AINS 103 Q&A
Loss exposure - Answer-Any condition or situation that presents a possibility of loss,
whether or not an actual loss occurs.
Property loss exposure - Answer-A condition that presents the possibility that a person
or an organization will sustain a loss resulting from damage (including destruction,
taking, or loss of use) to property in which that person or organization has a financial
interest.
Real property (realty) - Answer-Tangible property consisting of land, all structures
permanently attached to the land, and whatever is growing on the land.
Personal property - Answer-All tangible or intangible property that is not real property
Business personal property - Answer-Stock, furniture, fixtures, equipment and
machinery, tenant's improvements and betterments, and other personal property owned
by the insured
Fixture - Answer-Any personal property affixed to real property in such a way as to
become part of the real property
Money - Answer-Currency, coins, bank notes, and sometimes traveler's checks, credit
card slips, and money orders held for sale to the public
Securities - Answer-Written instruments representing either money or other property,
such as stocks and bonds
Peril - Answer-The cause of a loss
Business income insurance - Answer-Insurance that covers the reduction in an
organization's income when operations are interrupted by damage to property caused
by a covered peril
Business interruption - Answer-Loss of revenue that a business or another organization
sustains because its operations are suspended as a result of physical injury to its
property
Profit - Answer-Net income that results when revenues exceed expenses
Continuing expenses - Answer-Expenses that continue to be incurred during a business
interruption
Extra expenses - Answer-Expenses, in addition to ordinary expenses, that an
organization incurs to mitigate the effects of a business interruption
, Liability - Answer-A legal responsibility for the consequences of an act or omission
Liability loss exposure - Answer-Any condition or situation that presents the possibility of
a claim alleging legal responsibility of a person or business for injury or damage
suffered by another party
Personal loss exposure - Answer-Any condition or situation that presents the possibility
of a financial loss to an individual or a family by such causes as death, sickness, injury,
or unemployment
Bailee - Answer-The party temporarily possessing the personal property in a bailment
Marine insurance - Answer-Insurance that, in the U.S., includes both ocean and inland
marine coverage and, in the rest of the world, is limited to insurance for vessels and
cargo
Inland marine insurance - Answer-Insurance that covers many different classes of
property that typically involve an element of transportation on land
Ocean marine insurance - Answer-Insurance that covers vessels and their cargoes,
including various vessel-related liability exposures
Workers compensation - Answer-A system that pays lost wages, medical and vocational
rehabilitation expenses, and death benefits to injured workers or their dependents for
employment-related injuries and diseases
Workers compensation statute - Answer-A statute that obligates employers, regardless
of fault, to pay specified medical, disability, rehabilitation, and death benefits for their
employees' job-related injuries and diseases
Occupational disease - Answer-Disease thought to be caused by work or the work
environment
Employee - Answer-A person who is (1) currently employed by the insured or an ex-
employee terminated within the past 30 days; (2) compensated by the insured by salary,
wages, or commissions; and (3) subject to the control and direction of the insured.
Independent contractor - Answer-A person (or organization) hired to perform services
without being subject to the hirer's direction and control regarding work details
Employee leasing - Answer-An arrangement in which a third party provides a firm with
employees for a fee
Cyber risk - Answer-The possibility that data will end up in the possession of a party
who is not authorized to have that data and who can use it in a manner that is harmful
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