What is the definition of Early Warning System?
The Early Warning System is a system that provides insurance industry regulators will a tool to determine the financial stability of an insurance company. This helps the state insurance commission to step in when a certain insurance company may need more regulatory attention or help in order to maintain its solvency or its ability to pay the claims of its policy holders.
The Early Warning System is made up of rating methods and financial ratios. A range is used for these ratios and if an insurance company falls off the range, the Insurance Regulatory Information System or IRIS may step in.
There are financial ratios that insurance companies are regularly required to provide the state insurance commission. These include earned premium, loss ratios and other pertinent statistics.
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- Earned Premium
- Earthquake Insurance
- Economic Loss
- Electronic Commerce / E-Commerce
- Elimination Period
- Employee Dishonesty Coverage
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
- Employer’s Liability
- Employment Practices Liability Coverage
- Endorsement
- Dread Disease Coverage
- Double Indemnity Benefit
- Domestic Insurance Company
- Dividend Accumulations Option
- Dividend
- Disability
- Disability Income Insurance
- Directors and Officers Liability Insurance
- Direct Writers
- Direct Sales/ Direct Response