Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds a policy or contract of insurance.
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Examples
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Manyof the healthiest insurers are policy-holder owned, not stock holder, where profits are pushed back into emergency funds.
Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out' 2009
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When the original policy-holder dies, the entire payout goes to the fund.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Short Selling American Lives: Deutsche Bank Life Insurance Fund in Hot Water 2009
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The primary allegiance of U.S. private health insurers is to shareholders and their profits, not to policy-holder health care access.
Michele Swenson: Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head 2009
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For example, some policies may say that the policy-holder can choose any doctor, but the fine print gives far more limited choices.
Sarah Lovinger: It's The Health Insurance Lobby, Stupid! 2009
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And denials of claims, as sentient American knows, are endemic in our system, as is the related practice of rescission, whereby insurance companies try to strip policy-holders of their coverage once the policy-holder becomes sick and actually needs coverage.
Jonathan Weiler: Critics of "Obamacare" Actually Describe the Status Quo 2009
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When the original policy-holder dies, the entire payout goes to the fund.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Short Selling American Lives: Deutsche Bank Life Insurance Fund in Hot Water 2009
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Clearly the question that any policy-holder must ask is: why has this state of affairs been allowed to develop in a publicly listed company which is also supposedly regulated both by the insurance industry regulator and the Financial Services Board?
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Clearly the question that any policy-holder must ask is: why has this state of affairs been allowed to develop in a publicly listed company which is also supposedly regulated both by the insurance industry regulator and the Financial Services Board?
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In all cash companies, and in some of the note companies, after the specified number of premiums have been paid, the policy-holder draws an annual dividend in cash.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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In mutual (cash) companies, when the premium has been paid in full for about sixteen years, judging from past experience, the policy-holder may expect that his annual dividend on policy and additions will exceed the annual premium, thus obviating the necessity of further payments to the company, while his policy annually increases in amount for the remainder of life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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