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INSURANCE-FUNDAMENTALS6 MIN READ

From Exposure To Premium

Explain the basic premium chain from exposure to final price without treating premium as arbitrary.

A business owner's workers compensation premium rises from $82,000 to $97,500. The owner assumes the insurer added profit, but the exposure and class mix changed. Premium chain: exposure basis -> expected losses -> expenses and margin -> underwriting adjustments. The common trap is arguing about the final premium before checking whether the exposure base, class, trend, deductible, or limit changed. Exposure Payroll rose from $4.1 million to $4.7 million, so the amount of insured payroll exposure rose about 15%. The first driver is not insurer judgment; it is the size of what is being insured. Expected Loss The new delivery…

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