What's the difference between indemnity and obligation?

Indemnity


Definition:

  • (n.) Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty.
  • (n.) Indemnification, compensation, or remuneration for loss, damage, or injury sustained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data for the study consisted of weekly indemnity insurance claim forms.
  • (2) The comic book adaptation is perfect territory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Double Indemnity or Chinatown , but … you know, really wondered why they couldn't have had a few more explosions and a little more cleavage.
  • (3) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
  • (4) The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), which represents firms that market their products through brokers and advisers, said 65% of its members believed competition would fall unless a permanent indemnity scheme was brought in to replace Help-to-Buy 2.
  • (5) It is no longer possible for clinicians in the UK to act independently in the management of such cases without risking censure or loss of indemnity from the employing health authority.
  • (6) The indemnity is paid once, as a capital sum, on an abstract and egalitarian basis, irrespective of the patient's age, sex, occupation, or income.
  • (7) A total of $11,800,156 in indemnity and expenses was spent for these 262 claims.
  • (8) The total cost of this system including accident indemnities is covered by the employer.
  • (9) The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), which represents firms that market their products through brokers and advisers, said 65% of its members believed competition would fall unless a permanent indemnity scheme was brought in to replace help-to-buy 2.
  • (10) Raymond Chandler (Double Indemnity, 1943) Raymond Chandler Almost the only recording of Raymond Chandler in the archives is a 1958 conversation with Ian Fleming.
  • (11) These services will include professional indemnity and public liability insurance, a magazine and peer-reviewed journal and, controversially, representation by public services union Unison.
  • (12) The results showed an elevated rate of anti-e antibodies in the asymptomatic donors, and this could be correlated with clinical and biochemical indemnity of the liver function.
  • (13) A statistically significant association between occupational injuries and past non-occupational injuries was seen when all workers compensation (WC) claims were analyzed (OR = 1.41) and when claims involving indemnity for lost time were analyzed (OR = 1.82).
  • (14) The most vulnerable members are most at risk...their average indemnities are €15 [£10.50] a day.
  • (15) While indemnity plans, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and preferred-provider organizations (PPOs) remain as the three basic types of plans, insurers are combining these elements in different ways, creating dual- and triple-option plans that consist of indemnity insurance and an HMO, a PPO and an HMO, or other variations.
  • (16) Confirmation of the indemnity was made at the start of this month, when the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) slipped out a departmental minute relating to the Magnox reactors.
  • (17) People wishing to hire the venue have to take out £2m indemnity insurance before they are allowed in, although the museum admits that even this would be inadequate if the marbles were damaged.
  • (18) We know that people will have questions about their membership, including, for example, the status of their professional indemnity insurance.
  • (19) We conclude that in Connecticut neither health maintenance organizations nor traditional indemnity insurers currently offer comprehensive systems of care to these children.
  • (20) In diseases due to occupational intoxication, we face an individual disposition regarding the degree of clinical symptoms, which has to underly any expert opinion on indemnity.

Obligation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of obligating.
  • (n.) That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty.
  • (n.) Any act by which a person becomes bound to do something to or for anouther, or to forbear something; external duties imposed by law, promise, or contract, by the relations of society, or by courtesy, kindness, etc.
  • (n.) The state of being obligated or bound; the state of being indebted for an act of favor or kindness; as, to place others under obligations to one.
  • (n.) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
  • (3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (5) 45Calcium has been used to compare the kinetics for the transport and bioaccumulation of this regulatory cation in keratinocyte cultures of a kindred with HPS (i.e., one HPS homozygote, one HPS obligate heterozygote, one normal family member, and healthy adult controls).
  • (6) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
  • (7) Physicians have an obligation to ensure that parents make a well-considered decision, and to provide them with counsel and support.
  • (8) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
  • (9) Organisms of the genus Bacteroides represent the major group of obligate anaerobes involved in human infections.
  • (10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (11) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
  • (12) A 20% discount will save the average first-time buyer £43,000 on a £218,000 home (the average cost paid by such buyers), which would leave a revenue shortfall of £8bn from income if current regulatory obligations had been retained on the 200,000 homes.
  • (13) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
  • (14) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
  • (15) These species are all obligately anaerobic, asaccharolytic, and generally nonreactive, and they grow poorly and slowly on media commonly used to isolate anaerobic bacteria.
  • (16) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
  • (17) In the present report we summarize our data on 144 obligate female carriers.
  • (18) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
  • (19) No serious side effects were reported and none of the patients was obliged to terminate treatment because of side effects.
  • (20) This paper argues that although this is true of some types of obligation, including the ones discussed by Professor Kluge, it is by no means true of all.