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Categories of Risk
Parts of a Policy
Insurance Contracts
Terminology
100

A snapshot of the insurer's financial position

What is a balance sheet?

100

The only kind of risk that is insurable because there is no possibility of gain.

What is pure risk?

100

The policy cover page which contains answers to who, what, when, where, and how much coverage is offered.

What is the declarations page?

100

The characteristic of insurance contracts that states that both parties are responsible for fulfilling certain requirements

What is Conditional?

100

The shifting of financial risk from one party to another

What is Transfer?

200

The portion of a premium for which insurance has already been provided.

What is earned premium?

200

The quadrant of risk that represents conditions that increase the likelihood of loss

What is hazard risk?

200

This part of the policy contains provisions, including what is expected of the insurer and insured 

What are the Conditions?

200

The characteristic that prevents a homeowner from transferring their policy to the new buyer

What is personal?

200

The principle that insurance policies are easier to rate the more data they have on a group of similar exposures

What is the law of large numbers?

300

The unit of measure used to determine an insurance policy premium

What is an exposure unit?

300

An uninsurable risk that occurs due to changes in the market forces on assets and liabilities

What is financial risk?

300

This part of the policy contains coverages that are included without additional cost.

What are additional coverages?

300

The characteristic of insurance that requires insurers to restore insureds to their previous financial position, but prevents the insured from gaining

What is indemnity?

300

The loss valuation method that factors in depreciation

What is actual cash value?

400

The premium for a policy insuring a 2500 square foot home at a rate of 0.3.

What is $750.

400

A wet floor would be this kind of hazard risk

What is a physical hazard?

400

The four core pieces of an insurance policy 

What are the Declarations, Insuring Agreement, Conditions, Exclusions

400

The characteristic that refers to the contract being non-negotiable

What is adhesion?

400

When this is greater than 100, it indicates and underwriting loss

What is a combined ratio?

500

THE COMBINED RATIO:

Earned Premiums: $4,000,000

Written Premiums: $6,000,000

Incurred Losses: $1,000,000

Incurred UW Expenses: $3,000,000

What is 0.75 or 75%

500

The kind of hazard risk that is uninsurable because it is intentional

What is moral hazard?

500

The part of the policy that lists covered causes of loss.

What is the insuring agreement.

500

The characteristic of insurance contracts that refers to one party benefiting more than the other

What is unequal or aleatory?

500

General damages collected due to a spouse passing and no longer sharing their companionship

What is loss of consortium?