Principles of Insurance

Fri, Apr 17, 2009

General

There are seven principles of insurance and they are as follows:

Firstly, there are a large number of homogeneous exposure units which means that the typical insurance policy is provided to individual members of large segments because this allows the insurers to get benefit from the ‘law of large numbers’. Secondly, there is always a definite loss which means that life insurance policy can be claimed only after the death of the insured person. Third principle of insurance is accidental loss which says that the claim can be made for the event which is unexpected or which is not under the control of the beneficiary of the insurance. Fourthly, the size of the loss should be significant.

Affordable premium is the fifth principle of insurance which means that premium is decided according to the protection offered. The higher the certainty of the event to be happened, the higher would be the loss. The sixth principle of insurance is calculable loss which means that two elements must be quantifiable including probability of loss and attendant cost. The last principle of insurance is limited risk of catastrophically large losses which means that the risk is aggregation. All these principles are same for all kinds of insurance policies like life insurance, auto insurance etc. And these principles play a very important role in determining the rates of policies like auto insurance quote.

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