Insurance
CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
* What is Insurance? * Insurance Act,1938 * Types Of Insurance * How Insurance Works? * Life Insurance Business * Role of Insurance in Economic Development * Indian Insurance Industry: New Avenues for Growth 2012 * Research methodology
WHAT IS INSURANCE?
The business of insurance is related to the protection of the economic values of assets. Every asset has a value. The asset would have been created through the efforts of the owner. The asset is valuable to the owner, because he expects to get some benefit from it. The benefit may be an income or something else. It is a benefit because it meets some of his needs.
Every asset is expected to last for a certain period of time during which it will perform. After that, the benefit may not be available. The owner is aware of this and he can so manage his affairs that by the end of that period or life-time, a substitute is made available. Thus, he makes sure that the value or income is not lost. However, the asset may get lost earlier. An accident or some other unfortunate event may destroy it or make it non-functional. In that case, the owner and those deriving benefits from there would be deprived of the benefit and the planned substitute would not have been ready. There is an adverse or unpleasant situation. Insurance is a mechanism that helps to reduce the effect of such adverse situations.
Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a potential loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium. Insurer, in economics, is the company that sells the insurance. Insurance rate is a factor used to determine the amount, called the premium, to be charged for a certain amount of insurance coverage. Risk management, the practice of appraising and controlling risk, has evolved as a discrete field of study
INTRODUCTION
* What is Insurance? * Insurance Act,1938 * Types Of Insurance * How Insurance Works? * Life Insurance Business * Role of Insurance in Economic Development * Indian Insurance Industry: New Avenues for Growth 2012 * Research methodology
WHAT IS INSURANCE?
The business of insurance is related to the protection of the economic values of assets. Every asset has a value. The asset would have been created through the efforts of the owner. The asset is valuable to the owner, because he expects to get some benefit from it. The benefit may be an income or something else. It is a benefit because it meets some of his needs.
Every asset is expected to last for a certain period of time during which it will perform. After that, the benefit may not be available. The owner is aware of this and he can so manage his affairs that by the end of that period or life-time, a substitute is made available. Thus, he makes sure that the value or income is not lost. However, the asset may get lost earlier. An accident or some other unfortunate event may destroy it or make it non-functional. In that case, the owner and those deriving benefits from there would be deprived of the benefit and the planned substitute would not have been ready. There is an adverse or unpleasant situation. Insurance is a mechanism that helps to reduce the effect of such adverse situations.
Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a potential loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium. Insurer, in economics, is the company that sells the insurance. Insurance rate is a factor used to determine the amount, called the premium, to be charged for a certain amount of insurance coverage. Risk management, the practice of appraising and controlling risk, has evolved as a discrete field of study