1000 Most Frequently Asked Insurance Questions - Ask Any Question on History and Evolution of Insurance

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Top Questions on The History and Evolution of Insurance


Q1. Which innovative product came into existence after liberalisation of Indian insurance sector?


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Q2. Who in India is the first private sector to launch Health Service Account (HSA)


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Q3. Medi-claim as a standardised form of Health insurance was first introduced in India by:k


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Q4. Which Insurer introduced for the first time, the concept of health Insurance?


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Q5. The central office of LIC of India is located at ________


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Q6. In which year, the Private Sector was allowed to solicit insurance Business in India?


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Q7. Which among the given civilizations were the first to have life insurance?


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Q8. Insurance as a technique of providing protection against losses due to the fortuitous events for a consideration had its origin in _________:


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Q9. Which is India's First Housing Sector Insurance Company?


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Q10. When was the first Insurance contract was signed?


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Q11. The oldest Type of Modern insurance in written in the form of?


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Q12. What was / were the step /s taken just after the Great Fire of London in 1966 to counter such events in future?


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Q13. Who introduced Salary Saving Scheme in India?


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Q14. Which of the following olden practices, can truly, represents what a modern concept of Insurance is?


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Q15. When Lloyd was formed?


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Q16. Which country has the oldest record of doing Insurance business?


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Q17. Which amongst the 4 nationalised insurance company in India is the oldest?


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Q18. Which of the following is one of the oldest form of insurance that gave birth to the concept of General Average in Marine Insurance?


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Q19. Which is Indias First Housing Sector Insurance Company?


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Q20. The earliest transactions of insurance as practised today is traced in which country?


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Q21. Insurance as a technique of providing protection against maritime adventure, had its origin in?


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Q22. When was the first Insurance contract was signed?


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Q23. The oldest Type of Modern insurance in written in the form of?


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Q24. Which Public Sector organisation predominently provides Agriculture Insurance in India?


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Q25. What was / were the step /s taken just after the Great Fire of London in 1966 to counter such events in future?


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Q26. Who introduced Salary Saving Scheme in India?


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Q27. Which of the following olden practices, can truly, represents what a modern concept of Insurance is?


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Q28. When Lloyd was formed?


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Q29. Which country has the oldest record of doing Insurance business?


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Q30. Who first used the word "premium"?


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Q31. How the probability of occurrance of an event is measured?


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Q32. While prioritising risks, risks are classified into 5 categories. Identify them?


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Q33. Which are the risks to be addressed first?


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Q34. How risk related to weather conditions with large probability of impact, can be covered with insurance??


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Q35. What is Arson?


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Q36. Concentration of risk is dangerous- Explain


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Q37. What is Systematic Risk?


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Q38. Some examples of Bilogical Hazards:


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Q39. Give some examples of operational Risk ?


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Q40. What is Pure Risk?


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Q41. When a factory establishment need to appoint a qualified Safety Officer?


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Q42. The word Peril is commonly used in the insurance industry. What does Peril means?h


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Q43. What is defined as Hostile Fire?


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Q44. Can outsourcing of activities is the best way to reduce risk?


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Q45. Explain the process of Risk Management


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Q46. What is the ISO standard, if any, for risk managemen?


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Q47. Explain Chronic Losses:


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Q48. What are the different risk identification techniques?


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Q49. Explain Risk retention techniques:


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Q50. Why most of the Management Assumptions requires risk Analysis?


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Q51. How losses cause due to risk are controlled or mitigated by an Organisation?


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Q52. How an organisation attempt to reduce the impact of loss from various risk?


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Q53. Explain what is Fire Load


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Q54. Which Occupancies is considered having Higher Fire Load?


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Q55. How Technological changes can affect the organisational Risks?


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Q56. Can Insurance really reduce or control Risk?


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Q57. What is risk acceptance?


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Q58. What do you mean by Adverse selection in the insurance industry?


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Q59. In a Cost-Benefit Analysis which one is easier to calculate? Cost or Benefit


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Q60. Can you make profit out of insuranace cover?


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Q61. Why Speculative Risks are not insurable?


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Q62. What kind of risk are insurable?


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Q63. Clearly explain the difference between Risk, Peril and Hazard:


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Q64. What is Act of God? Does acts of God are insurable?


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Q65. No Risk should be ignored - Explain


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Q66. Which method can reduce the risk to Zero or almost Zero?


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Q67. What is Risk Tolerance?


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Q68. What type of risk can be avoided altogether?


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Q69. What is Contractual Risk Transfer?


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Q70. How you can protect an organisation against contingencies associated with future loss events?


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Q71. How to evaluate the effectiveness of the product liability risk management program?


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Q72. Explain Business impact analysis (BIA):


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Q73. What are the units of measurements done in Business Impact Analysis?


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Q74. What should be the focus of the management during emergency response phase?


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Q75. How the rule of probabilities is applied in risk management?


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Q76. Explain Crisis Management stages


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Q77. Explain Insurative Model that is used as an analytical framework.


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Q78. What is standard operating procedure (SOP)?


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Q79. What is used to calculate the present value of past losses and future losses in various scenarios?


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Q80. What Fault-tree can identify?


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Q81. Explain Moral Hazard


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Q82. Give some examples of Fundamental Risk


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Q83. A Court judgement may cause huge penalty- Can such a risk is insurable?


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Q84. In what type of risk, losses are more predictable then others?


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Q85. Give some examples of Market Risk:


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Q86. Define Theft:


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Q87. Which risk is controllable by Management?


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Q88. Which Risk management approach attempts to optimize risk coverage for assets as well as Liabilities of an organisation?


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Q89. How you can reduce insurance cost when total loss of an assets is virtually impossible?


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Q90. What is Risk Diversification strategy?


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Q91. The risk which arises because of change in major economic, social, cultural and political factors are known as?


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Q92. Which activity is carried out in Risk evaluation and Assessment stage?


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Q93. In case of a major disaster, the immediate objective of an organisation would be:


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Q94. Explain Insurance securitization


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Q95. How are risks measured?


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Q96. An un-insured person does not consume the risk unto himself/herself, rather:


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Q97. Which one is an example of Retrospective Finite Risk re-insurance?


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Q98. Which industry extensively use HAZOP approach?


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Q99. Which loss is having the nature of resisting any corrective measures and are difficult to eliminate??


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Q100. What is sporadic losses?


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