STUDY SHEET QUESTIONS WITH FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● Liquidity
Answer: An insurer's ability to make unpredictable payouts
●● Participating policy
Answer: A policy that may pay dividends
●● Nonparticipating policy
Answer: A policy that does not pay dividends
●● Domestic insurer
Answer: An insurer formed in Michigan
●● Foreign insurer
Answer: An insurer formed in another state
●● Alien insurer
Answer: An insurer formed in another country
,●● Pure risk
Answer: A risk with only a chance of loss or no loss
●● Speculative risk
Answer: A risk with a chance of loss, no loss, or gain
●● Peril
Answer: The cause of a loss
●● Hazard
Answer: Something that increases the chance of loss
●● Risk transfer
Answer: Shifting risk from one party to another
●● Law of large numbers
Answer: The larger the group, the more predictable the losses
●● Adverse selection
Answer: High-risk people are more likely to buy insurance
, ●● Consideration
Answer: The value each party gives in a contract
●● Express authority
Answer: Authority written in the producer's contract
●● Implied authority
Answer: Authority needed to perform the job
●● Apparent authority
Answer: Authority the public believes the producer has
●● Aleatory contract
Answer: A contract where values exchanged may be unequal
●● Unilateral contract
Answer: Only one party is legally bound
●● Contract of adhesion
Answer: One party writes the contract and the other accepts it as-is
●● Insurable interest