In-house brokerage agency

Division in an exclusive-agency insurance company and staffed by company-employed brokerage sales agents. They solicit distribution agreements with other companies offering products that the exclusive-agent company does not have. The company’s agents can then broker business with those companies through the in-house brokerage agency.

In-Kind

An expression relating to the insurer’s right in many property contracts to replace damaged objects with new or equivalent (in kind) material, rather than to pay a cash benefit.