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What is insurance? Differentiate between Life and Non Life insurance?

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What is insurance? What is the difference between Life insurance and Non Life insurance?


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Insurance is the medium of bearing risk or loss in different fields as well as human life.

Differences between life insurance and non life insurance are:

Life insurance Non life insurance
It is the insurance of human life. It is the insurance for the security of agricultural products, Vehicles; industry, trade, housing or cattle rearing.
It can be of certain period of time like 5 years, 10 years, 20 years or even lifelong. It is of one year should be renewed every year.
In case an insured died before the completion of insurance period, his/her nominee gets the total insurance amount. If the insured does not die throughout the period s/he gets along double amount of the insurance amount. Nepal government pays 75% premium installments and insurer has to pay 25% premium installments out of the total insurance amount. In case of damage of the insured crops, 90% compensation is paid to the farmer for the loss, but if there is no damage of the insured crops, the paid amount wont be returned.
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