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Glossary

Articles on Glossary from the Openkoda team.

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Insurtech Platform

An insurtech platform is a digital environment for creating, managing, and distributing insurance products, unifying underwriting, policy admin, and claims.

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Insurance Form Builder

An insurance form builder lets teams create, manage, and deploy digital insurance forms - quotes, claims, applications - with logic, validation, and integrations.

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Claims Management System (CMS)

A claims management system helps insurers organize, track, and speed up handling claims from first notice of loss through investigation to final settlement.

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Policy Administration System (PAS)

A policy administration system manages the full policy lifecycle - issuance, endorsements, renewals, billing, and documents - as the core of insurance operations.

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RBAC vs ABAC

RBAC grants access by predefined roles, while ABAC evaluates user, resource, and context attributes for dynamic, fine-grained access control.

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Insurance Audit Trail

An insurance audit trail is a chronological record of who did what and when across systems, protecting data integrity, transparency, and compliance.

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Insurtech

Insurtech is the application of modern digital technologies - AI, cloud, analytics, and APIs - to modernize and transform the insurance sector.

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Insurance Billing System

An insurance billing system manages end-to-end billing for policies, from invoicing and payment processing to receivables, refunds, and adjustments.

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Insurance Endorsement

An insurance endorsement is a formal amendment that updates an existing policy's terms, scope, or conditions without issuing a new contract.

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Bordereau Insurance

What a bordereau is in insurance and reinsurance, its origins, the main types (risk, premium, claims), and the operational challenges of bordereau processing.

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Property and Casualty Insurance

What property and casualty (P&C) insurance covers, its key types from homeowners to auto and general liability, and its main benefits for people and businesses.

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Parametric Insurance

How parametric insurance pays out on predefined event triggers instead of assessed losses, how it compares to traditional cover, and its key benefits.

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Usage-Based Insurance

How usage-based insurance (UBI) prices premiums on real driving behavior via telematics, the factors that shape your score, and market growth statistics.

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Marine Cargo Insurance

What marine cargo insurance covers, who needs it, the main policy types (ICC A/B/C, single voyage, open cover), and key contract requirements.

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Crop Insurance

How crop insurance protects farm production and revenue, its history and types (MPCI, crop-hail, revenue), what it costs, and why it's a specialty line.

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Insurance Rating Engine

What an insurance rating engine is, the must-have features to look for, the benefits of centralizing pricing logic, and how to integrate it with your stack.

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ACORD Form

What ACORD forms are, why certificates of insurance matter, where to find them, and the most common ACORD form types used across the insurance industry.

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Managing General Agent (MGA)

What a Managing General Agent is, how delegated underwriting authority works, and how MGAs differ from insurance brokers within the distribution chain.

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Insurance Agent Portal

An agent portal is a secure web application giving licensed insurance agents access to the tools and data they need to run their business.

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First Notice of Loss (FNOL)

First Notice of Loss (FNOL) is the initial report to an insurer that an event happened, marking the official start of the claims process.

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Insurance Broker Portal

An insurance broker portal is a secure, multi-carrier workspace for placing and servicing policies end-to-end.

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Insurance Rules Engine

How a business rules engine automates underwriting, rating, eligibility, and claims decisions in insurance with speed, consistency, and full auditability.

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Certificate of Insurance (COI)

A certificate of insurance is a short, standardized document proving that an individual or business holds active insurance coverage.

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