INSURANCE
NOUNS
1910 — CARRIER a company or organization which provides insurance
1950 — COFFIN MONEY burial insurance → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1693 — POLICY OFFICER a person who issues policies of insurance → obs.
1712 — WAGERER a holder of an insurance policy
1772 — ACTUARY a person who compiles and analyses statistics of mortality, accidents, etc., and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums
1863 — ASSURANT a person who insures his or her life, or takes out a policy of insurance
1887 — BLANKET BOND an insurance policy that applies collectively to a group of people or assets
1924 — TWISTER an insurance salesman or agent who unscrupulously induces a holder to switch his policy from one company to another → orig. US
1930 — DEAD MAN a weekly insurance collector → Irish sl.
VERBS
1906 — TWIST in insurance: to induce someone to change a policy from one company to another
1931 — BOARD WITH AUNT POLLY to draw insurance for sickness or accident → Amer. logging sl.