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Insurance Terms

  1. Abandonment And Salvage

  2. Abandonment Clause

  3. Abeyance

  4. Absolute Beneficiary

  5. Accelerated Benefits

  6. Accelerated Death Benefit - ADB

  7. Accelerated Option

  8. Acceleration Life Insurance

  9. Accelerative Endowment

  10. Accident And Sickness Insurance Act

  11. Accident-Year Statistics

  12. Accidental Death And Dismemberment Insurance - AD&D

  13. Accidental Death Benefit

  14. Accommodation Endorsement

  15. Accommodation Line

  16. Account Current

  17. Accounts Receivable Insurance

  18. Accredited Advisor In Insurance - AAI

  19. Accumulated Value

  20. Accumulation Option

  21. Act Of God Bond

  22. Active Retention

  23. Actual Authority

  24. Actual Cash Value

  25. Actual Total Loss

  26. Actuarial Adjustment

  27. Actuarial Age

  28. Actuarial Assumption

  29. Actuarial Equity

  30. Actuarial Life Table

  31. Actuarial Rate

  32. Actuarial Risk

  33. Actuarial Science

  34. Actuarial Service

  35. Actuary

  36. Add To Cash Value Option

  37. Addendum

  38. Additional Death Benefit

  39. Additional Insured

  40. Additional Living Expense Insurance

  41. Adequacy Of Coverage

  42. Adhesion Contract

  43. Adjustable Life Insurance

  44. Adjustable Premium

  45. Adjusted Liabilities

  46. Adjusted Net Worth

  47. Adjusted Premium

  48. Adjusted Premium Method

  49. Adjusted Surplus

  50. Adjusted Underwriting Profit

  51. Adjuster

  52. Adjustment Income

  53. Adjustment Provision

  54. Administrative Charge

  55. Administrative Services Only - ASO

  56. Admitted Assets

  57. Admitted Company

  58. Admitted Insurance

  59. Advance Premium

  60. Advance Premium Fund

  61. Advance Premium Mutual

  62. Advanced Life Underwriting

  63. Adverse Selection

  64. Affordable Care Act

  65. Against All Risks - AAR

  66. Aggregate Limit

  67. Aggregate Mortality Table

  68. Aggregate Product Liability Limit

  69. Aggregate Stop-Loss Insurance

  70. Agreed Amount Clause

  71. Air Cargo Insurance

  72. Alaska Trust Act

  73. Aleatory Contract

  74. Alien Insurer

  75. All Risks

  76. Alliance Of American Insurers - AAI

  77. Allied Lines

  78. Allocated Funding Instrument

  79. Alphabet Broker

  80. Alternate Beneficiary

  81. Alternative Dispute Resolution

  82. Alternative Risk Financing Facilities

  83. Ambulance Chaser

  84. American Agency System

  85. American Council Of Life Insurance

  86. American Experience Table

  87. American Insurance Association - AIA

  88. American Land Title Association - ALTA

  89. American Risk and Insurance Association

  90. Amount at Risk

  91. Ancillary Benefits

  92. Annual Convention Blank

  93. Annual Dividend - Insurance

  94. Annual Premium Equivalent - APE

  95. Annual Renewable Term (ART) Insurance

  96. Annuitant

  97. Annuity Consideration

  98. Annuity Contract

  99. Any-Occupation Policy

  100. Appleton Rule

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