Insurance Regulation
Risk Management
Ratios & Other Numbers
Vocabulary
Chapters 4-6
100
Licensing Status: SECURA selling insurance in Michigan

Foreign

100

A chance of loss or no loss, but no chance of gain.

Pure Risk

100

Name the 2 Financial Statements Covered

Income Statement & Balance Sheet

100

Insurance for Insurance Companies

Reinsurance

100

Insurance agent's authority to effect coverage on behalf of the insurer

Binding Authority

200

The ability of an insurer to meet its financial obligations as they become due

Solvency

200

Number of losses that occur within a specified period.

Loss Frequency

200

SECURA's Profit Share is based on which ratio?

Operating Ratio

200

Where you would insure unusual exposures- such as Aaron Rodger's throwing arm!

Lloyds (Lloyd's of London)

200

Tendency for people with the greatest probability of loss to be the ones most likely to purchase insurance

Adverse Selection

300

Rating Law: Insurers must file proposed rates but can immediately use the rates while state approval is pending.

File-and-Use Law

300

A Risk Control technique that involves ceasing or never undertaking an activity so that the possibility of a future loss occurring from that activity is eliminated.

Avoidance

300

Loss Ratio + Expense Ratio

Combined Ratio

300

"Take it or leave it" policy characteristic

Hint: Contract of...

Adhesion

300

Rating used by underwriters to rate one-of-a-kind risks

Judgment Rating

400

Adequate, Not Excessive & ...

Not unfairly discriminatory

400

Retention, Noninsurance Transfer & Insurance are examples of this.

Risk Financing Technique.

400

Net Investment Income/ Earned Premium

Investment Income Ratio

400

A wrongful act or an omission, other than a crime or breach of contract, that invades a legally protected right.

Tort

400

The process by which an insurer can, after it has paid a loss under the policy, recover the amount paid from any party (other than the insured) who caused the loss or is otherwise legally liable for the loss.

Subrogation

500

Requiring the purchase of insurance to be dependent on some other purchase or financial arrangement

Tie-in Sale

500

The final step in the risk management process

Monitoring results & revisiting the risk management program.

500

To determine how successful underwriters have been selecting profitable new business we would look at which ratio?

Combined Ratio

500

Name 3 Intentional Torts

Assault, Battery, Defamation, Slander, Libel, False Arrest, Invasion of Privacy

500

Name 3 Alternative Dispute Resolution Options

Mediation, Arbitration, Appraisal, Mini-Trail, Summary Jury Trial