double insurance
noun[U]
INSURANCEukus(alsodual insurance)anarrangementin which someone has two differentinsuranceagreementsfor the samerisk:
Asecondaryinsurerin notrequiredtopaythefullpolicyamountto aninsuredwho hasdoubleinsurancecoverage.
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Nothing more than patrimonial indemnity may be recovered, as is illustrated by the rules on over-insurance anddoubleinsurance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Doubleinsurancedoes not amount to over-insurance, unless the total of all the insurances is more than the total value of the interest.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is not fair to give him a sort ofdoubleinsurancewhen other people get a single one.
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Then the result is this, that when one of these men is sick he is paiddoubleinsurance.
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Clause 27, another most important one, especially to those who have already been insured, prevents what is calleddoubleinsurance.
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In a sense, this is adoubleinsurance.
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Why should damage to property be included whose only effect would be to lead todoubleinsuranceand additional cost?
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Only three of the 13 benefits are contributory, so the charge ofdoubleinsurancecontributions, which was levelled at me by my noble friend, fails.
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I base my arguments strongly on the need to protect people from conventional attack, but as adoubleinsuranceit is better to escalate that protection to include nuclear attack.
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We have to avoiddoubleinsurance.
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