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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
insurer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Municipal Mutual, Britain's ninth biggest insurer with 1,500,000 policyholders, is in difficulty and looking for a new partner.
▪ Even big insurers like Hartford and Cigna admit that these practices give the industry a bad name.
large
▪ Direct Line Insurance is Britain's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years.
mutual
▪ The House of Lords ruled that the mutual insurer was wrong to renege on guarantees offered to about 90,000 pension policyholders.
other
▪ A much smaller increase in premium where you loose your no claims bonus following an accident than with most other insurers.
▪ As with any other policy the insurers will always require an excess.
▪ So Centre Re designed policies to achieve that more cheaply than the standard annual policies offered by other insurers.
▪ The mighty Prudential and other life insurers bought chains of estate agencies.
private
▪ Data are being gathered from published sources and from interviews with officials, private insurers and commercial bankers.
▪ Other fixes are more complex and include changing how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals, monitors spending and subsidizes private health insurers.
▪ The government has bailed out some bust private insurers.
▪ But the advisory panel told Congress that it found no evidence that more money retains private insurers.
▪ Berlanga said the state would look for waste and duplication in public health care and work with private insurers.
▪ So we have been moving to make matters worse by encouraging private insurers to take over Medicare.
■ NOUN
health
▪ Other fixes are more complex and include changing how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals, monitors spending and subsidizes private health insurers.
▪ No company wants its employees treated poorly or unfairly by the health insurer administering the self-insured plan.
▪ William F.. Weld, say it will eliminate the so-called gag clauses some health insurers put in their contracts with physicians.
▪ For health insurers in California, the rules distinctly changed with a state law that took effect in July.
▪ But getting health insurers to pay for the promised sessions is, in many cases, a losing struggle.
life
▪ In order to give you even more help, we are foregoing the annual renewal commission with certain life insurers.
▪ The performance of life insurers will vary widely, although all are expected to post declines.
▪ The snag is that life insurers, too, are relationship investors.
▪ General and life insurers and securities traders were reported as more optimistic.
▪ The mighty Prudential and other life insurers bought chains of estate agencies.
■ VERB
pay
▪ Once the claims were paid, the insurers decided amongst themselves who bore the loss and in what proportion.
▪ The remainder will be paid by liability insurers of the company's former directors.
▪ The damages will be paid by the insurers of the other car driver.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The full cost of storm damage will be paid by the insurer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After Art, I called a few more insurers.
▪ And last year, insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds.
▪ Banks, insurers and other financial companies got hit as well.
▪ He found that 81 percent of the insurers will write new policies only to consumers whose homes meet strict underwriting guidelines.
▪ Once the claims were paid, the insurers decided amongst themselves who bore the loss and in what proportion.
▪ The shares of ordinary insurers would be cheap.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insurer

Insurer \In*sur"er\, n. One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
insurer

1650s, agent noun from insure.

Wiktionary
insurer

n. One who insures.

WordNet
insurer

n. a financial institution that sells insurance [syn: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, underwriter]

Usage examples of "insurer".

Other insurers, or perhaps Medicaid, might take them on, but that was their problem.

This is Casewell Insurers of California, subInsurers of the subsidiary carriers of a partial policy listed by Alan Stanwyk, who is your son?

She had simply put in a call to the insurers and they had had it removed.

Most insurers have restricted or even stopped insuring new homes in coastal regions.

It seems logical, then, that insurers would view a high-risk house with even greater concern.

If other insurers tried the same program, the quality of coastal construction might improve dramatically.

The company and its insurers had plenty of cash to cover these lawsuits, and so it was up to those in the room to hustle on out there and find the rest of the cases.

One fear is that insurers will classify the mutations as a preexisting condition and so refuse to cover treatments related to the condition.

But the short reason for disbelieving that there was any warrant in the old law for making the carrier an insurer against damage is, that there seem to be no early cases in which bailees were held to such a responsibility, and that it was not within the principle on which they were made answerable for a loss by theft.

It is not true to-day that all bailees for reward exercising a public calling are insurers.

This morning—three days since the fire—salvagers in the pay of those insurers were busy with pry-bars and hoists, pulling congealed rivulets and puddles of lead from the canal.

If he did, a case presently worth $20 million, with comps- compensatory damages for lifetime care- might bring one-fifth of that, most of which would go to repay his medical insurer.

Pete was impressed by her grasp of the differing objectives and viewpoints of various medical interests, including insurers, hospitals, Health Maintenance Organizations, drug companies, specialists, general practitioners, and the American Medical Association.

When they got sick or injured, their treatment costs, which were not reimbursed by any insurer, had to be absorbed by the hospital or other health care provider, driving up the costs of medical care for everyone else.

The insurer was gambling that the ship would get back safely and the insuree was gambling that the ship would sink.