Map the losses that matter
Identify financial risks worth transferring before selecting an insurance product.
What Is Insurance?
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During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Map the losses that matter.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a household risk map ranking exposures by potential consequence, current control, and unresolved gap.What this lesson is really solving.
Identify financial risks worth transferring before selecting an insurance product. This is lesson 1 because later decisions depend on a household risk map ranking exposures by potential consequence, current control, and unresolved gap. Insurance is a transfer decision: you keep manageable losses and pay to transfer defined catastrophic ones. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
Insurance is a transfer decision: you keep manageable losses and pay to transfer defined catastrophic ones.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
List people, income, housing, vehicles, property, health access, liability exposures, and debts that could create a serious loss.
- 2
Estimate consequence and likelihood without pretending the numbers are exact.
- 3
Mark risks already controlled through savings, employer benefits, contracts, or existing policies.
- 4
Prioritize gaps that could threaten essential living costs, legal obligations, or dependents.
See the standard in context.
Sam ranks liability after a serious auto crash and loss of household income above replacing a $400 phone, which can be covered from savings. The learner saves a household risk map ranking exposures by potential consequence, current control, and unresolved gap and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes a household risk map ranking exposures by potential consequence, current control, and unresolved gap.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Buying whatever product was advertised without first identifying the specific loss it is meant to transfer.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: Every coverage under consideration corresponds to a named risk and a reason that self-funding may be unsafe.
Your deliverable
A household risk map ranking exposures by potential consequence, current control, and unresolved gap.
Watch for this
Buying whatever product was advertised without first identifying the specific loss it is meant to transfer.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
Every coverage under consideration corresponds to a named risk and a reason that self-funding may be unsafe.
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