reciprocal insurance

reciprocal insurance
A system whereby individuals, partnerships, or corporations, engaged in a similar line of business, undertake to indemnify each other against a certain kind or kinds of losses by means of a mutual exchange of insurance contracts, usually through the medium of a common attorney in fact appointed for that purpose by each of the underwriters, under agreements whereby, as among themselves, each member separately becomes both an insured and an insurer with several liability only. 29 Am J Rev ed Ins § 102.

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  • reciprocal exchange — noun : an unincorporated association of companies or individuals set up to permit its members to take out reciprocal insurance * * * an unincorporated association formed so that its members can participate in reciprocal insurance …   Useful english dictionary

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