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One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

One who gives reinsurance.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

e accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, an…

rance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance or…

See Insurer.

One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [Obs.] Dryden. hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair.

The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.

A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance.

ites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.