Debentures

Securities issued by companies acknowledging long-term loans. Debenture holders are entitled to a fixed rate of interest each year regardless of company profits as it is debt capital.

Debit

MEDICAL,USA: 1. In accounting, this is an increase in assets or a reduction in liabilities or capital. It is the opposite of credit and an accounting entry is posted on the left side of the financial ledger. 2. In insurance, debits represent underwriting factors that have an unfavorable effect on an individual’s mortality rating. This term is used in a numerical rating system.
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Collection of premiums of industrial type Insurance. A group of industrial policies assigned to an Agent for collection and servicing.
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The amount of premiums outstanding and business to be collected by debit or home service agents. This can also refer to the area these customers live in.

Debit Life Insurance

Debit life insurance (also known as Industrial Life Insurance) is a type of insurance where the premium is paid weekly, biweekly, or monthly and is collected by an agent of the insurance company who visits the insured at his or her home in order to collect the premium. Debit life insurance is often purchased by people with low incomes. Face amounts are often small and used principally for final expenses.

Debris Removal

Debris removal pays for the expense of removing debris caused by a covered peril. Normally the debris must be removed within 180 days. For example, a person’s home may be a total loss due to a fire. The charred remains of the house are “debris” and the removal of the remains is not covered in the value of the house. The debris removal clause provides coverage to clear the lot.Most homeowner and commercial fire policies include debris removal. It is important to note that the coverage does not include clean up of any pollutant.

Debris Removal Clause

A provision that may be included in a property policy to provide the insured with indemnification for expenditures incurred in the removal of debris produced by the occurrence of an insured peril. Ordinarily a property policy covers only the direct damage caused by an insured peril.
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A consequential coverage commonly included in direct loss policies. For example, fire policies provide limited recovery for the insured’s cost of removing the debris after a covered fire. Not to be confused with removal.

Debt

UK: 1. Underwriting measure imposed by life insurers on sub-standard lives. The debt is deducted from the sum payable on death within the term but not from any survival benefit. It may be for a fixed amount (fixed debt) or it may diminish each year (diminishing debt) eventually to nil to coincide with a reducing extra risk 2. Money due from one party to another. ‘Trade debtors’, a balance sheet item, are assets at risk through non-payment and therefore insurable under credit insurance and book debts insurance.
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UK: a device the effect of which is to reduce the amount payable under a life policy effected on a sub- standard life in the case of death from a specified cause, or from natural causes as opposed to accidental death.
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MEDICAL,USA: Legal obligation to pay money. This may arise from a consumer credit transaction or rental purchase agreement.