Confining Condition
Term describing illness, sickness, or disability incurred by the insured such that the insured is restricted to his or her home, a hospital, or a nursing home. Many health insurance policies provide benefits only if the insured is restricted in such a manner.
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Coverage for business firms operating abroad to insure them against loss due to political upheavals including war, revolution, confiscation, incontrovertibility of currency, and other such ...
Automatic reinsurance that requires an insurer to transfer (cede) and the reinsurer to accept the part of every risk that exceeds the insurer's predetermined retention limit. The reinsurer ...
Legal procedure through which a court determines the rightful claimant (of two or more claimants making the same claim) against a third party. Insurance companies use interpleader if claims ...
Same as term Cost-Of-Living Adjustment: automatic adjustment applied to Social Security retirement payments when the consumer price index increases at a rate of at least 3%, the first ...
Actuarial method of calculating benefits and their costs for all the employees as a group rather than for each individual employee. The costs of the benefits are measured in the form of a ...
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