Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium, and can be thought of a guaranteed small loss to prevent a large, possibly devastating large An insurer is a company selling the The insurance rate is a factor used to determine the amount, called the premium, to be charged for a certain amount of insurance Risk management, the practice of appraising and controlling risk, has evolved as a discrete field of study and +&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=