insurer
- noun
- /ɪnˈsɜːrər/
- Before signing the contract, it's important to understand what your insurer covers.
- health insurers
- auto insurers
- private insurers
Not the government, not our insurer, not our employer.
- Not the government, not our insurer, not our employer.
- The idea being insurers pay a lot of money for covering drugs.
- But actually private insurers have done very well in Medicare.
- Greensill would then package these short term loans into notes, some of which were insured by credit insurers.
- Everyone with the same insurer pays the same premium, regardless of age and health status.
- Apparently Travels insurance does something like this, but instead of it being the car that's relaying the information back to the insurer, it's an app.
- That's a government run health insurance plan that would compete, compete alongside of private insurers in at least some of the exchanges, maybe in all of them.
- It became a very large automobile insurer and also a travel insurance company.
- When stocks gapped down like this, portfolio insurers models prompted them to sell.
- And some insurers, some insurers will cover some diagnosis and not others.
Examples
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Managed competition relies on insurers and employers to control the direction of health care reform.
Academic text (1993) -
As a consequence, insurers began writing complete pollution exclusions into their new corporate insurance policies.
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Because your insurer knows when you have an accident.
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Once the commissioner's decision is final, an insurer must charge only the approved rate.
Academic text (2017) -
I need a report on the car for the insurers.
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Difficult though setting limits to healthcare is, doctors, insurers, and society must be able to draw the line somewhere.
Academic text (1994) -
Most private insurers provide limited, if any, coverage for long-term care in the home.
Academic text (1994) -
Accordingly, the insurer was not liable to pay insurance proceeds to the insured as the plaintiff.
Academic text (2017) -
Nothing serious, but enough for the city's health insurers to disqualify me.
Fiction book (1991) -
What kinds of requirements will Medicaid and other insurers impose for reimbursement in school settings?
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
A business that pays money to people for losses when they pay regular fees
A person or company that checks risk and sells insurance
A company that pays people money when something bad happens after they pay for protection
A company that decides whether to accept risks and sells insurance to protect people or businesses
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Etymology
The word insurer comes from insure, which is related to the simple word sure meaning 'safe' or 'certain'. An insurer is a person or company that promises to pay if something goes wrong, so the origin helps you remember that an insurer makes you more 'sure' by giving protection.