Debt securities that depend on a pool of underlying assets. In alternative risk transfer they refer to insurance-linked securities. See INSURITISATION; SECURITISATION.
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Asset/liability matching
Pensions term where the aim is to invest in assets likely to generate the cash flow needed to meet the liabilities of the scheme as they occur under varying economic conditions.
Assets
Cash, investments and property owned by insurance companies and other entities. They include equity investments, bonds, property, money owed by debtors (if collectable) and anything else with a monetary value. FSA regulations require insurers to put a conservative value on their admissible assets.
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Assets refer to property and possessions owned by an insurance company, which include real estate, buildings, furniture, stocks, bonds, and cash. In order to insure the public that insurance companies have the ability to pay claims, state laws require insurance companies to prove solvency. Further, state laws require a conservative valuation of all assets and do not permit any asset on the balance sheet where the value of an asset is uncertain or in the case of accounts receivables any receivables more than 90 days past due. Assets can be divided into three categories: invested assets, other assets, and admitted assets.These are assets that have been invested in an effort to generate income. Included are such things as cash, bonds, stocks, and income-producing real estate and properties.Invested Assets
Non-Income Generating Assets
This type of asset includes the building in which the company resides, furniture, and accounts receivable. Some states permit insurance companies to claim deferred and unpaid premiums as other assets.
Admitted Assets
Admitted assets are assets the company owns and which state law permits the company to place on its annual statement. Admitted assets are used to determine a company’s solvency and ability to pay the claims of its policyholders. In most cases, admitted assets are assets that can be easily liquidated or borrowed against. They may include real estate, mortgages, stocks, and bonds. Other assets of the insurance company are considered non-admitted assets. (See Risk-Based Capital).
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US: All funds, property, goods, securities, rights of action, or resources of any kind owned by someone.
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All the available properties of every kind of an Insurance Company that may be used to pay its debts. These would include real estate, bonds, mortgage, stock, cash, deferred and unpaid premiums. The assets of an Insurance Company include all funds, property, goods, securities, rights of action or reserve of any kind owned by it, less such items as are declared non-admissible by statute.
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US, MEDICIAL :
1. Anything owned that has exchange value, e.g., cash, federal treasury notes and bonds, property, data processing equipment, and investments. 2. Under Medicaid, property owned that the government takes under review when a patient applies for financial assistance. 3. Under Medicare Part D, the government counts cash or any property that can be turned into cash within 20 days, such as checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, IRAs, and 401(k)s, stocks, bonds, and similar items. It does not include a patient’s primary home, or certain property related to burial expenses. 4. Treasury notes and bonds guaranteed by the federal government, owned properties, and cash held by the trust funds for investment purposes.
Assigned claim
Insurance claim form from a provider to the insurance company on which the provider agrees to accept the Medicare allowable amount as payment in full for the services and payment is sent directly to the provider of the service.
Assigned risk
A US term to describe a risk that is not ordinarily acceptable to insurers and therefore by law is assigned to an insurer participating in an assigned risk pool or plan. Each insurer in the pool accepts its share of all of the pooled risks.
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A risk not generally acceptable to any insurance company but for which the law says that insurance must be acquired. Personal auto liability is one such necessary coverage. Insurance companies doing personal auto business in a state can be required to accept assignment of a portion of the state’s unacceptable drivers as insureds.
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A risk that may not be generally acceptable to any insurance company but for which the law says that insurance must be acquired. Motor Third Party is one such necessary coverage.
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MEDCIAL, US: Uncertainty (risk) that insurance underwriters do not want to insure but because of state laws are required to insure. For example, individuals who may be within a certain young age group, may have had an automobile accident, heart condition, diabetes, or hypertension. Most assigned risks are issued insurance through a system of proportional assignment chosen from a group of insurance companies. This is more commonly seen in casualty insurance.
Assigned risk plan
State-supervised automobile insurance plan that has been obtained through a proportional assignment from a group of insurance companies because the insured is unable to buy in the regular or voluntary market. Each driver in the plan is assigned to an insurance company. Cost of this insurance is higher than in the regular market.
Assigned Risk Plan/Pool Not defined
A market device that provides insurance for individuals or other entities than cannot obtain coverage from an insurer on a voluntary basis, by sharing premium and losses for such entities among the insurers participating in the pool; distinguished from assigned risk plan, joint underwriting association.
Assigned Risk Plans
Assigned risk plans are facilities through which drivers can obtain auto insurance if they are unable to buy it in the regular or voluntary market.This is the most well-known type of residual auto insurance market and exists in every state. Drivers may not be able to purchase insurance in the voluntary market because of a driving/accident record or age. All admitted insurers that write auto insurance in the voluntary market participate in the plan and are assigned drivers to insure based on the percentage of the voluntary market held. For example, if State Farm has 20% of the voluntary market in a state and Allstate has 15% then State Farm will be assigned 20% of those drivers who cannot buy insurance otherwise and Allstate will be assigned 15%. (See FAIR Plans; Joint Underwriting Association; Residual Market).
Assignee
Individual to whom contract rights are transferred under an assignment.
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Also executor, administrators, Sometime the Insurers, Covenant to pay the executors, administrators or assigns of the assured.
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UK: The party to whom a policy is assigned, i.e. transferred. He may be an assignee for value, or a voluntary assignee to whom the policy has been assigned by way of gift. The term assignee also applies to the party to whom a lease on premises is transferred. See ASSIGNOR’s leasehold LIABILITY INSURANCE.
Assignment
1. Transfer of ownership rights in a life insurance policy or other type of contract from one individual to another. 2. Document that creates the transfer of ownership rights of a life insurance policy to go into effect. See also absolute assignment and collateral assignment. 3. Transfer, after an event insured against, of an individual’s legal right to collect an amount payable under an insurance contract. 4. For Medicare, an agreement in which a patient assigns to the physician the right to receive payment from the fiscal intermediary. Under this agreement, the physician must agree to accept 80% of the allowed amount as payment in full, once the deductible has been met. 5. For TRICARE, providers who accept assignment agree to accept 75% or 80% of the TRICARE allowable charge as the full fee, collecting the deductible and 20% or 25% of the allowable charge from the patient. 6. In hospital billing, the assignment is inserted in Field 53 of the Uniform Bill (UB-04) inpatient hospital billing claim form. Also known as assignment of benefits.
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The transfer by a policyholder of the legal right or interest in a policy contract to a third party.
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UK: the transfer of rights under an insurance policy to a third party, often as security for a loan. In English law, obligations under an insurance policy may not, except in an insurance business transfer scheme under Part 7 FISMA, be assigned without the consent of the insured, such a process being known as novation.
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US: The legal transfer of one person’s interest in an insurance policy to another person.
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When a person wants to take a loan from a bank, the policy can be assigned (transferred) in the name of the person/organization from whom the money is borrowed as a collateral security. Sometimes even for one policy there can be different financial institutions having its individual specific stake for different Plants and/or machinery and/or building and/or stocks. Where assured assigns or otherwise parts with his interest in the subject matter insured, he does not thereby transfer to the assignee his rights under the contract of Insurance, unless there be an express or implied agreement with the assignee to that effects. However, this provision does not affect transmission of interest by operation of law.
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UK: Transfer of a policy from one person to another. Generally, the insurer’s consent is required as insurance contracts are personal contracts. Marine policies are freely assignable unless expressly prohibited as in the case of hulls. Cargo changes hands and it is desirable that the cargo policy is assignable with the goods. The Policies of Assurance Act 1867 makes the insurer’s consent unnecessary in life insurance, but the assignee has no right to sue the insurer unless written notice of the assignment has been given. Assignment of a life policy changes its ownership but not the identity of the life insured.