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Commercial Lines 101
Insurance Definition Part 1
Term | Definition |
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Accidental loss | One that is unforeseen, unexpected and occurs as a result of chance |
Commercial Lines | Insurance lines use to cover commercial (business) risk as opposed to personal |
Contract | An agreement between two or more parties exhibiting the following necessary characteristics: mutual assent, competent parties, a valid consideration, and a legal subject matter |
Indemnification | Occurs when the insured is restored to the their approximate financial position prior to the occurrence of the loss |
Insurance | A contract in which the insurer agrees for a fee to indemnify another against a pre-defined category of risks |
Insurance Premium | The amount of money an insurer charges to provide the coverage described in an insurance policy |
Insured | The person(s) protected under an insurance contract |
Insurer | Insurance company that undertakes to indemnify for losses and perform other insurance related operations |
Law of Large Numbers | States that as the number of policy holders increases, the more confident the insurance company is its prediction of claims will prove true |
Pooling | The spreading of losses incurred by a few over the entire group, so that in the process, average loss is substituted for actual loss |
Risk | Uncertainty arising from the possible occurrence of given events; the insured or the property to which an insurance policy relates |
Risk Transfer | Risk is the transferred from the insured to the insurer, who typically is in a stronger financial position to pay the loss rather than the insured |