Insurance is the process of
transferring the risk of a large financial loss to a company willing to pay for the loss in exchange for a small guaranteed payment.
A formal device for reducing the chance of loss
by transferring the risks of several individual entities to insurance companies.
However, in exchange
for transferring the risk back to the insurer these policies typically have a higher premium and build little cash value.
In transferring risk to the insurer, businesses must give proof of their information governance practices.
Instead, for a few dollars a month, you could
transfer the risk easily to a company that can take care of you when there's a loss.
If the primary reason for having insurance is to
help transfer risk — then adding risk to the insurance may not make sense.
Insurance: A system for reducing risk
by transferring the risks of several individual entities to one entity, such as an insurance company.
Instead, for a few dollars a month, you could
transfer the risk easily to a company that can take care of you when there's a loss.
Insurance effectively
transfers risk from your business to the insurer in exchange for a fee (i.e. the premium).
General insurance
transfers risk away from you and your family to an insurer for personal matters other than life insurance.
For example, property and casualty
insurance transfers the risk of damage to your personal property to an insurance company so that you don't have to pay out of pocket for any property damage covered under the terms of the insurance policy.
As Open Europe has argued for a long time, Merkel is fiercely determined to achieve Treaty change in order to
transfer risks associated with eurozone failure away from German taxpayers.
«You
also transfer risk when you buy an insurance policy, and I don't consider State Farm to be my friend,» he says.
The code is aimed at improving price and production signals, stopping practices that
transfer risk inappropriately and enhancing competition for farmers» milk.
This is truly a case in which good guys do not finish first; trading as much home equity as you can for
cash transfers risk from you to your lender and may put you in a more powerful position when you need it the most
A reader posed this question to me a little less than a month ago: With the financial markets providing such opportunities to
transfer risk such as re-insurance and cat bonds how legitimate is it f...
If you purchase a home with a high ratio mortgage, you will pay mortgage default insurance
which transfers the risk of default from the lender to the mortgage insurer.
Referring
lawyers transfer the risk of cost overruns to the court lawyer, they can distance themselves from an unfavourable outcome, and often earn the client's gratitude when the outcome is favourable.
Common treatments
include transferring the risk (for example through insurance), terminating the risk (by ceasing the risk generating activity), treating the risk (by engaging in risk reduction activity) or terminating the risk (by ceasing the risk generating activity altogether).
This is a method by which the
Insurer transfers the risk under a High Sum Assured Policy to another entity (who will be called the Reinsurer) on payment of a Reinsurance Premium.
This model, if chosen,
transfers risk away from the UK Government, with industry taking a lead for managing the UK's plutonium stockpile, and the UK taxpayer only paying as plutonium is dispositioned.
Building on the pro-active service model, schools could also explore remote network management services, which can help them to stabilise their costs, widen their internal knowledge bank and, crucially, to
transfer the risks associated with of day - to - day mishaps to the service provider.
Assess yourself Knowing what exposure your firm has in the event a mistake or series of mistakes occurs is the first step in
transferring the risk from the lawyers or the firm itself to an insurer.
Counterparties for these hedging swaps
also transfer the risk, often with short - term Exchange - Traded - Fund (ETF) or ETN hedges that lapse on Fridays.
By CFTC definition, managed money traders are exclusively classified as speculators as opposed to being hedgers engaged
in transferring risk to other speculators.
Some small risks can be managed with personal or company finances; however, larger, more catastrophic expenses are best handled
by transferring the risk to an insurance company.