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61Terrorism Risk Insurance Act — The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is a United States federal law signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 26, 2002. The Act created a federal backstop for insurance claims related to acts of terrorism. The Act is intended as… …
62Life insurance — The foundation of life insurance is the recognition of the value of a human life and the possibility of indemnification for the loss of that value. F. C. Oviatt, Economic place of insurance and its relation to society[1] Life insurance is a… …
63Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority — The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is a national agency of the Government of India, based in Hyderabad. It was formed by an act of Indian Parliament known as IRDA Act 1999, which was amended in 2002 to incorporate some… …
64Zong Massacre — The Zong Massacre was the name given to the mass killing of African slaves that took place in 1781 on the Zong , a British slave ship owned by James Gregson and colleagues in a Liverpool slave trading firm. The resulting court case, brought not… …
65List of Empire ships (M) — The Empire ships were a series of ships in the service of the British Government. Their names were all prefixed with Empire . Mostly they were used during World War II by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), who owned the ships but contracted… …
66Hanover (ship) — The Hanover was a two masted brigantine owned and operated by the Falmouth Packet Company [http://www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/EBDCAADC BB76 45CB A2B3 1791FCA39EBA/0/his wrecks.pdf Advisory Committee on Historic Wrecks Report for 1998] ] . The …
67coinsurance — The sharing of an insurance risk between several insurers. An insurer may find a particular risk too large to accept because the potential losses may be out of proportion to their claims funds. Rather than turning the insurance away, the insurer… …
68National Health Service (England) — The NHS Logo for England …
69loss — The opposite of gain. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * loss loss [lɒs ǁ lɒːs] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] the fact of no longer having something that you used to have, or having less of it: • loss of earnings through illness ˈjob loss… …
70Amount at Risk — The monetary difference between the death benefit paid by a permanent life insurance policy and the accrued cash value. For example, if a policy s death benefit is $200,000 and its accrued cash value is $75,000, then the amount at risk equals… …
