Functions Of Insurance

Akopọ

Ask most people what insurance does and they will say it pays out when something goes wrong. True, but that is only the surface. Underneath sits a quiet machine that turns thousands of small, uncertain premiums into a fund large enough to rebuild a burnt shop, and then puts the waiting money to work building roads, factories and homes. Insurance both protects the individual and grows the whole economy, and the syllabus asks you to see both halves at once.

This lesson separates what insurance is built to do, its primary functions, from the wider benefits it happens to deliver, its secondary functions. You will see how the common pool works, why a single premium can stand in for a huge loss, how insurers become one of the largest investors in the country, and how the trade earns foreign exchange that counts among a nation's invisible earnings. By the end you will be able to place any function in the right family and back it with a Nigerian example.

Awọn Afojusun

  1. State the primary function of insurance and explain how risk pooling achieves it
  2. Describe the secondary functions of insurance, including capital formation and loss prevention
  3. Explain how insurance supports international trade and the invisible earnings of a country
  4. Distinguish the primary from the secondary functions using practical examples

Akọ̀wé Ẹ̀kọ́

A young tailor in Kaduna insures his workshop, pays a premium of a few thousand naira, and thinks of it as money gone. Months later a fire guts the row of shops beside his, and their uninsured owners are ruined, while he reopens within weeks on the insurer's cheque. The premium was not money gone. It bought him a share of a common pool into which many traders pay and out of which the unlucky few are paid. Understanding the functions of insurance means understanding both what that pool does for the tailor and what the same pooled money does for Nigeria as a whole.

Ìdánwò Ẹ̀kọ́

Oriire fun ipari ẹkọ lori Functions Of Insurance. Ni bayi ti o ti ṣawari naa awọn imọran bọtini ati awọn imọran, o to akoko lati fi imọ rẹ si idanwo. Ẹka yii nfunni ni ọpọlọpọ awọn adaṣe awọn ibeere ti a ṣe lati fun oye rẹ lokun ati ṣe iranlọwọ fun ọ lati ṣe iwọn oye ohun elo naa.

Iwọ yoo pade adalu awọn iru ibeere, pẹlu awọn ibeere olumulo pupọ, awọn ibeere idahun kukuru, ati awọn ibeere iwe kikọ. Gbogbo ibeere kọọkan ni a ṣe pẹlu iṣaro lati ṣe ayẹwo awọn ẹya oriṣiriṣi ti imọ rẹ ati awọn ogbon ironu pataki.

Lo ise abala yii gege bi anfaani lati mu oye re lori koko-ọrọ naa lagbara ati lati ṣe idanimọ eyikeyi agbegbe ti o le nilo afikun ikẹkọ. Maṣe jẹ ki awọn italaya eyikeyi ti o ba pade da ọ lójú; dipo, wo wọn gẹgẹ bi awọn anfaani fun idagbasoke ati ilọsiwaju.

  1. Which of the following is a PRIMARY function of insurance? A. Loss prevention B. Capital formation C. Risk transfer D. Provision of credit Answer: C
  2. The pooling of losses in insurance depends chiefly on the: A. Law of diminishing returns B. Law of large numbers C. Principle of subrogation D. Law of demand and supply Answer: B
  3. A mutual pool of 400 traders expects total annual fire losses of 4,800,000 naira, to be shared equally. What pure premium must each trader pay? A. 4,800 naira B. 12,000 naira C. 1,200 naira D. 48,000 naira Answer: B
  4. Which of the following is a SECONDARY function of insurance? A. Risk transfer B. Charging an equitable premium C. Creation of a common pool D. Loss prevention Answer: D
  5. Insurance adds to a country's invisible earnings mainly by: A. Paying claims to local policyholders B. Accepting risks from foreign clients and earning premiums abroad C. Collecting value added tax for the government D. Selling shares on the stock exchange Answer: B