Introduction to Insurance (3 hrs)

Description

This course provides an introductory overview of the principle of risk transfer, the features of insurable risk, the different types of insurance available in the UK insurance market and the make-up of the Lloyd’s and London Insurance Market. The course includes a guided tour of the Lloyd’s building.

What you will learn

Who should attend?
This course has been designed for delegates with limited knowledge of insurance and the UK Insurance Market.

Understanding Risk
• Key components of risk
• Categories of risk
• Risk transfer and the role of reinsurance

Why insure?
• Functions of insurance
• Benefits of insurance

Legal principles
• Insurable interest
• Utmost good faith
• Indemnity

The insurance market
• Market overview
• The role of the regulator
• The role of Lloyd’s & the London insurance market


General Insurance
• Personal Lines
• Commercial Lines
• Wholesale

Life assurance/Long-Term Savings Products/Pensions
• Types of life policy
• Term policies
• Endowment policies
• Whole of life policies
• Other long-term savings products
• Pension products

Medical policies
• Critical illness
• IPI policies
• Other medical policies

Questions and answers

Lloyd’s tour

 

Further information

London Market Training
Provider:
London Market Training
Duration:
3.5 Hours
Locations:
London

Contact Information

London Market Training

Southcourt Farmhouse
37 Southcott Village
Leighton Buzzard
LU7 2PS