Insurance and Risk Management Questions and Answers Part-7

1. Assignment of life policy means ______________.
a) Transferring rights to the assignee
b) Policy holder is entitled to the paid up value
c) Paid up value is always higher than surrender value
d) Value payable on assured death or maturity

Answer: a

2. Risk insured against death is a contract of ______________.
a) Assurance
b) Agreement
c) Indemnity
d) Caveat Emptor

Answer: a

3. The risk which arises because of change in major economic, social, cultural and political factors are ______________.
a) ParticularRisk
b) Fundamental Risk
c) Speculative Risk
d) Dynamic Risk

Answer: b

4. When an event is stated to be possible, it has a probability between ______________.
a) Zero and One
b) Zero or One
c) None of these
d) Both of the above

Answer: a

5. If the premium loading is zero then purchasing insurance ______________
a) does not change the persons expected wealth
b) changes the persons expected wealth
c) increases the variability of wealth
d) no change in expected wealth

Answer: a

6. Insurance cover ______________.
a) Protect assets
b) Prevents loss
c) Reduces the impact of loss
d) Insurances immortality

Answer: c

7. Taylor Tobacco Company is concerned that the company may be held liable in a court of law and forced to pay a large damage award. The characteristics of the judicial system that increase the frequency and severity of losses is known as ______________.
a) moral hazard
b) particular risk
c) speculative risk
d) legal hazard

Answer: d

8. Bancassurance means ______________
a) Selling financial services
b) general liability insurance
c) Selling banking products
d) Selling Insurance Products

Answer: d

9. Credit Risk is high in case of ______________.
a) Companies
b) Partnership
c) Financial Institutions
d) None of these

Answer: c

10. A bancassurance concept originated in ______________.
a) England
b) Finland
c) France
d) Spain

Answer: c