Glossary
Glossary of Business Terms
Glossary of Business Terms
AB
ability to pay
account
account current
account evaluation
accounting year
accounts payable
accounts receivable
ACH (Automated Clearing House)
acknowledgment
active policy
activity pattern
addendum
additional case reserves (ACR)
additional insured
additional interest
additional perils
additional premium
adjustable premium
adjuster
agency bill
agency bill plan
agent
all risk coverage
AR
as if
asset
audit
bill date invoicing
billed
billing instruction
Billing system
billing plan
binder
binding
bodily injury (BI)
book value
broker
Build-out
business rule
businessowners policy (BOP)
cancellation
carrier
carry forward (exception)
casualty
catastrophe
cause of loss
charge
charge date
charge effective date
charge hold
charge invoicing
charge pattern
charge pattern categories
charge reversal
claim
claim suffix
claimant
class code
collateral
collection agency
collision
commercial lines
commercial package policy (CPP)
commission
commission plan
comprehensive
contact
contractual period
coverable
coverage
coverage period
cycle
data mart
dec page / declarations page
deductible
deferred premium payment plan
delinquency
delinquency plan
delinquent
direct bill
direct writers
directors and officers liability insurance (D&O)
disbursement
disposition
distribution method
double entry accounting
due date
due date invoicing
earned premium
effective date
effective time
EFT (electronic funds transfer)
endorsement
equity dating
exception
excess
exclusion
exposure
exposure earned premium
exposure units
final audit
first notice of loss (FNOL)
first-party loss
flat cancellation
forms
full pay discount
general ledger
general liability (GL)
hazard
held charge
hold
homeowners insurance
indemnity
inland marine insurance
insurance
InsuranceSuite
insured
insurer
interim audits
invoice
invoice date
invoice item
invoice stream
ISCS
ISO
issuance
journal
kidnap / ransom insurance
lead time
leakage
ledger
liability insurance
library
limit
Line
line item
line of business (LOB)
loss
loss adjusting expenses (LAE)
loss costs
loss history
loss reserves
marine insurance
medical payments
MedPay
mid-term change
modifier
motor vehicle record (MVR)
NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioners)
name clearance
named insured
named peril
NCAD (notice of cancellation at anniversary date)
NCCI (National Council on Compensation Insurance)
non-disclosure
notice of loss
NPW (net premiums written)
out-of-sequence job or transaction
paid through date
payment
payment item
payment plan
peril
period
personal injury
Personal Injury Protection (PIP)
personal lines
personal property / contents
physical damage (PD)
plan
policy
Policy (entity)
Policy administration system (PAS)
policy equity
policy term
policyholder
PolicyPeriod (entity)
preemption
premium
premium reporting
primary named insured
producer
producer code
producer payment
producer statement
promise to pay
promoted (or bound)
property
property and casualty insurance (P&C)
quote
rate
rated policy
rating
rating agencies
reciprocity
recovery
reinstatement
reinsurance
renewal
renewal processing
renters insurance
rescission
reserves
retention
revisioning
rewrite job
rider
risk
risk analysis
risk assessment
risk evaluation
risk management
risk reservation
risk type
ROL (rate on line)
rule
rule set
salvage
schedule
self insurance
service
service handler
slice mode
snapshot
split billing
statement bill
stop loss
subrogation
suspense item
suspense payment
system of record (SOR)
T-account
term number
third-party liability
tile (panel)
transaction
trouble tickets
umbrella policy
unapplied funds
underwriter
underwriting
underwriting company
underwriting group
unearned premium
waiver of subrogation
WCIO (Workers’ Compensation Insurance Organizations)
workers’ compensation or workers’ comp
write-off
written premium
Glossary of Technical Terms
Glossary of Technical Terms
.ear file
.jar file
.war file
abort
action handler
adapter
Ant
API (application programming interface)
APM (application performance monitoring)
assignment engine
authentication service plugin
authentication source creator plugin
bastion host
batch process
batch server
bean
Bitbucket
branch (a policy revision)
branch ID
branch (software development)
CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment)
coderef
command
command shell
Continuous Delivery (Continuous Deployment)
Continuous Integration
Datadog
data extraction
data model
data model extensions
database authentication plugin
delegate
destination
DMZ (demilitarized zone)
document merge plugin
document source plugin
document template
document template descriptor
domain method
EAR file
entity
entity libraries
event
event date
fixed ID
Gosu
Gosu plugin
Gosu templates
GUnit
helper class
Jakarta
JAR file
Java API libraries
Java plugin
JMX (Java Management Extensions)
job
late binding
MDA (Model Driven Architecture)
message / message payload
message reply plugin
message request plugin
message transport plugin
message without primary
messaging plugin
model number
model time
node
non-safe-ordered messages
object
payload
plugin
primary entity and primary object
public ID
root object
rule engine
safe order
safe-ordered messages
SOAP protocol
Solr
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
staging table
Studio
tag / tagging
TeamCity
template
template descriptor file
Tomcat
typelist
UMOL
Velocity
WAR file
web service
window mode
WSDL (Web Services Description Language)
WSS (WS-Security, Web Services Security)
XML (Extensible Markup Language)
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