Types of Insurance
Key Terms
Types of Claims
Determining your Policy
Vocabulary
100

Insurance protection for a car.

What is auto/car insurance?

100

A situation involving exposure to danger.

What is risk?

100

Incident occurs outside on one's control. (cleaning gun & it gets fired at the tv)

What is accidental loss?

100

Reviewing someone's record to determine premiums and future claims.

What is Historical Losses?

100

What you pay the insurance company in exchange for insurance.

What is a premium? 

200

Insurance protection to cover doctor expenses.

What is health insurance?

200

Serious or immediate danger.

What is a peril?

200

A single disaster causes losses to hundreds or thousands of policy holders.

What is Limited Risk of Catastrophic loss?

200
Uses math and statistics to assess risk and uncertainty.

What is an Actuary? 

200

What you pay first before insurance kicks in.

What is a deductible?

300

Insurance protection a person uses to cover damages to their house.

What is home insurance? 

300

Extra people/family added onto your policy.

What is a rider/endorsement? 

300

Size of the lost must be meaningful from the perspective of the insured.

What is Large Material Loss?

300

Someone who determines how expensive it will be if disaster strikes.

What is an Underwriter?

300

Modifications to your policy stating things no covered.

What is an exclusion? 

400

Insurance that covers a person if they become sick or injured.

What is disability insurance?
400

Type of contract that allows you to cancel at any time.

What is a unilateral contract?

400

Likelihood of an insured event is so high, or the cost of the event is so large, that the resulting premium is large relative to the amount of protection offered.

What is Affordable Premium? 

400

Total amount of money an insurance company pays out to the policyholders and sets aside for future claims. 

What is Incurred Losses?

400

The types of coverage and the amount of coverage listed at the top part of the policy. 

What is a declaration?