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Definition of Self-insurance
1. Noun. Insuring yourself by setting aside money to cover possible losses rather than by purchasing an insurance policy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-insurance
Literary usage of Self-insurance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insurance: Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Harry James Loman (1921)
"self-insurance.—self-insurance is the endeavor of one who is subject to a risk
to lay aside periodically sums which in time will provide a fund for ..."
2. Insurance, Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Henry James Loman (1922)
"self-insurance.—self-insurance is the endeavor of one who is subject to a risk
to lay aside periodically sums which in time will provide a fund for ..."
3. Marine Insurance by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1920)
"In other words, there is self-insurance instead of a transfer of the risk to an
outside independent underwriter. In one sense the owner may be considered as ..."
4. Marine Insurance by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1920)
"self-insurance.— Our list of insurers would not be complete without ... In other
words, there is self-insurance instead of a transfer of the risk to an ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"The two new technical terms "self-insurance" and "insurance value," which I have
... And the law has stepped in and made it emphatically a self- insurance, ..."
6. Principles of Ocean Transportation by Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1918)
"self-insurance plans, 242. Government marine insurance, 243. Development of marine
insurance in the United States, 243. Risks insured in the United States ..."