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  1. Self-insure

  2. Settlement Date

  3. Single Interest Insurance

  4. Single-Life Payout

  5. Single-Premium Deferred Annuity - SPDA

  6. Single-Premium Life Insurance

  7. Soft Paper Report

  8. Special Needs Trust

  9. Special Warranty Deed

  10. Sprinkling Provision

  11. State Guaranty Fund

  12. State Medicaid Program

  13. Statutory Liability

  14. Statutory Reserves

  15. Straight Life Annuity

  16. Stranger-Owned Life Insurance - STOLI

  17. Subrogation

  18. Substandard Health Annuity

  19. Substandard Insurance

  20. Surrender Charge

  21. Surrender Fee

  22. Surrender Period

  23. Surrender Rights

  24. Survival Analysis

  25. Takaful

  26. Tandem Plan

  27. Term Certain Annuity

  28. Term Life Insurance

  29. Testamentary Will

  30. Third-Party Claims Administrator

  31. Third-Party Insurance

  32. Timeshare

  33. Title Binder

  34. Title Insurance

  35. Tomijiro Morita

  36. Traditional Whole Life Policy

  37. Transfer of Mortgage

  38. Transfer Of Risk

  39. Transfer-For-Value Rule

  40. Transferable Insurance Policies - TIPS

  41. Travel Insurance

  42. Trust-Owned Life Insurance - TOLI

  43. Tuition Insurance

  44. Uberrimae Fidei Contract

  45. Ultimate Mortality Table

  46. Ultimate Net Loss

  47. Umbrella Insurance Policy

  48. Umbrella Personal Liability Policy

  49. Umpire Clause

  50. Unallocated Benefit

  51. Unauthorized Insurance

  52. Unauthorized Insurer

  53. Unbundled Life Insurance Policy

  54. Underinsurance

  55. Underinsured Motorist Coverage

  56. Underinsured Motorist Endorsement

  57. Underlying Mortality Assumption

  58. Underlying Retention

  59. Underwriting

  60. Underwriting Cycle

  61. Underwriting Fees

  62. Underwriting Income

  63. Underwriting Risk

  64. Unearned Premium

  65. Unemployment Claim

  66. Unemployment Compensation

  67. Unemployment Insurance

  68. Unfair Claims Practice

  69. Uniform Individual Accident And Sickness Policy Provisions Act

  70. Uniform Policy Provisions, Health Insurance

  71. Uninsurable Peril

  72. Uninsurable Property

  73. Uninsurable Risk

  74. Uninsured Certificate Of Deposit

  75. Uninsured Motorist Coverage - UM

  76. Unintentional Tort

  77. Unisex Legislation

  78. Unit Linked Insurance Plan - ULIP

  79. United States Aircraft Insurance Group - USAIG

  80. United States Government Life Insurance - USGLI

  81. Universal Health Care Coverage

  82. Universal Life Insurance

  83. Unrecorded Deed

  84. Unscheduled Property Floater

  85. Unsolicited Application

  86. Up-Front Mortgage Insurance - UFMI

  87. Use and Occupancy Insurance – U&O

  88. Validation Period

  89. Valuable Papers Insurance

  90. Valuation Clause

  91. Valuation Mortality Table

  92. Valuation Premium

  93. Valuation Reserve

  94. Value Reporting Form

  95. Valued Marine Policy

  96. Valued Policy Law - VPL

  97. Values

  98. Vandalism And Malicious Mischief Insurance

  99. Vandalism Endorsement

  100. Vanishing Premium

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  1. Validation Period

    The amount of time necessary for the premium on an insurance policy to cover the commissions, the cost of investigation, medical exams and other expenses associated with the issuance of the policy.

  2. Winner's Curse

    Because of incomplete information, emotions or any other number of factors regarding the item being auctioned, bidders can have a difficult time determining the item's intrinsic value. As a result, the largest overestimation of an item's value ends up winning the auction.

  3. Glocalization

    A combination of the words "globalization" and "localization" used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally, but is also fashioned to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market.

  4. Disaster Loss

    A special type of tax-deductible loss, similar to a casualty loss, where a loss has been incurred by taxpayers who reside in an area that has been designated as a federal disaster area by the President.

  5. Fool In The Shower

    The notion that changes or policies designed to alter the course of the economy should be done slowly, rather than all at once.

  6. Pattern Day Trader

    An SEC designation for traders who trade the same security four or more times per day (buys and sells) over a five-day period, and for whom same-day trades make up at least 6% of their activity for that period.
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