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GLOSSARY

Business Decision

As related to the Business Judgment Rule, action must be taken in making business decisions. Not taking action is protected if it results from a

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Business Ethics

Knowing what is right or wrong in the workplace and then doing what is right; fundamental ground rules of our work lives; the process of

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Business Judgment Rule

Single most powerful defense available to a director or officer and recognizes that not all decisions of the directors or officers will benefit the organization

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Buy-Sell Agreement

An arrangement for the orderly disposition or transfer of a business interest that spells out what events specifically trigger the disposition of the business interest

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Cancellable Policy

A policy, typically disability insurance or long-term care insurance, that can be cancelled at any time, or at a specified time, by the insurer.

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Captive Expenses

Include management and acquisition expenses, domicile expenses such as annual licensing fees, actuarial expense, letter of credit expense, and other expenses not related to losses.

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Captive Insurer

A closely held insurance company whose insurance business is supplied by and controlled by its owners and in which the insureds are the beneficiaries (adapted

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Captive Pool

Group of individually owned captives that combine to re-insure one another; risk sharing among captives. See Pooling.

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CAS

Professional society for actuaries in areas of insurance work other than life insurance. This society grants the designation of Associate and Fellow of the Casualty

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Case Management

A team that carefully reviews and monitors the entire treatment process when unusually high expenses are projected or incurred for a condition.

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Case Reserve

Amount the claims adjuster puts on an individual claim that has not yet been paid; there is no provision for development and IBNR (incurred but

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Cash Discounting

Used to prepare cost-benefit analyses to determine the present value (or today’s value) of a future cash flow and/or determine the future value (or tomorrow’s

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Cash Flow

Measure of cash flowing through an organization arising from operations, financing, and investing activities.

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Cash Flow Plan

Insurance plans or retention plans that allow the insured, rather than an insurance carrier, to derive benefits from holding unused funds, either in the form

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Causality

In statistics, the relationship between one variable and another variable where the second variable is a direct consequence of the first.

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CDHC

CDHC or Consumer-Driven Healthcare – Originated in the late 1990’s with the intention of increasing healthcare consumer awareness of the rising cost of healthcare by

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Ceding Commission

Commission paid by the re-insurer to the primary insurer for the placement of the reinsurance. It is analogous to the commission paid to the producer

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