Insurance MCQ Questions and Solutions with Explanations | Commerce

HLV concept helps to determine the Upper limit beyond which life insurance could be speculative. HLV helps to determine how much insurance one should have for full protection. It also tells us the upper limit beyond which life insurance would be speculative.

Life Insurance covers the risk of dying too early and living too longer.

Personal Accident is not a contract of indemnity. Type of insurance cover (such as property insurance, but not personal accident insurance) that only restores the insured to his or her original financial position. The insured cannot gain from a contract of indemnity.

In Life Insurance type of contract, the happening of event is certain but its timing is not known. The event insured against is sure to happen only the time of its happening is not known.

Life insurance is possible because Death is certain but its timing is uncertain.

With increase in premium with age, healthy people tended to withdraw leaving unhealthy people. This lead to development of Level premiums. Level-premium insurance is term life insurance for which the premiums are guaranteed to remain the same throughout the contract, while the amount of coverage provided increases.

Both the statements are correct.
Life insurance is a long term contract and General insurance is a short term contract. Traditional life insurance contracts include whole life, term life, annuities in payout status, long-term care and disability income. General insurance is a contract that covers any risk other than the risk of life. These contracts are of short term in nature - generally one year - and therefore, the policy renewal is required every year.

Life insurance policy, in general, is a mixture of Protection and Savings. Life insurance plans are good tax-saving instruments. All the premiums you pay under a term plan are exempt from income tax deductions as per section 80C.

Both the statements are incorrect.
Mutuality is the principle of private, commercial insurance; individuals enter the pool for sharing losses, and pay according to the best estimate of the risk they bring with them and Diversification is a risk management strategy that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio.

The person who makes the offer is called the Proposer and the person who accepts the offer in an insurance contract is called the Insurer.