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Insurance & RiskMgmt
Insurance and Risk Management
Term | Definition |
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Arbitration | The process by which the parties to a dispute submit their differences to the judgment of an impartial person or group appointed by mutual consent or statutory provision |
Better Business Bureau (BBB) | an alliance of U.S. and Canadian businesses that promotes consumer education and ethical business practices |
Claim | a request to cover losses from a specific event |
Coverage | protection against a specific kind of loss |
Deductible | the amount an insured pays on a claim before the insurer pays the remainder |
Insurability | an insurer's determination that an individual meets the company's criteria to be insured |
Insurance | financial protection that spreads risk among a large group of people |
Insurance Policy | a contract written to protect individuals named in the policy against specific future losses |
Insurance Premium | payment made by the insured to the insurer |
Insurance Score | a rating that predicts the likelihood of an individual to file an insurance claim |
Insured | an individual usually but not always the buyer, covered by an insurance policy |
Insurer | the company or agency that writes an insurance policy |
Liability | legal responsibility |
Misrepresentation | the unethical practice of making false claims about an insurance policy, or a competitor's policy, to make a sale |
Predatory Pricing | the practice of undercutting competitors' prices to drive them out of business and take over their share of the market |
Risk | a situation in which some kind of loss is possible |
Risk Management | an organized strategy for controlling financial loss from pure risk |
Small Claims Court | a local court in which claims for small sums of money can be heard and decided quickly and cheaply, without legal representation |