent

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Who pays for any reports or medical exams required as part of the underwriting process for insurance?

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The company

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Which type of plan emphasizes preventative medicine and early treatment with prepaid routine medical exam, stress management and diagnostic screening techniques?

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HMO

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Which coverage has the freedom to choose any service provider in the us?

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PPO

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16
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What combines HMO & PPO?

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POS

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An insurance company has a participating policy and the dividends are taxable this is an example of a what company?

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Stock insurance

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This regulatory association promotes uniformity of insurance rules across states but has no legal authority to enforce the rules. It is what?

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What are the necessary elements of a legal contract?

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Consideration
Agreement
Acceptance

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An office that was set up to monitor the insurance industry to try to tailor it to me traditionally undeserved communities and was parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform was what?

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Federal insurance office

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A customer should never gain from a loss, only be returned to their original state, is called what?

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Principal of indemnity

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What is not a government sponsored health plan?

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Medicare Advantage

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What rider waves the elimination period if the insured is hospitalized during the elimination period!

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Hospital confinement rider

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When it comes to underwriting disability income what is the single most important rating factor?
Occupation
25
To collect SSDI an employee must be unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity due to a medically determined, physical, or mental condition that has lasted or is expected to last at least how long?
12 months
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What does not cause cobra coverage to end?
Employee has used up all 12 months of cobra benefits
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A high deductible health plan has a high deductible but also does what?
Only pays for preventative services into the deductible is met
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Whats part of a risk retention group
Groups must be made up of a large number of homogeneous or similar units
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What is a self-insurer
Self-insurance assume all of the financial risk without transferring the risk to an insurer
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What is the disability income policy?
Pays in benefits, weekly or monthly, when an insured is unable to work due to illness or injury
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What happens to benefits during a business overhead expense?
Benefits received our taxable to the business owner and must be reported as income
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What happens to benefits during the key person disability insurance
The premiums are not deductible to the business nor are the benefits received tax free
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Group Disability income insurance is usually offered how?
Only on a non-occupational basis which will not cover work related disabilities
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What is the principal sum an accidental death and dismemberment?
The principal some will be paid if the insured dies due to an accident within 90 days from the date of the accident.
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HMOs does what?
Emphasizes preventative medicine and early treatment with prepaid routine medical exams, stress management and diagnostic screening techniques
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What does a primary care physician do
Monitor healthcare needs and helps to control cost by not recommend unnecessary services
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What does PPO do
PPOs are an arrangement under which a selected group of independent hospitals and medical practitioners in a certain area, agree to provide service to subscribers at a prearranged costs
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What does basic medical expense do?
Pays for Office visits, diagnostic x-rays, laboratory charges, and ambulance expenses when not hospitalized
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What's basic hospital expense
Pays for hospital room and board and miscellaneous hospital expenses
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Who receive the master policy in group insurance
The group sponsor
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What is a conversion privilege
A conversion privilege allows an employee to convert the group coverage to an individual policy without proof of insurability
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Cobra coverage may continue for dependents of to how many months
36
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Hippa was designed for what
Provide coverage for people with pre-existing condition