From supply chain disruption to pandemic outbreaks, there are dozens of risks that include the use of insurance that insurance companies can help mitigate. On the flip side, though, insurers want to safeguard against various risks, including operational, credit, market, liquidity, underwriting, and more.
For that, they apply four basic risk management methods – avoidance, transfer, retention, and reduction, all equally important to keep an insurance business afloat, maximizing its profits and minimizing its losses.
One of the four basic risk management techniques, risk reduction – also known as loss mitigation – allows organizations and individuals to effectively manage the risk of loss they inevitably encounter as they operate in their industry. It is done by implementing specific risk reduction techniques, such as minimizing the frequency of risk cases and the damage caused by them.
No matter which particular measures a specific risk reduction case encompasses, it will inevitably be focused on one, a few, or all of the following:
Altogether these measures would allow an insurer to maximize its profits and decrease the risk of unexpected (too frequent) payouts.
There’s no denying that an insurance company wouldn’t want to provide coverage for an insurance case that will most likely happen shortly or, even worse, will keep happening regularly. That is why most insurance companies practice risk reduction, obliging their clients to follow the required risk mitigation measures.
It’s only natural that insurance companies are most interested in the clients purchasing insurance that have implemented risk reduction practices. The more advanced the risk reduction measures on the client’s side, the less expensive this client is to an insurance company. At the same time, risk reduction usually works together with risk retention in insurance and other risk management methods to achieve a better effect.
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