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in·sur·ance
/ inˈshoŏrəns/
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n.
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a practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a premium:
many new borrowers take out insurance against unemployment or sickness.
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the business of providing such an arrangement:
Howard is in insurance.
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money paid for this:
my insurance has gone up.
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money paid out as compensation under such an arrangement:
when will I be able to collect the insurance?
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an insurance policy.
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a thing providing protection against a possible eventuality:
seeking closer ties with other oil-supplying nations as insurance against disruption of Middle East supplies
young people are not an insurance against loneliness in old age.
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Top Rank Florida.(insurance industry)(Illustration)
Magazine article from: Florida Trend; 8/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...2001 Rank Year Company (thousands) 1 1 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. $341,400 2 2 Prudential Insurance Co. of America 327,497 3 3 Northwestern Mutual 319,523 Life Insurance Co. 4 NR Kemper Investors Life Insurance Co. 200,510 5...
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Insurance ranked by 2008 premiums.
Magazine article from: Bellingham Business Journal; 3/1/2009; 700+ words
; Insurance ranked by 2008 premiums Data current...1946 million sskinsurance.com 3 Rice Insurance 734-1161 $25 1400 Broadway St...million riceinsurance.com 4 Balcos Insurance 714-9500 $23 192 E. Bakerview Road...
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China Insurance Industry Report, 2007- 2008.
M2 Presswire; 6/19/2008; 700+ words
; ...June 2008-Research and Markets: China Insurance Industry Report, 2007- 2008(C)1994...researchandmarkets.com/research/ee134c/china_insurance_indu) has announced the addition of the "China Insurance Industry Report, 2007- 2008" report...
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China Insurance Industry Report, 2007-2008.
M2 Presswire; 6/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...June 2008-Research and Markets: China Insurance Industry Report, 2007-2008(C)1994...researchandmarkets.com/research/ee134c/china_insurance_indu) has announced the addition of the "China Insurance Industry Report, 2007-2008" report...
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Insurance companies (Resource Directory 1997).
Magazine article from: Money Digest; 7/1/1997; 700+ words
; [Part 1 of 2] Aetna Life Insurance 79 Wellington St. W. Allianz Canada...Bloor St. E., Ste. 100 AllState Insurance Co. of Cda. 10 All State Parkway...W., Box 65, #1902 Amex Life Insurance company 80 Bloor St. W., #403...
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Regional Leaders in Property and Casualty Insurance: By 2004 market share. Dollars in thousands.
Magazine article from: American Banker; 6/9/2005; 700+ words
; (part 1 of 3) South 1 State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. 2 State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. 3 Allstate Insurance Co. 4 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. 5 United Services Auto Association 6 Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance...
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Insurance Department takes action on State Farm rates, extraordinary circumstance decisions made. (Pennsylvania Department of Insurance, State Farm Insurance Cos., automobile insurance)
PR Newswire; 6/22/1990; 700+ words
; INSURANCE DEPARTMENT TAKES ACTION ON STATE FARM RATES, EXTRAORDINARY...HARRISBURG, Pa., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Insurance Department today announced it has granted State Farm Insurance Cos. a 2.3 percent increase in the base rate it...
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Insurance industry information online. (column)
Magazine article from: Online; 1/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; Insurance Industry Information Online Should anyone ask me to...schizophrenic industry, I would have to nominate the insurance industry. Consider the slogans from some major insurance companies: the "good hands" of Allstate; under...
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Committed to honesty, integrity and ethics: 2004 IMSA-qualified members.(insurance company names)
Magazine article from: National Underwriter Life & Health; 9/13/2004; 700+ words
; Acacia Life Insurance Company Allstate Life Insurance Company Allstate Life Insurance Company of New York American Centurion Life Assurance Company American Enterprise Life Insurance Company American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company American...
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Regional Leaders in Property and Casualty Insurance: By 2003 market share. Dollars in thousands.(Illustration)
Magazine article from: American Banker; 5/24/2004; 700+ words
; (part 1 of 3) Midwest 1 State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. 2 State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. 3 American Family Mutual Insurance Co. 4 Community Insurance Co. 5 Allstate Insurance Co. 6 American Int'l. Specialty Lines...
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Insurance
Book article from: Space Sciences
Insurance Every ten days, on average, another...rocket and satellite—the space insurance community. The commercial space industry would not exist today without the space insurance industry. For example, in the case...
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insurance
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
insurance or assurance, device for indemnifying or guaranteeing...actual loser. The essence of the contract of insurance, called a policy, is mutuality. The major operations of an insurance company are underwriting, the determination of...
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Health Insurance, National Approaches
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
HEALTH INSURANCE, NATIONAL APPROACHES One key feature of a health system is health insurance. Health insurance allows individuals to share the risk of any large costs due to illness, and provides a structure by which individuals are linked with...
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Insurance Pooling
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business
Insurance Pooling Insurance pooling is a practice wherein a group of small firms join together to secure better insurance rates and coverage plans by virtue of their increased buying power...
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Health Insurance
Book article from: American Decades
HEALTH INSURANCE Beginnings Compulsory health insurance began in Germany in 1883 when Chancellor Otto Bismarck...orders and unions. While American workers bought life insurance policies from commercial insurance companies, they spent...
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