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What is a Homeowners Insurance Policy?

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Introduction

Homeowners insurance also commonly known as home insurance, is a type of property insurance that covers the damages to an individual’s home, along with furnishings and other assets in the home. It helps to provide financial protection for losses to a residence and other personal belongings. Homeowners insurance also pays liability coverage against accidents that occur in residential premises.

Homeowners policy usually includes loss of interior damage, exterior damage, damage of personal assets, and injuries that arise on the insured residential property. We will discuss some more points about the Homeowners Insurance Policy.

How does […]

Lightning Datatable Jump Issue On Row Actions

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SalesForce Lightning

SalesForce Lightning is a new advanced platform for SalesForce users to build extensive experiences. It is a component-based framework with some other tools to develop applications for users. Even users with no coding knowledge can use the already existing Lightning applications present. Though Lightning is highly extensive with new features, there are bugs in some of the new features provided by Lightning. One of them is in the Lightning datatable i.e if we delete the last row from the datatable using row actions then the control jumps to the last column of the second […]

Why do insurance companies fail?

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Introduction

Insurance is the “promise” that insurers make to policyholders in exchange for premiums. The insurance industry is built on policyholder’s confidence that insurance contracts will be fulfilled and eligible claims paid. For consumers, the purchase of insurance is a key component of how they manage their financial risk. Consumer confidence in the industry is, therefore, insurance is closely linked to confidence in the solvency of their financial institutions.

Insolvency arises when insufficient assets and capital are in place to cover the claims liabilities incurred. Insurer liquidation shows claimers and policyholders to the risk of unexpected financial […]

What is Policy Binding?

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In the insurance industry, policy binding refers to insurance coverage, and means that coverage is in place even if the policy has yet to be issued by the insurer. Often, binding takes place through a verbal agreement, in person or over the telephone between you and your agent or insurer. It can also occur through electronic communication, such as an email or text message, though laws regarding e-commerce and digital signatures vary by state, and are subject to rapid change as technology progresses […]

What is BI (Bodily Injury) coverage?

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Bodily Injury (BI) includes bodily harm, sickness, or disease, including resulting death. Bodily Injury in P&C insurance (like in auto insurance) refers to the other person’s injury – who suffers injury because of the insured. Like if A has car insurance and A, while driving his car, hits B, and B gets injured, then BI means injury to B and the insurance of A has to pay for B’s medical expenses. Bodily injury liability coverage helps pay for another person’s expenses if you injure them in a car accident. This type of coverage typically […]

What is PIP (personal injury protection)?

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Personal injury protection (PIP), also known as “no-fault insurance” in US (applicable to no-fault states)  is a component of an automobile insurance plan that covers the medical expenses of the insured and passengers associated with a car accident. PIP covers medical expenses for both injured policyholders and passengers, even if some don’t have health insurance. PIP is mandatory in no-fault states. In those states where it is not mandatory, insurer will not pay for the medical expenses of the insured and passengers, so in such a case a separate accident policy can be taken by the […]

Compulsory Deductible versus Voluntary Deductible

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The insurance deductible is the amount of money you will pay in an insurance claim before the insurance coverage kicks in. Like if your deductible is US $300 and your claim is US $2000, company will ask you to pay US $300 and then the rest will be paid by the company. Once you pay your deductible the insurance company will pay you the rest of the claim value up to the policy limits.

A deductible protects the insurance company against unnecessary and large number of small claims (hence saving paper work, time and money). This also ensures that people […]

Who is an Insured?

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Insured is a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy, means he/she is the person who has got the insurance done for his/her interests (interests means the life or assets for which the insurance is purchased). An alternative but similar wording is – a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health

What is Named Insured?

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The name of “named insured” is mentioned there in the policy as an insured. A Named Insured is any person, firm, or organization, or any of its members specifically designated by name as an insured(s) in an insurance policy. This is different from others who are insured but their name is not mentioned in the policy (like sometimes “child” is also insured but the name of the child is not mentioned, so in this case the child is not named insured […]

What does ADDITIONAL INTEREST mean in Auto insurance?

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Introduction

In insurance terminology, Additional Interest means an uninsured or insured third party that is named in the insurance policy as having an interest in the insurance policy of the holder. For instance: if there is any change made in the policy of the insuree (any modification or cancellation) of the policy, the party who has been labeled as additional interest is notified of the said change.

It basically means that someone who is not directly involved in the insurance but gets affected by the changes made by the insurance policy. However, this term can indicate a different […]

What is a Personal Auto Insurance Policy?

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Introduction

A personal auto policy also known as PAP is an insurance policy that is purchased by a vehicle owner to provide insurance coverage for damage or injury to others, in the form of liability insurance. Along with the liability coverage, it can also provide coverage for injuries or damages to the insured. Personal auto insurance policy is a contract between the vehicle owner and the insurance company that protects the owner against financial loss in the event of an accident or theft. The name of the policy clarifies that only personal motor vehicles that are not primarily […]

What does mortgage insurance mean?

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Introduction

A mortgage is defined as a loan from a bank or other financial institution that helps a borrower to purchase a property. The borrower and the lender(usually a bank) enter into an agreement. According to this agreement the borrower receives cash in advance from the bank(or lender) then makes payments over a set time span until he/she pays back the lender in full. A mortgage is usually referred to as a home loan when it is used for the purchase of a home. The guarantee for the mortgage loan is the home itself. It […]

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