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Insurance Terms

  1. Loss Payee

  2. Loss Ratio

  3. Loss Settlement Amount

  4. Macro Risk

  5. Maintenance Bond

  6. Malpractice Insurance

  7. Maritime Law

  8. Maturity Guarantee

  9. Medicaid

  10. Medical Cost Ratio

  11. Medical Expenses

  12. Medical Savings Account - MSA

  13. Medicare

  14. Medicare And Medicaid Fraud

  15. Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act Of 1988 - MCCA

  16. Medicare Doughnut Hole

  17. Medicare Hold Harmless Provision

  18. Medicare Part B Premiums

  19. Medicare Part D

  20. Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance - SMI

  21. Microinsurance

  22. Mirror Fund

  23. Modified Endowment Contract - MEC

  24. Modified Payoff

  25. Monoline Insurance Company

  26. Monopolistic State Fund

  27. Morbidity Rate

  28. Mortality And Expense Risk Charge

  29. Mortality Table

  30. Mortgage Insurance

  31. Mortgage Life Insurance

  32. Multiline Insurance

  33. Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund

  34. Named Beneficiary

  35. Named Perils Insurance Policy

  36. National Association Of Insurance And Financial Advisors - NAIFA

  37. National Association of Insurance Commissioners - NAIC

  38. National Insurance Contributions - NIC

  39. National Organization Of Life And Health Insurance Guaranty Associations - NOLHGA

  40. Needs Approach

  41. No-Load Annuity

  42. No-Load Life Insurance

  43. Non-Contestability Clause

  44. Non-Scheduled Personal Property

  45. Non-Security

  46. Nonforfeiture Clause

  47. Nonledger Asset

  48. Occupancy Fraud

  49. Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency - OCC

  50. Office Of The Superintendent Of Financial Institutions - OSFI

  51. Opinion Of Title

  52. Overcapitalization

  53. Own-Occupation Policy

  54. Participating Policy

  55. Past Service

  56. Payable Through Draft

  57. Peak Debt

  58. Pension Maximization

  59. Period Of Indemnity

  60. Permanent Life Insurance

  61. Pet Insurance

  62. Pink Slip Party

  63. PLUS Loan

  64. Policy Loan

  65. Portability

  66. Portable Benefits

  67. Portfolio Insurance

  68. Pre-Existing Condition

  69. Preferred Provider Organization – PPO

  70. Premium Income

  71. Prepaid Insurance

  72. Primary Beneficiary

  73. Primary Insurance Amount - PIA

  74. Private Mortgage Insurance - PMI

  75. Product Recall Insurance

  76. Professional Liability Insurance

  77. Property Insurance

  78. Provincial Parental Insurance Plan - PPIP

  79. Pujo Committee

  80. Pure Risk

  81. Qualified Mortgage Insurance Premium

  82. Ramani Ayer

  83. Reinstatement

  84. Reinsurance Sidecar

  85. Renewable Term

  86. Renter's Insurance

  87. Replacement Property

  88. Reproduction Cost

  89. Reversionary Annuities

  90. Revocable Beneficiary

  91. Rider

  92. Risk-Based Deposit Insurance

  93. Safe Deposit Box

  94. Savings Association Insurance Fund - SAIF

  95. Scheduled Personal Property

  96. SEC Form N-6

  97. Second-To-Die Insurance

  98. Secondary Beneficiary

  99. Select Mortality Table

  100. Self-Build Insurance

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