AFSB 152 THE INSTITUTES EXAM REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Following the Civil War, the growing number and complexity of
financial/commercial relationships led to the need for.
Answer: Commercial suretyship.
◉ In accordance with a contract to build a county shed for the
Village of Malcom, Raymone Construction purchases a contract
surety bond from SureRite Insurance. Identify the principal, obligee,
and surety in this suretyship..
Answer: Principal--Raymone Construction; obligee--Village of
Malcom; Surety--SureRite Insurance
◉ The two basic types of bonds that are written today are.
Answer: Contract surety bonds and commercial surety bonds
◉ Sureties use what written document to authorize a producer to
act as the surety's agent in bond production?.
Answer: A power of attorney
,◉ When evaluating a surety claim, claims representatives are often
assisted by outside legal counsel. What other professionals assist
claims representatives?.
Answer: Engineers
◉ Suretyship and banking are alike in that.
Answer: Neither expects to suffer a loss
◉ Suretyship and insurance are alike in that.
Answer: Insurance commissioners regulate both.
◉ In the surety bond three-party relationship, the party who is
primarily responsible for fulfilling the obligation and who typically
has control of the obligation is the.
Answer: Principal
◉ Because most bonds are "joint and several liability" documents,
the obligee can recover losses from.
Answer: The principal or the surety, or from both.
◉ A financial guarantee differs from performance and fidelity
guarantees because it requires honesty, the ability to perform the
contract, and.
Answer: The ability to pay money to meet the contractual obligation.
,◉ Instead of holding a principal's assets as security, a surety might
choose to hold an instrument issued by a commercial bank for the
principal, but with the surety named as the beneficiary. What is this
instrument?.
Answer: An irrevocable standby letter of credit
◉ A type of reinsurance transaction that involves an agreement
between the primary insurer and the reinsurer specifying how to
transfer risks, that defines the eligible risks in terms of lines and
classes of business, that specifies the parties' obligations, and for
which eligible risks are automatically reinsured, is.
Answer: Treaty reinsurance
◉ Which of these statements regarding the principal allocation
methods for reinsurance of surety bonds is accurate?.
Answer: Both facultative and treaty reinsurance of bonds can be
written as pro rata or excess of loss.
◉ A basic type of bond that involves all situations in which sureties
guarantee performance of obligations that generally do not arise
from contracts is.
Answer: Commercial surety bonds.
, ◉ Which one of the following developed in the United States to
guarantee the large amounts of money involved in the country's
industrial and commercial growth?.
Answer: Corporate suretyship
◉ The establishment of the formal contract between the surety,
principal, and obligee that is offered to the principal is called.
Answer: Execution of a bond
◉ While suretyship and banking both use a prequalification process
to extend credit to their customers, suretyship is different from bank
credit in that.
Answer: Suretyship guarantees performance as well as monetary
obligations.
◉ Except in the case of a forfeiture bond, if the principal defaults, the
surety will pay.
Answer: Up to the bond penalty, but no more than the obligee's
actual loss amount.
◉ In an unlimited cosurety arrangement, the obligee can collect.
Answer: The full loss from any of the cosureties up to the penal sum
of the bond.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Following the Civil War, the growing number and complexity of
financial/commercial relationships led to the need for.
Answer: Commercial suretyship.
◉ In accordance with a contract to build a county shed for the
Village of Malcom, Raymone Construction purchases a contract
surety bond from SureRite Insurance. Identify the principal, obligee,
and surety in this suretyship..
Answer: Principal--Raymone Construction; obligee--Village of
Malcom; Surety--SureRite Insurance
◉ The two basic types of bonds that are written today are.
Answer: Contract surety bonds and commercial surety bonds
◉ Sureties use what written document to authorize a producer to
act as the surety's agent in bond production?.
Answer: A power of attorney
,◉ When evaluating a surety claim, claims representatives are often
assisted by outside legal counsel. What other professionals assist
claims representatives?.
Answer: Engineers
◉ Suretyship and banking are alike in that.
Answer: Neither expects to suffer a loss
◉ Suretyship and insurance are alike in that.
Answer: Insurance commissioners regulate both.
◉ In the surety bond three-party relationship, the party who is
primarily responsible for fulfilling the obligation and who typically
has control of the obligation is the.
Answer: Principal
◉ Because most bonds are "joint and several liability" documents,
the obligee can recover losses from.
Answer: The principal or the surety, or from both.
◉ A financial guarantee differs from performance and fidelity
guarantees because it requires honesty, the ability to perform the
contract, and.
Answer: The ability to pay money to meet the contractual obligation.
,◉ Instead of holding a principal's assets as security, a surety might
choose to hold an instrument issued by a commercial bank for the
principal, but with the surety named as the beneficiary. What is this
instrument?.
Answer: An irrevocable standby letter of credit
◉ A type of reinsurance transaction that involves an agreement
between the primary insurer and the reinsurer specifying how to
transfer risks, that defines the eligible risks in terms of lines and
classes of business, that specifies the parties' obligations, and for
which eligible risks are automatically reinsured, is.
Answer: Treaty reinsurance
◉ Which of these statements regarding the principal allocation
methods for reinsurance of surety bonds is accurate?.
Answer: Both facultative and treaty reinsurance of bonds can be
written as pro rata or excess of loss.
◉ A basic type of bond that involves all situations in which sureties
guarantee performance of obligations that generally do not arise
from contracts is.
Answer: Commercial surety bonds.
, ◉ Which one of the following developed in the United States to
guarantee the large amounts of money involved in the country's
industrial and commercial growth?.
Answer: Corporate suretyship
◉ The establishment of the formal contract between the surety,
principal, and obligee that is offered to the principal is called.
Answer: Execution of a bond
◉ While suretyship and banking both use a prequalification process
to extend credit to their customers, suretyship is different from bank
credit in that.
Answer: Suretyship guarantees performance as well as monetary
obligations.
◉ Except in the case of a forfeiture bond, if the principal defaults, the
surety will pay.
Answer: Up to the bond penalty, but no more than the obligee's
actual loss amount.
◉ In an unlimited cosurety arrangement, the obligee can collect.
Answer: The full loss from any of the cosureties up to the penal sum
of the bond.
