Principle & Practices Of Insurance Flashcards

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Who owns a mutual insurance company?

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The policy holder

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What did Factory mutual insurance Companies specialize in?

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Is fire risk management

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How often will policies with aggregated Policies Limit pay out in claims?

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Until the limit is used up for the term

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How often will a policy with a current limit pay out On claims

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Every time a loss occurs

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What is the difference between an agent and Broker

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An agent One company and A broker Deals with multiple companies

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What is the difference between actual cash value and Replacement cost

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Actual cash value is the replacement Cause less depreciation and replacement cost Is the cost of an item at time of loss without depreciation

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What is a Bailee

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Someone in care custody and control of Someone else’s property

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What are four reasons of property insurance policy may automatically Assigned

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Bankruptcy, Operation of law, Death and succession

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What is binding authority and Grants it to a broker

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A binding authority is an authority to put a contract of insurance in effect without contacting the insurer for permission and is granted by the insurer.

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What are 3 elements? Necessary for contract of insurance only

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Utmost good faith, indemnity and Insurable interest

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What is a claim reserve

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Once the claim is reported insurers are required to put money To pay the claim

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To whom are the rights of suborgination grants once claimed if pay

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The insurance company

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What value is depreciation taken off in a settlement of claims on an actual cash value basis

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It is taken off the replacement cost of the item at the time of the loss

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Is approximate cause the last event That occurs and causes a loss

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No. It is the immediate and Effective cause that of loss but not necessarily lash chain of events

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What is earn premium? what is unearned premium?

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Earned premium is the premium that used up well. Unpremium is premium that has yet to be used up

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16
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What is an endorsement used to do?

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It’s used to change or amend a policy

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17
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What does exclusion mean

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Not included

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18
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What types of refund is required when an insurer cancels and insurance policy

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Pro rata

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19
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What type of refund is required when an insured cancels his insurance policy

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Short rate

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20
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What is a franchise or disappearing deductible

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A deductible that no longer exists once a loss reaches a certain amount

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What is material fact

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A fact that is so important that it determines its own whether a risk is acceptable or not and bases on which the premium will be determined.

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What is miss representation

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A lie about material fact

23
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What is a hazard

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A condition that may cause a loss to occur

24
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What are two types of hazard

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Physical and moral

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When is the principle of general average used?
When cargo on a ship or car on a ferry are jettison. To save the ship or ferry, all insurers of the cargo or cars are not jettisons will contribute towards the loss
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What is a stock insurance company
An insurance company that trades on stock markets and owned by its shareholders
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Who makes up the group of syndicates in regards to lloyd's of london
Investors
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What is common law based on?
Law of common people and precedents
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What is the statue law
Law enact by the government
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Who is the lessee? Who's the lessor?
Lessee is a person leasing the car, and the lessor is the leasing company
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What is the lien?
Alone or financial Interest someone holds on a property
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How does mortgage class protect the mortgage e if the insurer violates the policy
If an insurer violates the policy, they will not receive any benefits from the policy but The insurable interest Of the mortgagee is protected
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What insurance coverage requires that the insured be negligent before it will pay out
Liability
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What is peril
An event that may cause a loss to occur
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What is risk? What type of risk can be insured
A risk is a chance of loss and only pure risk can be insured
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What is reinsurance
Insurance companies take out insurance on what they are insure
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What is a rate?
The price of a unit of insurance
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What are three types of policies required statutory conditions
Accident and sickness, auto and fire
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Who is the first party and who is the third party in contract of insurance
The first party Is the insured and the third party? Is anyone else involved in a claim from the insurance contract
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What is time on Risk
The length of time and day that the policy Has been enforced
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What is tort? What does it usually result in
A tort is a Legal wrong done against another and it usually results in the injured party suing the person for causing their injury
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What is The unearned premium reserve fund
A fund to guarantee an insurer's Unearned premium as of any given valuation date
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What does a value policy do
It guarantees the amounts set out in the policy
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What's the difference between a vacant and unoccupied
The intent to return or to not return
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What occurs when a policy is made Void
It is treated as if it was never existed, canceled back to the To the inception date, and all premiums are returned.
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An insurance policy will pay the lesser of these three things
Actual cash value, insurable interests and policy limits
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When does an insurance policy expire
12:01 am. on the date stated
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What is an example of contract Of compensation
A life insurance policy
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What is necessary when determining what name an insurance policy would be Set up in
The owner of the property of a vehicle, whether it be a person or an organization
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What is a writ
A notice that someone is being sued