US: (1) A document which amends the policy or certificate. It may increase or decrease benefits, waive the condition of coverage or in any other way amend the original contract. (2) A special policy provision or group of provisions that may be added to a policy to expand or limit the benefits otherwise payable. (3) A document that modifies the policy. It may increase or decrease benefits, waive a condition or coverage, or in any other way amend the original contract.
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A document that modifies the protection of a policy, either expanding or decreasing its benefits or adding or excluding certain conditions from the policy. Same as an Endorsement.
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A document, attached to a policy, that changes the policy’s coverage, either by increasing or decresing benefits, or barring some conditions from coverage.
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US: A form that is attached to a surety or fidelity bond that alters the provisions of the bond form in some manner. A rider is the surety and fidelity equivalent of an insurance policy endorsement, and though not common, insurance endorsements are sometimes called riders.
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Another term for an endorsement attached to a policy that modifies the coverage.
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MEDICAL, US: See: endorsement, amendment, and waiver .
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Usually known as an endorsement, a rider is an amendment to the policy used to add or delete coverage.

An industry association of risk managers that publishes several periodicals, lobbies, sponsors seminars, and conducts an annual conference.
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Trade association of risk managers and insurance buyers.

The process by which a company decides how its premium rates for life insurance should differ according to the risk characteristics of individuals insured (e.g., age, occupation, sex, state of health) and then applies the resulting rules to individual applications. (See: Underwriting)
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UK: Underwriters combine individual risks into groups or ‘classes. This facilitates the underwriting process and enables individual proposals to be considered in the light of the class to which they belong. Some classes, e.g. total abstainers, mature applicants, may receive preferential treatment while others may belong to an excluded class, e.g. a motor insurer might exclude jockeys or others with a high exposure.

US: A group formed in compliance with the Risk Retention Act of 1986 authorizing a group of insureds engaged in similar businesses or activities to purchase insurance coverage from a commercial insurer. This is in contrast to a risk retention group (RRG), which actually bears the group’s risks rather than obtaining coverage on behalf of group members.
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A group of similarly situated persons or entities that are permitted under federal law to organize across state lines to buy insurance. The carrier that sells insurance to the group must be licensed in at least one state but need not be licensed in every state where a member of the group resides.
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UK Alternative risk transfer term that refers to collective insurance buying.

A method developed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to determine the minimum amount of capital required of an insurer to support its operations and write coverage. The insurer’s risk profile (i.e., the amount and classes of business it writes) is used to determine its risk-based capital requirement. Four categories of risk are analyzed in arriving at an insurer’s minimum capital requirement