insure

insure (someone or something) with (something)

To buy insurance for someone or something from a particular company (named after "with"). I insured my new car with Smith Insurance after my parents suggested it.
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insure against (something)

To protect someone or something against something. One policy can't insure against every issue you'll encounter with your business, you know.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

insure against something

to guard or protect against something. You must insure against theft and fire. I will insure against all risks.
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insure someone or something (against something) (for something)

to provide insurance for someone or something against certain perils up to a certain amount of money. I insured my wife against accidental death for $100,000. We insured the car for its current value against all losses.

insure someone or something with something

to provide insurance for someone or something from a specific company. I insured Amy with a fine old insurance company. We insured the car with Acme Insurance in Adamsville.
See also: insure
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • insure (someone or something) with (something)
  • insure with
  • insured
  • cover (someone or something) against (something)
  • cover against
  • content
  • content (oneself) with (someone or something)
  • content oneself with
  • take to the cleaners, to
  • indemnify against
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"Our policy is not to insure betting shops at all," said Georgia Chrysostomou, property underwriter at Cosmos Insurance, pointing out that they will reject insuring an outlet even if it is close to a betting shop.
However, for businesses that do have special exposures or that have risk exposures that the insurance company does not wish to insure, there are other liability policies that can fill the risk exposure gaps on the CGL form that exist.
This portion of the agreement is the most difficult to insure. Ask an insurance agent to review the property coverage to understand exactly what is covered.
d) of others sold by the Insured, that the Insured has agreed prior to the loss to insure during course of delivery.
"Ensure, insure, and assure are interchangeable in many contexts where they indicate the making certain or inevitable of an outcome, but insure sometimes stresses the taking of necessary measures beforehand, and assure distinctively implies the removal of doubt and suspense from a person's mind" (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, as quoted in Webster's Dictionary of English Usage).
Not only was the brush sampling technique (InSure, by Enterix) significantly more sensitive than the guaiac test (Hemoccult II Sensa, by Beckman Coulter Inc.) for detecting colorectal neoplasia, it also was equally specific, was more acceptable to patients, and has the potential to reduce barriers to population screening, said Dr.
What a business pays for a building, and what the business should insure it for are two different issues.
In briefest outline, the plan is (1) to educate people about the risk and cost of long term care while they are still young enough, healthy enough, and prosperous enough to plan, save and insure, (2) to notify people simultaneously of the "LTC Contract" by which every American must acknowledge individual responsibility for his or her future long-term care expenses, (3) to extend to people who fail to insure against this risk a line of credit fully collateralized by their estates which enables them to purchase LTC services in the private marketplace, and (4) to recover the cost of care funded by such lines of credit from the estates of people who failed to plan early, prepare diligently and insure fully.
Now, there's a way to insure their health and safety as well.
That's because both furniture and art are less expensive to insure since they aren't as susceptible to loss.
Any person or organization while acting as real estate manager for the named insured, any person or organization having proper temporary custody of the named insured's property if the named insured dies, and legal representatives if the named insure dies, are also included as insureds.
This is meant to protect the insurer from getting an insured that it neither contracted for nor would want to insure in any instance.
Later, Company A enters into a tax insurance contract to insure the deal in exchange for a premium of $10 million, and arranges to have SwissRe underwrite the tax liability for the full amount of $220 million.
The lease, however, also required the tenant to insure the glass from first dollar.
Andrew's devastation exposed another common error: failure to insure against floods, which, like earthquakes, require supplemental insurance.