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Chapter 8
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Insurance
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04/12/2012

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WORK FLOW
Definition
Series of steps or actions that must be completed in sequence, to accomplish a particular task
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DOCUMENT MAINTENANCE
Definition
Includes Filing, maintaining, storing, and retrieving applications, photographs inspection reports, policyholder correspondence, and all other underwriting documents.
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TRANSACTIONAL FILING
Definition
A filing system in which all paper documents for all clients are filed by the date on which they were processed.
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EMPOWERMENT
Definition
The distribution of authority, resources, information and accountability to employees in an organization in order to make decisions and solve problems.
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LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS
Definition
Organization where people, individually and collectively, continually expand their capacity to produce results and expand their patterns of thinking.
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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Definition
A concept in which an organization gathers, organizes, shares, and analyzes the collective knowledge, expertise and ideas of all its members.
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CAPTIOL
Definition
Total Assets minus Total Liabilities. It is a measurement frequently used to assess the financial strength of the insurance industry.
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MODELING
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A system of calculating known outcomes based on current data, then applying those calculation s to new data to predict future outcomes.
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SECURITIZATION OF RISK
Definition
Sale of short term bonds to investors to generate the cash required to pay potential catastrophe claims during a specific period of time.
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