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Insurance Claim

A document or request filed by a policyholder stating that an insured event has occurred and that the insurance company should provide coverage. For example, if a person has health insurance and breaks his leg, he must file an insurance claim in order for the insurance company to pay for some or all of the medical expenses. Depending on the policy, a third party may or may not be able to file an insurance claim on behalf of a policyholder.

Claim.

You file an insurance claim when you send your insurance company paperwork asking the company to pay for any of the expenses your policy covers.

claim

A demand, as of right.

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Kuchma in a statement urging him to firm leadership and an "examination of conscience." "When the president as guarantor of the Constitution does not fulfill his responsibilities, the guarantors become the people who go out into the central squares to lay claim to the truth," read the statement, which also charged the government with "criminal and anti-constitutional acts."

Fighting for democracy and freedom

Fears that a new Government department would lay claim to an historic Welsh courthouse have been lifted.

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"As well as boasting two championship golf courses, we can also lay claim to the newest and most comprehensive clubhouse and practice facilities in the UK,' said managing director Stephen Leeke.

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Throughout Birmingham's history we can lay claim to so many first accolades.

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l IT is increasingly obvious that the written law authorises those in power to subjugate people and lay claim to land and property they have taken by cunning and or force from others.

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In a country as vast as Australia, travelling by car can perhaps lay claim to some of its lost romance, but the huge road network still needs the usual quotidian maintenance and supervision.

On the road: this economical and environmentally responsive new headquarters in Melbourne for highway emergency services is in the best traditions of bold roadside architecture

Significantly, that game is about conquering Thebes: What little is shared between the men is in the Boy Scout lingo of the alpha male; calling to each other from separate peaks, they lay claim to "my mountain" and "your mountain."

Desert hearts: like his earlier My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant's Gerry invites us to watch hunky young stars do mystifying things

The ruling Thursday allows the creditors to lay claim to some of the revenue generated from 27 Shilo Inns before and after Oct.

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The scientists who could lay claim to these answers would surely become household names and position themselves for substantial financial rewards.

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To wear the scarlet fringe meant belonging to the select group of cuzquenos who could lay claim to descent from an Inka royal lineage.

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As long as we humans continue to lay claim to so much of the planet, while living under such economic and political strife ourselves, any wildlife released back to nature will quickly end up as "bushmeat," or a victim otherwise of someone's economic desperation.