Super-Duper Texas Adjuster License Test Review
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Coverage by contract whereby one party undertakes to
Insurance History and
indemnity (hold harmless) or guarantee another against
Regulation: Insurance
loss by a specified contingency or peril.
An organization whose purpose is to organize the
Insurance History and
regulatory and supervisory efforts of the various state
Regulation: NAIC
insurance commissioners from around the United States.
Protection of Consumer Regulates the consumer interest in regard to insurance.
Interests: The Texas
Department of Insurance
(TDI)
Protection of Consumer Insurance Commissioner
Interests: Head of the Texas
Department of Insurance
Protection of Consumer was set up by the State of Texas to establish certain
Interests: Chapter 541 - practices which constitute unfair and/or deceptive
Unfair and Deceptive insurance acts.
Insurance Practices
Protection of Consumer within 15 days 1) acknowledge receipt of a claim 2) begin
Interests: Texas Insurance investigation 3) request items from the claimant.
Code requires what within
how many days of receipt
of a claim that the insurer?
Insurance: What is the to provide a way to spread risk over a large group of
purpose of insurance? people
, IS AN INSURANCE PRINCIPLE STATING THAT AN
INSURED MAY NOT BE COMPENSATED BY INSURANCE
Insurance: Principle of
COMPANY IN AN AMOUNT EXCEEDING THE
Indemnity
INSURED'S ECONOMIC LOSS. It is a principle that
returns the insured to their previous financial condition.
Insurance: What are the two 1) to prevent the insured from profiting from a loss 2) to
purposes of indemnity? reduce moral hazard
(1) the potential for a financial loss or the statistical
chance of danger from exposure to a hazard or peril (2)
Insurance: what is risk?
the uncertainty about loss that exists whenever more
than one outcome is possible
is the first event in an uninterrupted chain of events that
Insurance: Proximate Cause
leads to a loss
Speculative: affords the opportunity for gain as well as
Insurance: What are the 2 the possibility of loss
types of risk? Pure: a risk where there is the potential of real loss due
to exposure to a peril
Insurance: example of risk to avoid risks associated with swimming pools, don't buy
avoidance a home with a pool.
Insurance: example of risk to reduce fire damage, install a sprinkler system in home
reduction
Insurance: Example of risk insurance company accepts risk when they've accepted
retention the insured.
Insurance: example of risk purchasing insurance, transfers the risk from insured to
transference insurance company.
Insurance: what is a peril? The actual cause of a loss.
1) named peril -- specifies which perils are insured
Insurance: what are the two
against 2) open peril / all risk peril -- insures against all
types of perils?
perils unless specifically excluded in the policy
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