Property
Main article: Property insurance
This tornado damage to an Illinois home would be considered an "Act of God" for insurance purposes
Property insurance provides protection against risks to property, such as fire, theft or weather damage. This may include specialized forms of insurance such as fire insurance, flood insurance, earthquake insurance, home insurance, inland marine insurance or boiler insurance. The term property insurance...
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Accident, sickness and unemployment insurance
Workers' compensation, or employers' liability insurance, is compulsory in some countries
Disability insurance
policies provide financial support in the event of the policyholder
becoming unable to work because of disabling illness or injury. It
provides monthly support to help pay such obligations as mortgage loans and credit cards.
Short-term and long-term disability policies are available...
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Health insurance
Main articles: Health insurance and Dental insurance
Great Western Hospital, Swindon
Health insurance policies cover the cost of medical treatments.
Dental insurance, like medical insurance protects policyholders for
dental costs. In the US and Canada, dental insurance is often part of an
employer's benefits package, along with health insuran...
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Auto insurance
Main article: Vehicle insurance
A wrecked vehicle in Copenhagen
Auto insurance protects the policyholder against financial loss in
the event of an incident involving a vehicle they own, such as in a traffic collision.
Coverage typically includes:
Property coverage, for damage to or theft of the car;
Liability coverage, for the legal responsibility to others for bodily injury or property damage;
Medical coverage, for the...
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Types of insurance
Any risk that can be quantified can potentially be insured. Specific
kinds of risk that may give rise to claims are known as perils. An
insurance policy will set out in detail which perils are covered by the
policy and which are not. Below are non-exhaustive lists of the many
different types of insurance that exist. A single policy may cover risks
in one or more of the categories set out below. For example,...
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Some forms of insurance had developed in London by the early decades of the 17th century. For example, the will of the English colonist Robert Hayman
mentions two "policies of insurance" taken out with the diocesan
Chancellor of London, Arthur Duck. Of the value of £100 each, one
relates to the safe arrival of Hayman's ship in Guyana and the other is
in regard to "one hundred pounds assured by the said Doctor Arthur Ducke
on my life". Hayman's...
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History of insurance
Main article: History of insurance
In some sense we can say that insurance appears simultaneously with
the appearance of human society. We know of two types of economies in
human societies: natural or non-monetary economies (using barter and
trade with no centralized nor standardized set of financial instruments)
and more modern monetary economies (with markets, currency, financial
instruments and so on). The former is...
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