Insurance Flashcards
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What type of risk does insurance protect against?
Pure risk NOT speculative risk
Pure risk vs speculative risk
PR - Loss or no loss // SR - Loss or gain
Avoidance - What severity/frequency?
HS HF
Reduce - What severity/frequency?
LS HF
Insure transfer - What severity/frequency?
HS LF
Retain - What severity/frequency?
LS LF
Terms to know - Law of large numbers
As an insurance company, they need to make sure there are a lot of homes that can get insurance (10 homes vs 3000 homes) if 3% of homes catch on fire
Terms to know - Perils
Cause of financial loss (Fire)
Terms to know - hazards (Physical, moral, morale)
Condition that increases the likelihood of a peril going to happen // Physical - Living in Oklahoma where there are tornados // Moral - Dishonesty // Morale - Unaware, indifference
Terms to know - Adverse selection
your insurance is based on your answers to questions - Adverse selction is when someone who has high risk but gets an average cost of insurance (Gain)
Terms to know - Requisites for an insurable risk
Cant be catrosphic for the insurance company // has to happen at some occurance // needs to be affordable
Terms to know - Principle of Indemnity
To make you whole (Car fully fixed)
Terms to know - Elements of a valid contract (COALL)
Competent parties, Offer and Acceptance, Legal Consideration, and Lawful purpose
Terms to know - Subrogation clause
your insurance pays for the collision that wasn’t your fault and then your insuance company will go get the money from the other person’s insurance company
The principal of insurable interest - Property and liability
Must exist at the time of policy inception AND at time of loss
The principal of insurable interest - Life insurance
only need insurable interest at time of policy inception
What is the principle of insurable interest mean?
Must having an emotional or financial hardship resulting from damage, loss or destruction
Terms to be familiar with-Agent/general agent/independent agent/broker
Agent - Legal rep of the insurer // General agent - represent one insurer (AllState) // Independent agent - Represents multiple insurer // Broker - represents policy owner
Riders and endorsements
written additions to an insurance contract and takes more importants over what the original policy says (moving the valuation from actual cash value to replacement cost)
Exclusions on insurance contracts
What will NOT be covered // helps keep the premiums down
Insurance contract valuation - replacement cost
This is the best option - current cost or replacing property with new materials
Insurance contract valuation - Actual cash value
the replacement cost - depreciation (Furniture is usally like this)
Insurance contract valuation - Agreed upon value
this is for art - they come to an agreement
What do deductibles do?
Help eliminate small claims and reduce the premiums (Higher the deductible, the lower the premiums)