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Pure risk

A risk with only two possible outcomes, loss or no loss, such as a house that may burn. Only pure risk is insurable.

Lessons that use this term

  • Insurance, risk, and peril California
  • Risk, exposure, hazard, peril, and loss, and the methods of handling risk New York
  • Elements of insurable risk, adverse selection, the law of large numbers, and reinsurance New York

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