2 - Nature of Insurance, Risk, Perils and Hazards

Insurance companies determine risk exposure by which of the following?

Law of large numbers and risk pooling

Which of these are considered to be events or conditions that increase the chances of an insured's loss?

Hazards

People with higher loss exposure have the tendency to purchase insurance more often than those at average risk. This is called

adverse selection

Which of these techniques will remove the risk of losing money in the stock market by never purchasing stocks?

Risk avoidance

How do insurers predict the increase of individual risks?

Law of large numbers

An example of risk sharing would be

Doctors pooling their money to cover malpractice exposures

Which of these techniques will remove the risk of losing money in the stock market by never purchasing stocks?

Risk avoidance