Daftar perusahaan asuransi AS

Asuransi jiwa

Aetna
Allstate Insurance Company
American International Group
Aon Corporation, formerly known as Combined Insurance Company of America
Banner Life
John Hancock Insurance, now a unit of Manulife Financial
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
MONY Life Insurance Company, formerly known as Mutual of New York
Nationwide Insurance
New York Life
Prudential Financial
RBC
Sagicor USA, Inc., formerly known as American Founders Life
State Farm Insurance
Thrivent, formerly known as Lutheran Brotherhood
Travelers Group, now part of Citigroup

Asuransi kesehatan

Blue Cross/Blue Shield
The Regence Group
Regence BlueShield
Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
Regence BlueCross of Idaho
Premera BlueCross BlueShield of Utah
Premera Blue Cross
Harvard Community Health Plan
Aetna
CIGNA
GroupHealth
Humana Inc.
Medica
PacifiCare

Asuransi mobil

Geico
Progressive
Aflac
Pemco
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Liberty Mutual
Farmers Insurance
Allstate
Nationwide Insurance

Asuransi properti

Nationwide Insurance
Manulife Financial

Penolakan asuransi

Beberapa orang menganggap asuransi sebagai suatu bentuk taruhan yang berlaku selama periode kebijakan. Perusahaan asuransi bertaruh bahwa properti pembeli tidak akan hilang ketika pembeli membayarkan uangnya. Perbedaan di biaya yang dibayar kepada perusahaan asuransi melawan dengan jumlah yang dapat mereka terima bila kecelakaan terjadi hampir sama dengan bila seseorang bertaruh di balap kuda (misalnya, 10 banding 1).

Karena alasan ini, beberapa kelompok agama termasuk Amish menghindari asuransi dan bergantung kepada dukungan yang diterima oleh komunitas mereka ketika bencana terjadi. Di komunitas yang hubungan erat dan mendukung di mana orang-orangnya dapat saling membantu untuk membangun kembali properti yang hilang, rencana ini dapat bekerja. Kebanyakan masyarakat tidak dapat secara efektif mendukung sistem seperti di atas dan sistem ini tidak akan bekerja untuk risiko besar.

Prinsip dasar asuransi

Dalam dunia asuransi ada 6 macam prinsip dasar yang harus dipenuhi, yaitu :

1. Insurable interest Hak untuk mengasuransikan, yang timbul dari suatu hubungan keuangan, antara tertanggung dengan yang diasuransikan dan diakui secara hukum.
    
2. Utmost good faith Suatu tindakan untuk mengungkapkan secara akurat dan lengkap, semua fakta yang material (material fact) mengenai sesuatu yang akan diasuransikan baik diminta maupun tidak. Artinya adalah : si penanggung harus dengan jujur menerangkan dengan jelas segala sesuatu tentang luasnya syarat/kondisi dari asuransi dan si tertanggung juga harus memberikan keterangan yang jelas dan benar atas obyek atau kepentingan yang dipertanggungkan.
    
3. Proximate cause Suatu penyebab aktif, efisien yang menimbulkan rantaian kejadian yang menimbulkan suatu akibat tanpa adanya intervensi suatu yang mulai dan secara aktif dari sumber yang baru dan independen.
    
4. Indemnity Suatu mekanisme dimana penanggung menyediakan kompensasi finansial dalam upayanya menempatkan tertanggung dalam posisi keuangan yang ia miliki sesaat sebelum terjadinya kerugian (KUHD pasal 252, 253 dan dipertegas dalam pasal 278).
    
5. Subrogation Pengalihan hak tuntut dari tertanggung kepada penanggung setelah klaim dibayar.
    
6. Contribution Hak penanggung untuk mengajak penanggung lainnya yang sama-sama menanggung, tetapi tidak harus sama kewajibannya terhadap tertanggung untuk ikut memberikan indemnity.

insurance principles

Insurance involves pooling funds from many insured entities (known as exposures) to pay for the losses that some may incur. The insured entities are therefore protected from risk for a fee, with the fee being dependent upon the frequency and severity of the event occurring. In order to be insurable, the risk insured against must meet certain characteristics in order to be an insurable risk. Insurance is a commercial enterprise and a major part of the financial services industry, but individual entities can also self-insure through saving money for possible future losses.

whether it inscurance

Insurance is a risk management technique primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss that may be suffered by those individuals or entities who have an insurable interest in scarce resources, by transferring the possibility of this loss from one interested person, persons, or entity to another. The scarce resources referred to here fall into three divisions: human resources, financial resources, and capital, or tangible resources. In the context of insurance, scarce resources are also known as "exposures," because they are "exposed" to perils, those things, or forces, which cause destruction or redcuction, in the usefulness, or value, of an exposed resource.

Human resources are thus exposed to perils such as illness or death; financial resources to legal judgements that may result from negligent acts, and capital resources to physical perils such as fire, theft, windstorm, and vandalism, to name but a few. A hazard is the cause of a peril. It is that thing or condition which increases the likelihood of a peril. Thus perils and hazards are identified by the exposure that they threaten. For example a slippery roadway could be viewed as a financial hazard, capital hazard, or human hazard by automobile owners, and rightly so, since this condition increases the likelihood of an automobile accident that might result in an unfavorable legal judgement, automobile damage, and bodily injury.

In the context of commercial trade, insurance is further defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for consideration, payment, in the form of a risk premium. The insurance premium develops at an actuarily-determined rate. This rate is a factor used to determine the amount of premium to charge for a certain limit, and type, of insurance on the scarce resource. The premium can further be viewed as a guaranteed, known, relatively small financial loss to the insured, paid to the insurer, in exchange for the insurer's promise to compensate (indemnify) the insured in the case of a loss to the insured resource(s). The insured receives a contract, called the insurance policy, which details the conditions and circumstances under which the insured will be indemnified.