Insurance Terms
Acronyms - A
- A__ - A (or judgment) rates
- AAI - Accredited Advisor in Insurance
- AAI - Alliance of American Insurers
- AAM - Associate in Automation Management
- ACC - anti-concurrent cause provision
- ACLS - Automobile Claim Law Specialist
- ACR - adjusted community rating
- ACV - Actual Cash Value
- ADB - Accidental Death Benefit
- AD&D - Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- ADL - activities of daily living
- ADR - Alternative Dispute Resolution
- AGRIP - Association of Governmental Risk Pools
- A&H - accident and health insurance
- AI - additional insured
- AIMA - as interest may appear
- AL - Automobile Liability insurance
- ALAE - allocated loss adjustment expense
- ALE - additional living expense coverage
- ALE - assumption of liability endorsement
- ALOP - Advance Loss of Profit insurance
- ANL - above normal loss
- AOP - all other perils
- AP - additional premium
- AR - accounts receivable coverage
- AR - All Risks coverage
- AR - assigned risk
- ARO - asset retirement obligation
- ART - alternative risk transfer market
- ART - annual (or yearly) renewable term
- A&S - accident and sickness insurance (an older name for health insurance)
- ASR - age/sex rates
- ATIMA - as their interests may appear
- AU - automobile insurance
- AV - aviation insurance
- AVR - Asset Valuation Reserve
- AWW - average weekly wage
A
Acronyms - B
- BAP - Business Automobile Policy
- BBB - banker's blanket bond
- B&C - building and contents
- BCAR - Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio
- BCBS - Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans
- BCEGS - Building Codes Effectiveness Grading Schedule
- BERP - Basic Extended Reporting Period
- BFCGL - broad form comprehensive general liability endorsement
- BFPD - broad form property damage endorsement
- BGIC - Bullet Guaranteed Investment Contract
- BI - Bodily Injury
- BI - Bodily Injury liability
- BI - Business Income coverage form
- BI - Business Interruption
- BI - Business Interruption coverage
- BIC (or BI) - Business Income coverage
- BIM - building information modeling
- BM (B&M) - boiler and machinery insurance form
- BOP - Businessowners Policy
- BOW - breach of warranty clause
- BPB - Blanket Position Bond
- BPF - basic premium factor
- BPL - Bankers Professional Liability
- BPLI - Bankers Professional Liability insurance
- BPPCF - Business and Personal Property Coverage Form
- BR - builders risk policy
- BTR - below-target-risk
B
Acronyms - C
- CAI - Commercial Auto Insurance
- CAL - comprehensive automobile liability
- CandF - cost and freight
- CAP - capitation
- CAR - contractors all risks insurance
- CBRN - chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear weapon
- CCC - care, custody, and/or control
- CCIP - contractor controlled insurance program
- CDW - collision damage waiver
- CEN - confiscation, expropriation, nationalization
- CEND - confiscation, expropriation, nationalization, and deprivation
- C&F - cost and freight
- CFC - controlled foreign corporation
- CFU - customary freight unit
- CGL - Commercial General Liability Insurance form
- CGL - Commercial General Liability coverage part
- CGL - Commercial General Liability Insurance policy
- CHAMPUS - Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
- CICR - Captive Insurance Company Reports
- CIF - cost, insurance, and freight
- CIM - commercial inland marine
- CIP - consolidated insurance program
- CIP - controlled insurance program (consolidated insurance program)
- CIPO - controlled insurance program for operations
- CISR - Certified Insurance Service Representative
- CLI - Commercial Liability Insurance
- CLM - Commercial Lines Manual
- CLU - Chartered Life Underwriter
- CMP - commercial multiple peril
- CNP - cotton named perils insurance
- C/O - completed operations
- COA - Certificate of Annuity
- COA - Certificate of Authority
- COB - Coordination of Benefits
- COGSA - Carriage of Goods by Sea Act of 1936
- COI - Certificate of Insurance
- COLI - Company-Owned Life Insurance
- COP - commercial output policy
- COPE - construction, occupancy, protection, exposure
- COR - cost of risk
- CP - commercial property (forms)
- CPCU - Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter
- CPI - Commercial Property Insurance
- CPL - Comprehensive Personal Liability
- CPP - Commercial Package Policy
- CPP - Commercial Property Program
- CPrL - Contractors Professional Liability
- CR - Commercial Crime (forms)
- CRT - contractual risk transfer
- CSL - Combined Single Limit
- CSV - cash surrender value
- CSVLI - cash surrender value of life insurance
- CV - cash value (life insurance) cash surrender value (CSV)