Law and Risk Management Concepts Flashcards
Direct Property Loss
This usually involves damage to the property itself. Common causes include fire, vandalism, theft, wind, and explosion.
Minor Damages
Damages or hazards that need a few days to repair.
Moderate Damages
Damages or hazards that need 1-2 weeks to repair or abatement.
Major Damages
Damages that require partial renovation or abatement of a building.
Severe Damages
Damages or hazards that require total renovation of a building.
Unlikely Frequency
Not likely to occur under normal circumstances (every 5-9+ years.)
Possible Frequency
May occur at some point during the buildings life cycle (every 3-4 years)
Likely Frequency
Expected to occur at some point in time (every 1-2 years)
Highly Likely
Expected to occur regularly under normal circumstances (multiple times within a year)
Indirect Property Loss
This results from direct damage to property causing a temporary or long-term interruption of a business following a fire, hurricane, or other loss. May also lead to a loss of rental income or a tenant cancellation of a lease due to damage on the premises.
Liability
This results from claims alleging that a person suffered some form of injury caused by another party’s negligence. Examples include claims from slip-and-fall incidents, injuries from pollution, landlord defamation of a tenant.
Personnel
This usually involves damage to the property itself.
Loss runs are
a historical record of past losses suffered by a business that are very valuable and critical to measuring loss exposure.
First step in risk management process:
identify floss exposures.
Being a bona fide purchaser of a property at fair market value means that:
you, as a buyer, have no reason to doubt that the seller has good title.
Premises liability is usually attributed to:
the person in possession of the property.
What is the key difference between easements appurtenant and easements in gross:
How they are transferred.
What is a freehold estate?
Life estate.
An ____________ is always attached to the dominant estate, so it is automatically transferred when the dominant or servient property is sold.
easement appurtenant.
The characteristics of a license do not include
the creation of an estate in land.
A fee simple estate is __________, meaning it is transferable.
Alienable
Which of the following is not a right of property ownership?
Taxation
What is true of fee simple estates:
They provide the most legal rights and powers
An easement implied by necessity involves the presumption that a grantor would not convey a portion of his or her property without retaining __________ to allow access to the property that he or she keeps.
an easement.