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Definition

Remuneration is the payment of a service rendered. This includes any bonuses and salaries. Remuneration is typically in monetary terms but sometimes the compensation is in replacement of the loss.
A recompense for a loss; compensation

In the context of insurance

In the context of insurance, remuneration or compensation means been paid out when the act you are insured for happens.
It is often hard to see insurance as a service, but that is exactly what it is.
And you need to confirm beforehand how your insurance company will be remunerating you.

Often you can assume that because you are insured for $xx.xx that you will receive that amount. But that is not always the case. The insurance company might offer a monthly remuneration, or to remunerate only when a certain event occurs.

Insurance remuneration

In some cases the remuneration might not as you expect it. Some examples would be:

• Auto Insurance, (Accident). The insurance company will only remunerate the ’scrap’ value of the vehicle.
• Auto Insurance, (Theft). The insurance company will only remunerate you in 3 or 6 months in the hope of the car been recovered.
• Auto Insurance. The insurance company will remunerate what ever is cheaper, (and often less advantageous for you), repair of the vehicle or scrap value or even book value.
• Recreation vehicle insurance. You might have to prove that you used the vehicle within the manufacturer limits. Something that is almost always impossible to achieve.

Remuneration vs Compensation

Remuneration is the payment for a service or to recompense for losses. Insurance can be viewed as a service.
Compensation is the act of compensating, or the act of receiving remuneration.
In the context of insurance both terms are interchangeable. You either get compensated for your losses or the insurance company offers you remuneration for your losses.

Conclusion

When it comes to insurance remuneration you need to make sure that you have all the facts.

• How will the insurance pay you out?
• Are the expectations realistic, (what you need to prove)?
• Is the waiting time before remuneration too long?

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When you want to purchase a life insurance policy, you really do need to do a life insurance comparison. This is to ensure that you get the best possible rates and the best possible life insurance for your needs. Different life insurance companies sell different types of policies so you need to do a life insurance comparison of all the different types available. You also want to get a policy with low cost premiums.

In a life insurance comparison, you have to decide whether you want variable universal life insurance or whether you will ask for a low cost term life insurance quote. There is a vast difference between the two. Term life insurance is only good for a specific period of time. If you do not die within that term, then the life insurance policy expires and you will need to renew the policy or purchase another. Variable universal life insurance lasts for your whole life and has options included to help you make money on your life insurance.

With all the life insurance companies online, it is not difficult to do an online life insurance comparison. If you are looking for term life insurance, then you can request a free quote for low cost term life insurance. It is advisable to have at least three quotes so that you can do a comparison of the settlement and the premiums offered by each one.

A life insurance comparison, whether it is for term life insurance or variable universal life insurance, also means that you need to do a comparison of the monthly premiums you have to pay. Since most people look at the amount of money that they need to budget for each month, they want this premium to be as low cost as possible. With variable life insurance, the amount of the premium changes according to market conditions, so it may be a little harder to budget for, but it works out to be more low cost than term life insurance.

Whatever you need in life insurance, you have to make sure you are comparing the same thing when you do a life insurance comparison. For example, a comparison of quotes for low cost term life insurance with those for variable universal life insurance would be like comparing apples and oranges, since they are not the same at all. You have to make sure your comparison is for the same type of life insurance and for the same length of the term. Otherwise, you are only wasting your time.

A proper life insurance comparison is essential.

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Insurance. What would we do without it? Though it seems impossible, there was a time when insurance on anything didn’t even exist. Unfortunately, the early beginnings of insurance are unclear. Over the centuries there have been key writings uncovered that give us some ideas of it’s beginning s. But as to an actual moment in time when the first item was insured, no one really knows.

There are theories that insurance goes back to the early days of the Babylonian traders at around the 2nd millennium BCE. They created a system which was recorded in the famous Code of Hammurabi around 1750 BC. This system was practiced by early Mediterranean sailing merchants. If a merchant received a loan to fund his shipment he would pay the lender an additional sum in exchange for the lender’s guarantee to cancel the loan should the shipment be stolen.

As a business itself, the first recognizable form of insurance started in Great Britain in 1666. This was in reaction to the “Great Fire Of London.” Because of this incident fire became a growing concern in England. Another major concern in England during the time was marine insurance because of England’s position in the world of sea trade. Some of the early insurance companies of the time were The Sun Fire Office, Royal Exchange Assurance and Hand In Hand.

As was stated above, there were some early writings that point to the first insurance companies and types of insurance. Below are a number of these writings.

From 1680 the following memo was found. “Mr. Newbold, London’s Improvement and the Builders’ Security Asserted, by the apparent advantages that will attend their easie charge, in raising such a joint-stock as may assure a Re-Building of those Houses which shall hereafter be Destroyed by the Casualties of Fire.” This memo appears to point to the beginnings of fire insurance. There were many other memos found during that same time period from 1680 to 1700 all related to fire insurance companies.

In 1697 writings were found to show the beginnings of an insurance company created to insure the welfare of widows and orphans. This appears to be the early beginnings of life insurance. During the period of 1697 to 1762 many other memos were found relating to the establishment of life insurance. Some of the early known companies are The Society For Equitable Insurances, The Perpetual Assurance Office and The Hampshire Society. It wasn’t however until about 1850 that the first evidence of life expectancy actuary tables were found.

The first evidence of insurance for businessmen was memos found going back to the year 1601. Many different kinds of businesses were mentioned in these memos such as small businessmen, mining companies and ship building companies. Evidence also shows that the British took out insurance on their enemies’ ships for the purpose of collecting on them after they were destroyed by the British Navy.

In the next article we’ll go over the various types of insurance that one can purchase today.

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Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Insurance
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