For decades, insurance has been defined by episodic moments, such as a policy issued, a claim filed and a loss assessed.

With insurance, that same graph has much fewer big spikes, and the spikes themselves are smaller. The insurance company can't minimize your risk, but it can minimize the impact of said risk, which is ...

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