# Insurance | ![img \|150](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Coast_review_%281910%29_%2814760820941%29.jpg/320px-Coast_review_%281910%29_%2814760820941%29.jpg) | **Insurance** is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Insurance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance) | ## [[Health Insurance]] [[Affordable Care Act]] Out-of-pocket maximum ## [[Dental Insurance]] ## [[Vehicle Insurance]] - [[Bicycle Insurance]] ## [[Renter's insurance]] ## [[Life Insurance]] ## Business Insurance - [[LLC]] - [[Liability insurance]] - Umbrella Insurance - Cyber Insurance - Professional Insurance ## Property Insurance - Home insurance - Landlord insurance ## [[Social safety net]] ## [[Job Benefits]] ## Long-Term Disability Insurance ## Short-Term Disability Insurance ## Exclusions, caveats, gotchas, etc. ## Other - [[Codex/Academia/Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences/Economics/Workers' compensation]] - Fire - Flood - Earthquake - Tornado - Hurricane - house/home, breakins, stuff, etc. - Business ## Concepts, Terms, & Related - [[Risk]] - [[Risk Management]] - [[Underwriting]] - Claims - Insurer's business model - [[Insurance law]] - [[Moral hazard]] - [[Complexity]] and [[Social contract|Contractarian]] [[Corporation|Corporate]] shenanigans and [[Bullshit]] - [[Redlining]] and [[Discrimination]] - Premium - Deductible - Write-off - Totaled, total loss - [[Credit rating]]s affect insurance premiums? - [[Act of God]]