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C16 Business Insurance Exam 2026 | Actual Exam
with Complete Questions and Answers | California
Insurance License | Business Insurance
Coverages||Newest Exam!!!
Four basic functions of Insurance - Answer-Financing -
offers a unique method of financing to insurance
companies, frees up capital that would be otherwise tied
up, meet solvency regulations, expansion of operations
Stabilization - keep insurer's growth and development,
used to keep operational results reasonable without
fluctuations, can help maintain confidence from
stakeholders, attract new capital
Capacity - require ability to insure businesses beyond their
resources, take on risks higher than they would normally
write, may not want to be limited to small lines, cater to
needs of big producers
Reinsurance used to protect against catastrophic loss -
look to protect resources such as their capital and
surplus,their loss ratio and their investment position
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Five areas of challenge facing insurance industry -
Answer-Globalization
Rapid advances in technology
Public image issues
Volatile investment markets
Increasingly severe weather
growing competition
mounting shareholder and regulatory scrutiny
downloading and offloading by government
Long-tail catastrophic auto injury exposures affect
reinsurers and insurers - Answer-- severe injuries
-long-tail trends for prior accident years
-inadequate reserving
-
Law of Large numbers: - Answer-mathematical premise
which states that the degree of certainty in probabilities
increases as the number of events increases - insurance
companies rely on loss forecasts built on using data from
large groups of similar risks
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5. Adverse Selection - Answer-Process by which potential
policyholders use private knowledge of their own high
level of risk when deciding whether or not to buy insurance
(high risk individuals will buy lots of insurance and pay
high rates where low risk clients might not buy any
insurance because the price is too high)
(Also occurs when a broker places its poorer risks with
one insurer and its better risks with another - low risk client
will seek best rates where poorer risk will stay with existing
company because they won't be able to find rates
elsewhere)
7. Two concerns of Ontario Auto excess reinsurers that
relate to long-tail liabilities: - Answer--Increasingly larger
claims (increase in number of claims exceeding
thresholders)
-Inherent challenges in long-tail pricing because it's
difficult to accurately predict the outcome of claims that
have not yet occurred and will remain open for years
-Late reporting to insurers
-Caps on soft tissue injury but not on catastrophic injures
-Adequate claims reserving at the primary company level
-re-pricing in certain excess layers
-impact of medical and health care inflation on claims
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9. Residual market - Answer-mechanisms have been
established by automobile insurance industry to provide a
last resort insurance facility for consumers. This ensures
that insurance coverage is available even to those who
are considered a high risk. Facility Association.
5 Ways Insurance companies spread risk - Answer--Share
risk with other insurance companies (for very large risk,
several insurers subscribe to percentage of risk)
-Reinsure the risk
-deductible
-spread risk over diverse geographical region (soften risk
of localized disasters)
-form risk pools (syndicates of insurance and reinsurance
companies, organized to underwrite particular risk)
Two principles of insurance - Answer-1. Premiums of the
many are used to pay the losses of the few
(risk transferred to insurer, deductible, company shares
and spreads risk, geographic spread of risk, forming risk
pools)
Premium shall be commensurate with the risk
C16 Business Insurance Exam 2026 | Actual Exam
with Complete Questions and Answers | California
Insurance License | Business Insurance
Coverages||Newest Exam!!!
Four basic functions of Insurance - Answer-Financing -
offers a unique method of financing to insurance
companies, frees up capital that would be otherwise tied
up, meet solvency regulations, expansion of operations
Stabilization - keep insurer's growth and development,
used to keep operational results reasonable without
fluctuations, can help maintain confidence from
stakeholders, attract new capital
Capacity - require ability to insure businesses beyond their
resources, take on risks higher than they would normally
write, may not want to be limited to small lines, cater to
needs of big producers
Reinsurance used to protect against catastrophic loss -
look to protect resources such as their capital and
surplus,their loss ratio and their investment position
,2|Page
Five areas of challenge facing insurance industry -
Answer-Globalization
Rapid advances in technology
Public image issues
Volatile investment markets
Increasingly severe weather
growing competition
mounting shareholder and regulatory scrutiny
downloading and offloading by government
Long-tail catastrophic auto injury exposures affect
reinsurers and insurers - Answer-- severe injuries
-long-tail trends for prior accident years
-inadequate reserving
-
Law of Large numbers: - Answer-mathematical premise
which states that the degree of certainty in probabilities
increases as the number of events increases - insurance
companies rely on loss forecasts built on using data from
large groups of similar risks
,3|Page
5. Adverse Selection - Answer-Process by which potential
policyholders use private knowledge of their own high
level of risk when deciding whether or not to buy insurance
(high risk individuals will buy lots of insurance and pay
high rates where low risk clients might not buy any
insurance because the price is too high)
(Also occurs when a broker places its poorer risks with
one insurer and its better risks with another - low risk client
will seek best rates where poorer risk will stay with existing
company because they won't be able to find rates
elsewhere)
7. Two concerns of Ontario Auto excess reinsurers that
relate to long-tail liabilities: - Answer--Increasingly larger
claims (increase in number of claims exceeding
thresholders)
-Inherent challenges in long-tail pricing because it's
difficult to accurately predict the outcome of claims that
have not yet occurred and will remain open for years
-Late reporting to insurers
-Caps on soft tissue injury but not on catastrophic injures
-Adequate claims reserving at the primary company level
-re-pricing in certain excess layers
-impact of medical and health care inflation on claims
, 4|Page
9. Residual market - Answer-mechanisms have been
established by automobile insurance industry to provide a
last resort insurance facility for consumers. This ensures
that insurance coverage is available even to those who
are considered a high risk. Facility Association.
5 Ways Insurance companies spread risk - Answer--Share
risk with other insurance companies (for very large risk,
several insurers subscribe to percentage of risk)
-Reinsure the risk
-deductible
-spread risk over diverse geographical region (soften risk
of localized disasters)
-form risk pools (syndicates of insurance and reinsurance
companies, organized to underwrite particular risk)
Two principles of insurance - Answer-1. Premiums of the
many are used to pay the losses of the few
(risk transferred to insurer, deductible, company shares
and spreads risk, geographic spread of risk, forming risk
pools)
Premium shall be commensurate with the risk
