TDB:
See Temporary Disability Benefits:
Tabular:
Of or pertaining to a table: Tabular cost is the cost of mortality,
morbidity, or other claims, according to the valuation tables
and assumptions used by the insurer:
Tabular Plan:
A retrospective rating plan, which uses tables to furnish the
various values for the rating formula:
Target Risk:
(1) Certain high-value bridges, tunnels, and fine art collections
that are excluded from an automatic reinsurance contract to permit
specific handling of the capacity problem and to release the reinsurer
from the potential heavy accumulation of liability on any one
risk: (2) A large, hazardous risk on which insurance is difficult
to place: (3) A large, attractive risk that is considered a target
for competing insurance companies:
Tariff Rate:
A rate established by a rating organization, which comes from
the tables, schedules and rules found in the tariff of rates:
Temporary Agent:
A person who is licensed to act as an agent for a brief period
of time (usually 90 days) without taking a written examination:
Temporary licenses are commonly granted to allow someone to continue
the business of an agent who has died, become disabled, or entered
active military service:
Term:
The period of time for which a policy or bond is issued:
Term Rule:
The provision in a rating manual which states the periods for
which coverages run, and discounts, if any, which apply to the
rates or premiums of policies issued for more than one year:
Termination:
The time the coverage under an insurance policy ends, either because
its term has expired or because it has been cancelled by either
party:
Territorial Limitation:
See Geographical Limitation:
Theory of Probability:
The mathematical principle upon which insurance is based: See
also Degree of Risk, Law or Large Numbers, Odds, and Probability:
Third Party Beneficiary:
A person who is not a party to a contract but who has legally
enforceable rights under the contract: It might be a Life Insurance
beneficiary, or a mortgagee:
Tickler:
A reminder system used to call an individual's attention to actions
that must be taken at a future point in time:
Time Limits:
The limits of time within which notice of a claim and proof of
a loss must be submitted:
Title Insurance:
Insurance which indemnifies the owner of real estate in the event
that his clear ownership of property is challenged by the discovery
of faults in the title that was passed to him:
Total Loss:
A loss of sufficient size so that it can be said there is nothing
left of value: The complete destruction of the property: The term
is also used to mean a loss requiring the maximum amount a policy
will pay:
Transacting Insurance:
The solicitation, inducement, and preliminary negotiations effecting
a contract of insurance and the subsequent carrying on of business
pertaining to it: The exact definition will vary somewhat according
to the state laws regulating insurance:
Transfer of Risk:
Shifting all or part of a risk to another party: Insurance is
the most common method of risk transfer, but other devices, such
as hold harmless agreements, also transfer risk: One of the four
major risk management techniques: See Risk Management:
Traumatic Injury:
An injury to a person's physical body caused by an outside source,
as distinct from physical disability caused by sickness or disease:
Trustee:
A person appointed to manage the property of another:
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