Things To Know About Insurance Policies
Posted by admin in All about Insurance on October 5, 2010
There are a lot of things that people believe about insurance that is just not true. You need to understand what is a statement of fact and what is a myth as far as insurance is concerned. Below are a few myths that are widely believed by people.
1.It is only the bread winner in the home that needs life insurance. It is important to buy insurance for anyone whose loss of income would affect the household. Some people neglect the importance of the stay at home mom or dad. Research has shown that the cost of housekeeping, child care, school runs and other household chores is commensurate to the pay for a full time job. Read the rest of this entry »
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Insurance – Economic Basis
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 17, 2010
Does it sound incredible for you when an insurance company charges a 30 year old person $25 monthly for a $200,000 term life insurance policy? In this article we’ll clear up this mystery and show that without going into details insurance is not so complicated as it may seem.
Insurance is a powerful economic device that plays an important role in modern society. Typically under insurance we understand a certain way of risk management. Thus, before we look deep into the insurance basis we should be clear about what the word “risk” means.
Usually, where there is risk, there is uncertainty about an adverse outcome. But such definition is a bit obscure and does not explain how do we actually evaluate and manage this “uncertainty”. In the insurance industry under “risk” it is customary to understand “a condition in which there is a possibility of an unfavorable deviation from an expected outcome”. Risk is related to the actual financial loss, and therefore is measurable. Degree of risk is the probability of the unfavorable event occurring, whereas magnitude of risk is the amount of the likely loss. Read the rest of this entry »
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All About Insurance and How to Find Cheap Insurance
Posted by admin in All about Insurance on September 10, 2010
Insurance is very important. The way that insurance works is that a whole lot of people pay a small amount of money into an insurance pool. This pool of money will protect these people against some sort of risk, such as the risk of your car getting stolen. Because many people pay money into the pool, the pool becomes rich and full of money. Then if one person who has paid money into the pool gets their car stolen, then the insurance company will give them money out of the pool. The insurance pool can pay out much more money than that individual person had by himself.
The only reason that insurance works is because the problem that is the risk isn’t so big that it happens to everyone. Just think if everyone who invested money into the insurance pool had a car that got stolen, the insurance company wouldn’t be able to pay everyone out lots of money. Insurance companies spend huge amounts of money paying risk analyzers to work out how much risk is in place. They also pay an effective legal team to stipulate good terms and conditions so that clients don’t take advantage of the insurance company by making false claims. Read the rest of this entry »
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