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1. Loss exposure: any conditionor situationthat presentsa possibilityof loss, whetheror not an actual loss
occurs
2. Preḿiuḿ: the price of the insurancecoverageprovidedfor a specifiedperiod
3. Indeḿnify: to restore a party who has sustained a loss to the saḿe financial position that party held before
theloss occurred
4. Insured: any personor organizationwho is insured underan insurancepolicy
5. Property-casualty insurance: one of the two ḿain sectorsof the insuranceindustry encoḿpassing
nuḿerous types of insurance, ḿost of which cover the financial consequencesof daḿage to one's own property or
legal liability to others
6. Life-health insurance: one of the two ḿain sectors of the insurance industry encoḿpassing nuḿerous
types of insurance that cover the financial
7. Stock insurer: an insurer that is ownedby its stockholdersand forḿed as a corporationfor the purposeof
earninga profit for thestockholders
8. Ḿutual insurer: an insurer that is owned by its policyholders and for ḿed as a corporation for the purpose
of providinginsuranceto theḿ
9. Surplus-lines insurer: a non-adḿitted insurer that is eligible to insure risks that have been exportedby
a surplus lines licensee in accordance with a surplus lines law
10. Reinsurance:the transfer of insurancerisk froḿ one insurer to anotherthrougha contractualagreeḿent
under which one insurer (the reinsurer) agrees,in return for a reinsurancepreḿiuḿ, to indeḿnify anotherinsurer
(the priḿary insurer) for soḿe or all of the financial consequencesof certain loss exposures covered by the priḿary's
insurancepolicies
11. Pure risk: a chanceof loss or no loss, but no chanceof gain
12. Speculativerisk: a chanceof loss, no loss, or gain
13. Solvency: the ability of an insurer to ḿeet its financial obligationsas they becoḿe due, even those resulting
froḿ insured losses thatḿay be claiḿed several years in the future
14. Incoḿe stateḿent: the financial stateḿent that reports an organization's profit or loss for a specific
,period by coḿparing the revenues generated with the expenses incurred to produce those revenues
15. Earned preḿiuḿs: the portion of the written preḿiuḿs that apply to the part of the policy period that
has already occurred
16. Underwriting incoḿe: incoḿe an insurer earnsfroḿ preḿiuḿs paid by policyholdersḿinus
incurred lossesand underwritingexpenses
, 17. Balance sheet: thefinancial stateḿentthatreportstheassets,liabilities, and owner'sequityof an organi-
zationas of a specificdate
18. Policyholder'ssurplus: an insurer's assetsḿinus its liabilities, which representsits networth
19. Loss adjustḿent expenses:the expensethat an insurer incurs to investigate,defend,and settle
claiḿs according to the terḿs specified in the insurance policy
20. Assets: types of property,both tangible and intangible, owned by an entity
21. Liabilities: financialobligations,or debts,ownedby a coḿpanyto anotherentityusually thepolicyholderin
the case of an insurer
22. Investḿent incoḿe: interest, dividends, and net capital gains received by an insurerḿfro the insurer's
financial assets,ḿinus its investḿent expenses
23. Loss reserve: an estiḿateof theaḿountof ḿoneytheinsurer expectsto pay in thefuturefor lossesthat
haveoccurred
24. Unearnedpreḿiuḿ reserve: an insurer liability representing theḿount a of preḿiuḿs received
froḿ policyholdersthatare notyetearned
25. Loss ratio: a ratio thatḿeasureslossesand loss adjustḿentexpensesagainstearnedpreḿiuḿs and that
reflects the percentage of preḿiuḿs being consuḿed by losses
26. Expense ratio: an insurer's incurred underwritingexpensesfor a given perioddividedby its written
preḿiuḿs for the saḿe period
27. Coḿbined ratio: a profitability ratio that indicates whether an insurer has ḿade an underwriting loss or
gain
28. Independentagency: a business,operatedfor the benefitof its owner that sells insurance,usually as a
representative of several unrelated insurers
29. Exclusive agencyḿarketing systeḿ: an insuranceḿarketingsysteḿ underwhich agents
contract to sell insurance exclusively for one insurer
30. Direct writer ḿarketing systeḿ: an insuranceḿarketing systeḿ that uses sales agents who are
directeḿployeesof theinsurer
31. Distributionchannel:thenecessarypeopleand physicalfacilitiesto supportthesaleof insurance
products and services
32. Agent: in the agencyrelationship,the party that is authorizedby the principal to act on the principal's behalf
33. Agency: a legal, consensualrelationshipthat exists when oneparty, the agent,acts on behalfof anotherparty,
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1. Loss exposure: any conditionor situationthat presentsa possibilityof loss, whetheror not an actual loss
occurs
2. Preḿiuḿ: the price of the insurancecoverageprovidedfor a specifiedperiod
3. Indeḿnify: to restore a party who has sustained a loss to the saḿe financial position that party held before
theloss occurred
4. Insured: any personor organizationwho is insured underan insurancepolicy
5. Property-casualty insurance: one of the two ḿain sectorsof the insuranceindustry encoḿpassing
nuḿerous types of insurance, ḿost of which cover the financial consequencesof daḿage to one's own property or
legal liability to others
6. Life-health insurance: one of the two ḿain sectors of the insurance industry encoḿpassing nuḿerous
types of insurance that cover the financial
7. Stock insurer: an insurer that is ownedby its stockholdersand forḿed as a corporationfor the purposeof
earninga profit for thestockholders
8. Ḿutual insurer: an insurer that is owned by its policyholders and for ḿed as a corporation for the purpose
of providinginsuranceto theḿ
9. Surplus-lines insurer: a non-adḿitted insurer that is eligible to insure risks that have been exportedby
a surplus lines licensee in accordance with a surplus lines law
10. Reinsurance:the transfer of insurancerisk froḿ one insurer to anotherthrougha contractualagreeḿent
under which one insurer (the reinsurer) agrees,in return for a reinsurancepreḿiuḿ, to indeḿnify anotherinsurer
(the priḿary insurer) for soḿe or all of the financial consequencesof certain loss exposures covered by the priḿary's
insurancepolicies
11. Pure risk: a chanceof loss or no loss, but no chanceof gain
12. Speculativerisk: a chanceof loss, no loss, or gain
13. Solvency: the ability of an insurer to ḿeet its financial obligationsas they becoḿe due, even those resulting
froḿ insured losses thatḿay be claiḿed several years in the future
14. Incoḿe stateḿent: the financial stateḿent that reports an organization's profit or loss for a specific
,period by coḿparing the revenues generated with the expenses incurred to produce those revenues
15. Earned preḿiuḿs: the portion of the written preḿiuḿs that apply to the part of the policy period that
has already occurred
16. Underwriting incoḿe: incoḿe an insurer earnsfroḿ preḿiuḿs paid by policyholdersḿinus
incurred lossesand underwritingexpenses
, 17. Balance sheet: thefinancial stateḿentthatreportstheassets,liabilities, and owner'sequityof an organi-
zationas of a specificdate
18. Policyholder'ssurplus: an insurer's assetsḿinus its liabilities, which representsits networth
19. Loss adjustḿent expenses:the expensethat an insurer incurs to investigate,defend,and settle
claiḿs according to the terḿs specified in the insurance policy
20. Assets: types of property,both tangible and intangible, owned by an entity
21. Liabilities: financialobligations,or debts,ownedby a coḿpanyto anotherentityusually thepolicyholderin
the case of an insurer
22. Investḿent incoḿe: interest, dividends, and net capital gains received by an insurerḿfro the insurer's
financial assets,ḿinus its investḿent expenses
23. Loss reserve: an estiḿateof theaḿountof ḿoneytheinsurer expectsto pay in thefuturefor lossesthat
haveoccurred
24. Unearnedpreḿiuḿ reserve: an insurer liability representing theḿount a of preḿiuḿs received
froḿ policyholdersthatare notyetearned
25. Loss ratio: a ratio thatḿeasureslossesand loss adjustḿentexpensesagainstearnedpreḿiuḿs and that
reflects the percentage of preḿiuḿs being consuḿed by losses
26. Expense ratio: an insurer's incurred underwritingexpensesfor a given perioddividedby its written
preḿiuḿs for the saḿe period
27. Coḿbined ratio: a profitability ratio that indicates whether an insurer has ḿade an underwriting loss or
gain
28. Independentagency: a business,operatedfor the benefitof its owner that sells insurance,usually as a
representative of several unrelated insurers
29. Exclusive agencyḿarketing systeḿ: an insuranceḿarketingsysteḿ underwhich agents
contract to sell insurance exclusively for one insurer
30. Direct writer ḿarketing systeḿ: an insuranceḿarketing systeḿ that uses sales agents who are
directeḿployeesof theinsurer
31. Distributionchannel:thenecessarypeopleand physicalfacilitiesto supportthesaleof insurance
products and services
32. Agent: in the agencyrelationship,the party that is authorizedby the principal to act on the principal's behalf
33. Agency: a legal, consensualrelationshipthat exists when oneparty, the agent,acts on behalfof anotherparty,
