Premium advice note

A note sent by a broker to an insurer or policy signing office when the broker’s client has been debited with the premium or credited with a return premium.
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A note sent to an insurer or a policy signing office by an insurance broker when the broker’s client is debited with the premium or credited with a return premium.

Premium earned

UK: As premiums are payable in advance it follows that at any one time, e.g. end of the financial year, most policies will have an unexpired term to complete. The premium earned is the pro rata share of the premium relating to the period that has expired.
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Portion of the premium for a single Policy or group of policies, that an Insurer is entitled to recognize as earned revenue because a similar portion of the coverage period has elapsed. For example, under an annual Policy, one-third of the total premium is earned after the first four months of coverage.
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That part of a premium that relates to so much of the period of insurance as has already run.

Premium exemptions

Premiums paid during a person’s lifetime on his own life may be regarded as normal expenditure out of income and therefore exempt from inheritance tax. Such premiums are not ‘normal expenditure’ if an annuity was purchased on his life unless they were not associated operations, i.e back to back. Policies and annuities are not regarded as associated operations if, first, the policy was issued on full medical evidence of the insured’s health, and, secondly, it would have been issued on the same terms if the annuity had not been bought.

Premium portfolio

an amount payable by a reinsurer to a cedant in consideration of the release of the reinsurer from all or part of the liability arising under a reinsurance contract for claims occurring after a specified date under all or certain underlying contracts incepting prior to that date.
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The unearned premium debited to an outgoing reinsurer (loss portfolio withdrawal) and credited to the incoming reinsurer as in loss portfolio entry.

Premium value

Valuation of a long-term insurance policy for the pension scheme’s accounts. It is based on how much the scheme has to pay for each member. The actuary or accountant may opt for a modified premium value, i.e. one that excludes the company’s setting up charges.

Premiums trust fund

Trust fund into which all premiums received by a Lloyd’s member must be placed. The fund is available for the payment of claims, reinsurance premiums, syndicate expenses and, when an account has been closed, for the payment of any profit due to the member. Each member has a sterling fund, a US dollar fund and a Canadian dollar fund. The funds are the first link in Lloyd’s chain of security.