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Insurance Houston is an advertising directory to help consumers find protection against financial aspects of risk, such as those to property, life, health and legal liability. It is one
method of the overall concept known as risk management.

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In insurance, the insured makes payments called "premiums" to an insurer, and in return is able to claim a payment from the insurer if the insured suffers a defined type of loss. This
relationship is usually drawn up in a formal legal contract, also known as a policy. The contract will set out in detail the exact circumstances under which a benefit payment will be
made and the amount of the premiums.

In one classic example of insurance, a ship-owner insures a ship and receives payment if the ship is damaged or destroyed. This example is one of the earliest uses and
developments of concepts like insurance. Interestingly, ships are now more often insured through risk pooling and spreading organizations such as Lloyd's of London because the
loss of a large ship going down is too great for one insurer to accept.

In the case of annuities, such as a pension, similar concepts apply, but in some sense in the reverse. When applied to annuities, the terms risk and loss are somewhat different from
traditional insurance as they concern the chances of living beyond life expectancy and the need for income during the period between annuitization and death.

Insurance attempts to quantify risk by pooling together a large number of risks. This makes use of the law of large numbers. As applied to insurance, this means that the greater the
number of similar risks, the greater accuracy with which insurers can estimate the overall risk.
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