Thursday, April 14, 2011

General insurance terms



underwriter: an underwriter is basically a company that supplies insurance to a normal person like you or me

Actuary: is basically a person who sees if your a low enough risk for the company to provide you with insurance.

Agent: basically the person who you talk to when you want to buy insurance.

Assets: the things that you own that you can put up as collateral

Collateral: the things that the insurance will take if you are not able to pay your bill

Actual Cash Value: how much it would cost to replace an item that lost and that must be given to you from the insurance company.

Insurance Claim: A request to the insurance company for money to cover something that was damaged

Write off: when it is cheaper to replace something than to try to fix it

types of instances, Car insurance, Life insurance, Commercial Vehicle insurance, Health Insurance

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