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insuror

A term adopted and used by some agents to enhance their public image as persons who represent insurers in effecting contracts of insurance between insurers and insureds. As such, insuror may be considered a misnomer when confused with insurer, which is recognized in statutory law as the party to an insurance contract which undertakes to indemnify for losses incurred by, or to provide services to, the other party to the insurance contract (the insured). Thus, an insurer is a risk-bearing party in an insurance contract, while an insuror is not. Two state associations of insurance agents, Tennessee and Colorado, use insuror in their title.