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In insurance claims, a total loss or write-off is a situation where the lost value, repair cost or salvage cost of a damaged property exceeds its insured value, and simply replacing the old property with a new equivalent is more cost-effective. [1] [2] Such a loss may be an "actual total loss" or a "constructive total loss".
Loss reserving is the calculation of the required reserves for a tranche of insurance business, [1] including outstanding claims reserves.. Typically, the claims reserves represent the money which should be held by the insurer so as to be able to meet all future claims arising from policies currently in force and policies written in the past.
For insurance, the loss ratio is the ratio of total losses incurred (paid and reserved) in claims plus adjustment expenses divided by the total premiums earned. [1] For example, if an insurance company pays $60 in claims for every $100 in collected premiums, then its loss ratio is 60% with a profit ratio/gross margin of 40% or $40.
Based on this example, an auto insurer would pay out a maximum of $1,500 for a diminished value claim on this vehicle. However, based on the damage and mileage, the final calculated estimate for a ...
Insurance companies may do this because it's not always possible to determine how badly a car is damaged — and how expensive the fix will be — before the repairs begin.
An insurance payout, or claims check, would follow a settlement between you and the adjuster for a specific amount of financial compensation to cover whatever damages occurred.
It got its IRDAI registration on 26 April 2012 and has been among the five private sector insurers to underwrite policies exclusively in health, personal accident and travel insurance segments. [10] In 2021, Religare Health Insurance had a claims settlement ratio of 95.2% [11] for the 2021 fiscal year.
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the due process clause usually limits punitive damage awards to less than ten times the size of the compensatory damages awarded and that punitive damage awards of four times the compensatory damage award is "close to the line of constitutional impropriety".