Insurance - Research Article from Encyclopedia of Business and Finance

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 8 pages of information about Insurance.

Insurance - Research Article from Encyclopedia of Business and Finance

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 8 pages of information about Insurance.
This section contains 2,384 words
(approx. 8 pages at 300 words per page)
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Insurance is vital to a free enterprise economy. It protects society from the consequences of financial loss from death, accidents, sicknesses, damage to property, and injury caused to others. The person seeking to transfer risk, the insured (policyholder), pays a relatively small amount, the premium, to an insurance company, the insurer, which issues an insurance policy in which the insurer agrees to reimburse the insured for any losses covered by the policy. Insurance is the process of spreading the risk of economic loss among as many as possible subject to the same kind of risk and is based on the laws of probability (chance of a given outcome happening) and large numbers (enables the laws of probability to work).There are many perils (causes of loss) that society faces, some natural (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, flood, drought), some human (e.g., arson, theft, fraud, vandalism, contamination, pollution...

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