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Underwriting capacity

Term · Insurance and risk management · MLC-T-INS-003411

The maximum amount of risk an insurer or the insurance market as a whole is willing and able to assume for a given type of coverage. It is influenced by factors such as capital, surplus, reinsurance arrangements, and regulatory limits. Underwriting capacity dictates the volume and size of policies an insurer can write.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-INS-003411
FieldInsurance and risk management
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-INS-003411",
  "term": "Underwriting capacity",
  "field": "Insurance and risk management",
  "definition": "The maximum amount of risk an insurer or the insurance market as a whole is willing and able to assume for a given type of coverage. It is influenced by factors such as capital, surplus, reinsurance arrangements, and regulatory limits. Underwriting capacity dictates the volume and size of policies an insurer can write.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/insurance/underwriting-capacity/"
}

Record 3,484 of 3,682 in Insurance and risk management terminology (MLC-0106). Request the full dataset.