Summary
Group insurance provides benefits to a number of persons under a single master contract. Low-cost protection is provided because the employer pays part or all of the premiums. Evidence of insurability is usually not required. Larger groups are subject to experience rating, by which the group’s loss experience determines the premiums charged.
Certain underwriting principles are followed in group insurance to obtain favorable loss experience:
Insurance should be incidental to the group.
There should be a flow of persons through the group.
Ideally, the benefits should be determined by some formula that precludes individual selection of benefit amounts.
A minimum percentage of eligible employees should participate in the plan.
There should ...
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