Basic Principles of Life and Health Insurance

You have now learned the concepts of life and health insurance and annuities. let's review some of the key areas from this section that will help you prepare to pass the role of insurance is to transfer the risk of financial loss from an individual or business to an insurance company which in turn spreads the cost of the unexpected financial loss to many individuals if there was not an insurance system in place the cost of the loss would have to be covered solely by the individual who suffered the lost for example life insurance guarantees a specific sum of money when someone dies health insurance provides funds to cover medical bills due to sickness or injury and to also cover the lost of money because of a disability annuities provide a stream of income by making a series of payments over a certain period of life insurance in available from both private companies and the government private companies are also known as commercial insurance companies. They are funded through premiu...