What's the difference between indemnify and insure?

Indemnify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
  • (v. t.) To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The evaluation, in relation to the different indemnifying, is differentiated.
  • (2) Prosecutor Andrew Edis said it was still not clear if Coulson's costs would be indemnified against costs.
  • (3) The company chosen to do the hauling should be able to demonstrate that they have appropriate insurance to indemnify your office in the event of a problem while they have the waste in their possession.
  • (4) Meanwhile analysts think that Google, which writes the Android mobile software used by Samsung and dozens of others, may have to indemnify handset makers against such lawsuits.
  • (5) This emotional reward indemnifies the future of private practice, because it can exist only in the presence of a close patient-physician relationship, which is the cornerstone of the private practice of ophthalmology.
  • (6) The lawyers said that baseball also promised to provide security for Bosch, cover his legal bills and indemnify him from civil liability over the case.
  • (7) Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the News of the World, is seeking £135,000 of costs incurred before News UK indemnified him in January last year.
  • (8) Instead, officials with knowledge of the rendition operations stressed that they were "ministerially authorised government policy", suggesting that any intelligence officers involved were indemnified against prosecution or civil proceedings in the UK when an authorisation was signed by a government minister under section seven of the Intelligence Services Act – a clause described by some MPs as "a licence to kill".
  • (9) She dropped the claim after News UK – the News Corp subsidiary that under a previous guise as News International published the now-defunct News of the World – which was indemnifying her costs, said it would not be seeking to be reimbursed following her acquittal on all charges.
  • (10) One idea is that rights holders might look to indemnify ISPs against being sued by websites that take action over being blocked in order to give confidence that they will not face large payouts.
  • (11) The league said that Shelly Sterling and the Sterling family trust also "agreed not to sue the NBA and to indemnify the NBA against lawsuits from others, including Donald Sterling”.
  • (12) Although they will often be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the charity, the indemnity will be worthless if the charity is impecunious.
  • (13) But liabilities keep mounting in the company's core casualty business, which indemnifies individuals and companies against damage to themselves and their properties.
  • (14) It also favours an Ofcom-style regulator for supermarkets to address day-to-day abuses of power towards consumers and suppliers, and for government to indemnify councils against legal costs of supermarket planning disputes.
  • (15) Although the nurse has admitted being in breach of her duty, she claims the company should have indemnified her.
  • (16) The act could also indemnify companies acting for security purposes from civil and criminal liability, including violating a user's privacy, provided these were not intentional, the group warned.
  • (17) The publisher’s decision also means other cleared defendants in the trial who were indemnified by News UK have dropped their cost claims.
  • (18) The government will indemnify the private contractors, which means the taxpayer will be left to foot the bill for any leak, a similar arrangement to how things stand now.
  • (19) After having reviewed all the 22 patients in Belgium who are indemnified for isocyanate occupational asthma, the authors cannot find any significant factor that would permit screening and previous eviction (atopy, smoking habits).
  • (20) An insurance policy, at small cost, might be offered to indemnify couples against costs of abortion, tubal division, or maternity care the operation had failed or not.

Insure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.
  • (v. i.) To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
  • (2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (3) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
  • (4) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (5) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
  • (6) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
  • (7) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
  • (8) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
  • (9) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
  • (10) The four most common types of insurance that protect your income are income protection insurance, critical illness cover, life insurance, and payment protection insurance.
  • (11) Whereas 87% of U.S. physicians supported private fee-for-service health care, 85% of Canadian physicians supported government-funded national health insurance.
  • (12) When I eventually get hold of a human at Uber, I am told the only insurance cover is up to $1m to cover “bodily injury or property damage to third parties where the claim arises out of UberEats and UberRush operations”.
  • (13) The use of accounting software expands the use of in-office computers to areas beyond professional billing and insurance form generation.
  • (14) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
  • (15) Requesting physicians explicitly identified "no money" or "no insurance" as the primary reason for transfer in 89 per cent of 164 cases in which these data were recorded.
  • (16) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
  • (17) As part of the plan, the treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will guarantee against the "possibility of unusually large losses" on up to $306bn of risky loans and securities backed by commercial and residential mortgages.
  • (18) In March-May 1988, we collected data on enrollment of 1,445 Army families with grade school children in the Active Duty Dependents Dental Insurance Plan at two Army posts.
  • (19) The studies are conducted on members of a prepaid medical insurance plan, and reside in the Oakland area of California, USA.
  • (20) Insurance claims for medical services submitted on behalf of a group of workers in the construction industry were collected over a 20-month period.