QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026 |
Practice Test | A+
• The term insurance transaction includes: -✓✓1) Solicitation; 2) Negotiation; 3) Sales;
4) Advertising
• Adverse Selection (insurance def) -✓✓Insuring the risks that are more prone to losses
than the average risk
• Agent/Producer -✓✓a legal representative of an insurance company; the classification
of producer usually includes agents and brokers; agents are the agents of the insurer
• Applicant or proposed insured -✓✓a person applying for insurance
• Beneficiary -✓✓A person who receives the benefits of an insurance policy
• Death Benefit -✓✓the amount paid upon the death of the insured in a life insurance
policy
• insurance policy -✓✓a contract between a policyowner (and/or insured) and an
insurance company which agrees to pay the insured or the beneficiary for loss caused
by specific events
• Insured -✓✓person covered by the insurance policy; may or may not be the policy
owner
• Insurer (principal) -✓✓the company who issues an insurance policy
• lapse -✓✓policy termination due to nonpayment of premium
• Policyowner -✓✓the person entitled to exercise the rights and privileges in the policy
• Agent Authority -✓✓express, implied, apparent
• Express Authority -✓✓authority declared in clear, direct, and definite terms
• Implied Authority -✓✓Authority that is not expressed or written into the contract, but
which the agent is assumed to have in order to transact the business of insurance for
the principal.
, • Apparent Authority -✓✓The appearance or the assumption of authority based on the
actions, words, or deeds of the principal or because of circumstances the principal
created.
• Elements of a Legal Contract -✓✓Agreement (offer and acceptance), consideration,
competent parties, and legal purpose
• Aleatory Contract -✓✓The exchange of value is unequal.
• adhesion contract -✓✓A take-it-or-leave-it offer made by a party who holds most of
the power in a bargaining session
• Unilateral Contract -✓✓promise in exchange for an act - a one-sided promise
• Conditional Contract -✓✓a contract that becomes enforceable only on the happening
or termination of a specified condition
• Application Statement - Warranty -✓✓A absolutely true statement
• Application Statement - Representations -✓✓True to the best of the applicants
knowledge
• Fraud -✓✓intentional misrepresentation of a material fact, made with the intention to
deceive
• Concealment -✓✓intentional failure of the applicant for insurance to reveal a material
fact to the insurer
• Material Fact -✓✓A fact that would lead to a different underwriting decision had the
insurer known about it
• Utmost Good Faith -✓✓An obligation to act in complete honesty and to disclose all
relevant facts.
• Personal Uses of Life Insurance -✓✓Survivor protection, estate creation and
conservation, cash accumulation and liquidity
• Key Person Insurance -✓✓Life insurance that protects a firm against losses due to the
death of a key employee is known as
• Buy-Sell Agreement -✓✓A legal contract that determines what will be done with a
business in the event that an owner dies or becomes disabled.
• Insurable Interest -✓✓something of value that, if lost, would cause you financial harm