A personality disorder is defined as "an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates
markedly from the expectations of the individual's ------------, is pervasive and -----------, has an onset in
adolescence or early adulthood, is stable with time, and leads to distress or i...
Loss exposure - ✔✔Any condition or situation that presents a possibility of loss, whether or not
an actual loss occurs
Risk management - ✔✔The process of making and implementing decisions that will minimize
the adverse effects of accidental losses on an organization
Loss prevention - ✔✔A risk control technique that reduces the frequency of a particular loss
Loss reduction - ✔✔A risk control technique that reduces the severity of a particular loss
Exposure unit - ✔✔A fundamental measure of the loss exposure assumed by an insurer
Property-casualty insurance - ✔✔One of the two main sectors of the insurance industry,
encompassing numerous types of insurance, most of which cover the financial consequences of
damage to one's own property or legal liability to others.
Life-health insurance - ✔✔One of the two main sectors of the insurance industry, encompassing
numerous types of insurance that cover the financial consequences of death, injury, or sickness
, Utmost good faith - ✔✔An obligation to act in complete honesty and to disclose all relevant
facts
Contract of adhesion - ✔✔Any contract in which one party must either accept the agreement as
written by the other party or reject it
Contract of indemnity - ✔✔A contract in which the insurer agrees, in the event of a covered loss,
to pay an amount directly related to the amount of the loss
Self-contained policy - ✔✔A single document that contains all the agreements between the
insured and the insurer and that forms a complete insurance policy
Modular policy - ✔✔An insurance policy that consists of several different documents, none of
which by itself forms a complete policy
Property insurance - ✔✔Any type of insurance that indemnifies an insured who suffers a
financial loss because property has been lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed
Liability insurance - ✔✔Insurance that covers losses resulting from the insured's liability to
others
Homeowners policy - ✔✔Policy that covers most of the property and liability loss exposures that
arise out of residential property ownership and occupancy, as well as property and liability loss
exposures that individuals and families may have while they are away from their residences.
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