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Risk - Chance of loss 5 Risk or Loss Factors - 1. Risk 2. Loss 3. Exposure 4. Peril 5. Hazard Insurance allows: - Individual or group to transfer over to insurance company the risk of financial loss from a destructive event Fundamental purpose of insurance is: - To indemnify policyholder against covered losses or restore policyholder back to same financial position they were in before Insurance companies may used term risks to refer to insured: - 1. Person 2. Property 3. Activity Loss - Unplanned or unwelcome reduction in economic value What is Direct and Indirect loss - 1. Direct loss - immediate result of and event caused by a covered peril 2. Indirect loss - remote result of an event caused by covered peril Exposure - State of being subject to a possible loss Insurer measures exposure by - Units to the person, property or event (more exposure units, the greater the premium) Exposure is also referred to as: - Total risk an insurer faces with insured Peril - The destructive event that insurance guards against 6 types of peril - 1. Fire 2. Explosion 3. Windstorm 4. Flood 5.Theft 6. CollisionInsurance policy provides - Financial protection against losses caused by specified peril