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Commercial Lines 101
Question | Answer |
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What are the 4 key principles common to all contracts? | Offer & Acceptance; Consideration; Legal Capacity; Legal Purpose |
What are the important components of the Doctrine of Good Faith? | Representation, Concealment, and warranties. |
What are the benefits of insurance? | Stability, peace of mind, facilitates credit transactions, risk control, source of investment capital |
Types of Insurance | Property, casualty, life and health |
What are the cost to society of operating an insuracne system? | Cost arising from increased losses due to the moral and moral hazards; Cost of the resources utilized by the system. |
Property insurance | deals with 1st party insuracne that indemnifies the owner or user of property for their loss, if caused by a covered peril. |
Casualty insurance | deals with the 3rd party insuracne that is generally concerned with the losses caused by injuries to persons and legal liability imposed on the insured for such injury or for damage to property of others. |
Life and Health insurance | focuses on life, disability, and health |
Reasons for Regulation | Preserve insurer solvency; Complex product & unequal knowledge; Ensure fair rates; Promote social objectives |
The commissioner has the authority to... | conduct hearings; stop insures, agents & brokers from engaging in a particularly unfair or unethical activity; suspended an insurer's, agent's or broker's license to conduct business |
NAIC | National Association of Insurance Commissioners |