Insurance and Risk Management Questions and Answers Part-8

1. When the subject matter insured is destroyed wholly refers to ______________.
a) Partial loss
b) Actual total loss
c) Constructive total loss
d) Maximum loss

Answer: b

2. Marine perils is also called as ______________.
a) Perils of the Sea
b) Moral Hazards
c) MarineClause
d) Marinelaws

Answer: a

3. ______________ is a document which provides evidence of the contract of insurance
a) Proposal form
b) Policy form
c) Cover note
d) Certificate of insurance

Answer: b

4. Insurance is a risk management technique involving ______________.
a) Risktransfer
b) Riskretention
c) Riskavoidance
d) Losscontrol

Answer: a

5. Which of the following helps in Risk improvement?
a) Fire brigade
b) Salvage crops
c) Engineers who survey property to be insured
d) Ambulance

Answer: c

6. The business of insurance is related to protection of ______________.
a) Savings
b) Status
c) Profits
d) Economic value of assets

Answer: d

7. Loss control involves a combination of ______________.
a) effort and time
b) fund and time
c) funds effort or time
d) effort and fund

Answer: c

8. . An insurance company estimates its objective risk for 10,000 exposures at 10 Per cent. Assuming the probability of loss remains the same, what would happen to the objective risk if the number of exposures were to increase to 1 million?
a) It would decrease to 1 percent
b) It would decrease to 5 percent
c) It would remain the same
d) It would increase to 20 percent

Answer: a

9. All of the following are social costs associated with insurance Except ______________.
a) increased cost of capital
b) the expense of doing business
c) fraudulent claims
d) inflated claims

Answer: a

10. Risk of premature death is a ______________.
a) Financial Risk
b) Dynamic Risk
c) Subjective Risk
d) Personal Risk

Answer: d