Top Insurance Exam Flashcards

Insurance is a contract that protects a consumer against some specific kind of loss or damage. It’s valuable in high-risk contexts like owning a car (which could crash) or owning a home (which could burn down). Insurance can also protect against personal harms and illness in the form of health insurance, which can help the consumer defray the costs of medical care. Rarer forms of insurance may cover earthquakes, floods, or other risks that are only faced by people in certain regions.

Insurance laws and regulations vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but some of the basic principles are the same. Insurance has to protect the company against fraudulent claims (e.g. from people who burn their own house down in order to claim the insurance money), but it also has to protect the consumer against companies that don’t want to pay out when something really does happen. Each jurisdiction has its own set of rules governing this delicate interaction between consumers and insurance companies.
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