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Insurable and Non-Insurable Risks

Generally a person can insure most things.  However there are some exceptions and exclusions.  For a risk to be insurable the following conditions must be present:

  • There must be an insurable interest in the thing or person being insured.

  • There must be a large number of similar risks being insured.

  • Any losses incurred must be accidental

  • The risk must not be too catastrophic for the insurance company i.e. the possible loss should not be so great as to ruin the insurance company

  • It must be possible to calculate the risk of a loss occurring.

  In the absence of any of these five conditions the risk is uninsurable.


 

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