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1
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What does Pecuniary mean

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Relating to or involving a monetary loss, Covers wealth

2
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Why are Pecuniary policies different to other policies

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Wealth is intangible

3
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Are these usually commercial or personal policies?

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Commercial

4
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Money insurance

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Third-party theft of physical money

5
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Why is money insurance usually only offered to businesses

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Susceptible to moral hazard

6
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What are excluded from money insurance policies?

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Employee error and omissions

7
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When is money covered in a money policy

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At all times: In transit, on-premises at the owners home, or authorised employees homes

8
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Credit insurance

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If a debtor fails to meet obligations this cover the remainder of the debt they are due to payout

9
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Why might you get credit insurance besides financial reasons?

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The management interment: the help you get from the insurer to monitor and recoup the debit

10
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Guarantees or bonds

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If the insured does not or can not fulfil the contract or an insured event occurs that causes the loss

11
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Performance bond

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Bond issued to one party of a contract as a guarantee against failure of the other party to meet obligations specified in the contract.

12
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What cost is covered in a performance bond?

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The additional cost of switching providers

13
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Abandonment and cancellation

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When an insured event causes an event to not happen due to unforeseen circumstances

14
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What is the difference between an abandoned and a cancelled event?

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Abandoned stopped after it started, cancelled never happened

15
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Fidelity guarantee

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Covers theft committed or aided by employees

16
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What must be proven in a fidelity guarantee claim?

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That the loss happened due to an employee

17
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Who can Fidelity guaranteeas cover (2)

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All employees or certain employees such as accountants

18
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Business interruption/consequential loss

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Covers business losses against unforeseen risks that cause the business to lose money due to inability to continue business for a period of time as a result of an insured peril.

19
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What is covered in business interruption insurance

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Loss of income and cost of working can also cover standing charges such as costs of working

20
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Why does FBD have to pay out claims of Covid but other insurers don’t have to?

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FBD explicitly said to a client that their policy cover covid, other insurers did not say this explicitly and the pandemic in their contract intended to cover something like e coli, since they made no provision for it they had not intended to include it in the contact

21
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Contingent business interruption

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Addons for business interruption policies

22
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Addons for business interruption insurance (5)

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  • Supplier extension: Cost of getting goods from somewhere else
  • Customer extension: Customer cant accept delivery
  • Public utility extension
  • Motor vehicle
  • Goods in transit
23
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Legal expenses insurance

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Covers the cost of pursuing or defending a claim

24
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What are some of the limitations of legal expenses insurance

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-Fines and penalties are excluded so are risks covered elsewhere (el, pl policies also cover this risk)

25
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How are pecuniary claims processed differently and why

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They are thoroughly investigated because of the intangible nature and susceptibility to fraud