Whether you are «high risk» due to a hazardous job or occupation, the dangerous activities or hobbies you engage in, are a smoker or have a health condition such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, or bipolar disorder, you pose
additional risk to the insurance company underwriting your contract.
Not exact matches
Examples of these
risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited
to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the
risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances
to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability
to obtain adequate
insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability
to raise
additional capital
to fund our operations, and
to generate the necessary amount of cash
to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors
to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability
to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit
risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations,
insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability
to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating
to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties
to provide hotel management services
to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability
to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments
to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «
Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the
Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Various agencies from local governments
to insurance companies support
additional defensive driving education
to further limit the
risk of driving.
Underwriting requirements:
Additional health information required by the
insurance company in order
to accurately assess the health of the life insured so that it can properly determine the
risk of insuring him / her.
The
insurance company may not be willing
to take on the
additional risk of having
to pay out the premium on a policy on a high
risk applicant.
As a result, the
insurance company raises your
insurance rates
to cover any
additional risk they're taking on.
These samples will be reviewed by the life
insurance underwriters in order
to determine whether your health may pose an
additional risk to the life
insurance company.
Life
insurance companies consider HBP
to be an
additional risk factor when providing life
insurance policies, but it is possible
to get affordable life
insurance coverage despite your hypertension.
That
additional risk is going
to translate into higher premiums from the
insurance company.
But within the last decade,
insurance companies have also begun using credit information as an
additional factor
to help predict which persons pose more
risk.
The
insurance company is going
to offset that
additional risk by charging you higher monthly premiums.
Reinsurance is commonly used by
insurance companies to offset the
risk of major
insurance risks on large policies, it works by either combining
insurance offerings from many
companies or for one insurer
to take the whole
risk and then sell on the
risk to one or more other
companies in the form of
additional insurance policies.
If you are hiring professional movers your coverage may be limited, however, you may be able
to purchase
additional endorsements from your home
insurance company to cover specific
risks that concern you.
In addition
to higher premiums,
insurance companies that issue guaranteed life policies protect themselves against
risk in two
additional ways: (1) by offering relatively low payouts, and (2) by typically not providing a death benefit during the first two years after issuing the policy (if the policyholder dies during this time, the
company issues a refund of premiums instead).
Can contain
additional protections
to the
insurance company «graded death benefit» thereby limiting the
insurance companies exposure
to risk.
After assessing these
risk factors a life
insurance company will decide A) whether or not
to cover you while still pregnant and B) if you should be charged an
additional premium.
Police officers are more likely
to be murdered than people in other high
risk occupations, adding an
additional risk insurance companies need
to consider.
You're not attempting
to be dishonest since the
insurance company understands they're taking on a higher
risk as well, and they charge an
additional premium for it.
If you've got a $ 500 deductible and it will only cost you $ 600
to get those cat scratches buffed off your hood and the paint touched up, it might be easier
to simply come out of pocket for the
additional $ 100 without involving your
insurance company and
risking a rate increase because you made a claim.
Travel trailer
insurance or camper trailer
insurance packages vary from
company to company, so be sure you fully understand what is included in your policy and request
additional coverage, if needed,
to cover your specific
risks and concerns.
Rather than purchasing equities outright, the
insurance company typically enters into options contracts using some portion of the policy premium, which enables them
to pass on the upside gains without the downside losses — but at the cost of an
additional counterparty
risk.
Keeping with the idea of
risk management, the more drivers your state has, the more likely you are
to be in an accident and
insurance companies have
to cover that
additional risk.
Even though this is a very common condition, life
insurance companies consider it
to be an
additional risk factor.
This is
to compensate for the
additional risk the
insurance company takes on
to cover an older policy holder.
Some high
risk insurance companies will allow you
to purchase
additional liability coverage
to increase the policy limits and some
companies will also allow you
to purchase uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage, but many
insurance companies will not offer collision or comprehensive
insurance to a high
risk driver.
Once the
insurance company assesses the
risk, it will determine whether it will offer you a policy or not, and if there will be an
additional premium assessed
to you.
Because the applicants on no medical exam life
insurance policies are typically those who are considered
to be of higher
risk, life
insurance companies have
to compensate for the
additional amount of
risk that they are taking on.
If your term life
insurance application is denied — for example, if you have a high
risk profile — your agent can help you
to explore
additional life
insurance companies and options.
photo credit: Mykl Roventine Life
insurance rates for those that smoke cigarettes, depending on the
company and any
additional risk factors, can run anywhere from two
to four times higher than a comparable non smoker.
Not all of these coverage types fit the needs of every business, of course, and many
companies need
additional coverage or specialty
insurance to manage
risk.
Things like a DUI / DWI showing up on your record, will wind up being there for at least half a decade, and will cause some auto
insurance companies to label you as a high
risk driver, resulting in
additional fees and higher rates.
The
company strayed away from its money - making core business of high
risk insurance policies, and got into the extended warranty business (automobiles, electronics, appliances etc.) which is why it hired me when an
additional body was requird
to keep up with expanding business requirements.