How Do the Car Life Insurance Companies Make Money and How do They Work

Some of us may think that there's nothing more boring than attending a car life insurance conference or guys of life insurance car agent come to our home to present their boring presentation, well we will be right if we look back to see how the car life insurance industry began.

It isn't as dull as might first appear from swash buckling pirates to a ferocious fire that ravaged the world's greatest city insurance has had a colorful past, but how do those gray suits who sell insurance really make money and how do the inner workings of one of the most complicate fiscal models really works? how do the car life insurance companies make money and how do they works.

what is insurance? well insurance is a financial vehicle that helps spread risk by taking a risk from an individual and spreading that risk around the community,  the individual is able to go about their personal or business level and spreading that risk from financial ruin.

In the simplest terms let's look at two people one is named Bob and the other Jim, Bob says to Jim I'll give you $500 but if I lose my car you'll have to buy me a new one or if my car broke down you will give compesation for all the repair cost if Jim agrees then that's insurance right there.

  

Insurance companies make money because they evaluate the risk and decide whether it is worth the gamble, Jim believes that Bob probably won't lose his phone and he'll therefore be 10 dollars richer if Jim finds 100 more people who are willing to give him 10 bucks each to cover their phones, he has $1,000 if one of those 100 people loses their phone and Jim pays $100 ascompensation he still has 900 bucks.

The insurance idea has been floating around since the ancient Chinese and the Babylonians spreading their shipping risks but it wasn't until around the17th century in London that modern insurance really took off Merchant Marine men and traders often hung out in coffee shops in the business district of London and while drinking copious amounts of coffee the idea of modern day insurance was born Lloyd's of London the heart of world wide insurance was developed inside one of these coffee houses and here's how it worked.

First you have the client say the client has a ship that he is nervous about losing to pirates off shore or perhaps the vessel will be destroyed in bad weather the client approaches an insurance broker, the broker looks at the ship or pays someone to look at the ship and they decide how much the total value of that ship is worth.  the broker then assesses the risk, he asks the client where he is traveling to and what cargo he will be carrying, with all this information he draws up an insurance policy which he shows to the third person in the chain the underwriter for a cheaper premium the underwriter may exclude a few risks and for a few more bugs he may include some extra risks. 

Now there are normally lots of underwriters approached but one will be the lead and the lead underwriter like Jim will normally take the largest proportion of the risk and sign his name first on the policy document, he is known as the underwriter as he writes his name under the risk on the insurance policy, the lead underwriter makes the major decisions when it comes to accepting the policy and will be the main man to agree to any claims on the policy once the terms of the policy are agreed to it is made legal and the client is happy and the ship set sails but not before paying the insurance premium to the broker who will take about 10% and pass the rest on to the underwriter.

What should happen if pirates board the ship steal the cargo and burn it at sea well the client if he is still alive if not a representative of a client will speak to the insurance broker and the broker will visit with the lead underwriter and tell him the bad news, the rest of the underwriters there may well be as many as 20 on a big policy are told the news and then the broker must negotiate the best claim settlement for the client or his or her representatives. The underwriters pay the money to the broker who passes it on to the client without deducting any cut the broker makes his money once the premium is paid and will help negotiate the best claims for his clients through gentlemanly honor and the prospect of future business. now it may not be all bad news for the underwriter if he is wise and not greedy he may have re-insured the policy reinsurance puts the underwriter in the position of the client the underwriter sells the policy on to another underwriter or firm of underwriters while retaining a share of the premium confused yet.

Think back to Jim and his phone insurance if Jim resold his $500 car life insurance policy for four hundred dollars rather than the five hundred dollars he received then he gets to keep a hundred dollar s for each 100 clients meaning he has $10000 completely risk-free similarly much of the modern-day insurance that flows through Lloyd's of London is re-insured out of the building to smaller insurance companies all across the world, so what starts as a simple agreement between the client and the broker or Jim and Bob is spread across a business community each stand to profit from the premium or take a cut of any losses.

This is how insurance works by the spreading of risk over communities so that is how maritime insurance was born. it was developed through the need of ship owners to carry on in business should they lose everything lost at sea.

  

What about property insurance? well around the same time 1666 the Great Fire of London devastated the city where modern day insurance was born and famous architect Sir Christopher Wren in his great London redevelopment project in 1667 made sure to include an insurance office in his new plan now property insurance is commonplace with most home owners having a policy in place also medical life travel car and dental insurance are all commonly held policies even pet insurance is a major insurance business nowadays over time the business model has evolved modern day insurance companies are fiercely competitive which is good for you the client as policies are priced at their lowest possible point companies.

Now look to write as many policies as possible to create a financial pool they take the premium from thousands of policies and invest that money in other financial products so the insurance underwriter may pay out more claims than they make in policy premiums but they have invested all those premiums in a high interest investment scheme so they make their money outside of the original insurance product insurance in this example as away of creating cash flow to be used in more lucrative investments. so what do you think? do you have insurance to protect against the unexpected to insurance companies ? charge too much? is it all just a scam let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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