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Insung S. Choi
Insung S. Choi (최인성) is a South Korean chemist and KAIST professor working in biomimetic chemistry, known for founding single-cell nanoencapsulation of living cells in artificial shells.
Insurance
Insurance is a contract in which an insurer pays a benefit if a defined event occurs, in exchange for a premium, by pooling policyholders' risks.
Insurance Benefits
Insurance benefits, also called health benefits, are the payments or services an insurance policy or prepayment program must provide when specified conditions are met, defining which medical services are covered and with what cost sharing.
Insurance broker
An insurance broker, also known as insurance broking, is an intermediary who sells or negotiates insurance on behalf of the buyer, searching the market for suitable coverage.
Insurance Carriers
Insurance carriers (insurers) are companies that pay covered losses in exchange for premiums. Mutual carriers are policyholder-owned; stock carriers shareholder-owned; both are state-regulated under NAIC risk-based capital rules.
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is a Crown corporation that provides universal compulsory auto insurance, driver licensing, and vehicle registration services in British Columbia.
Insurance Coverage
Insurance coverage is the scope of losses or services an insurance policy protects, from premiums and deductibles to U.S. health coverage types, ACA marketplaces, and underinsurance.
Insurance fraud
Insurance fraud is deliberate deception by insurers, agents, adjusters, or consumers to obtain illegitimate gains, spanning hard and soft fraud, staged accidents, and application lies; it costs U.S. consumers an estimated $308.6 billion a year.
Insurance in India
Insurance in India, also known as Indian insurance, is a ₹11.93 trillion (₹11.93 lakh crore) premium market regulated by the IRDAI, dominated by state-owned LIC, with penetration of only 3.7% of GDP in 2024-25.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent American nonprofit, founded in 1959 and funded by auto insurers, known for its crash tests and Top Safety Pick awards.
Insurance Laws of 1912
The Insurance Laws of 1912 (Закон о страховании рабочих) were four Russian statutes, approved 23 June 1912, creating compulsory accident and sickness insurance for industrial workers.
Insurance policy
Insurance policy: the written contract between insurer and insured setting premiums, deductibles, coverage, exclusions, and limits; Hammurabi-era origins; adhesion-contract law and NAIC consumer terms.
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) is the statutory regulator of India's insurance industry, established by the 1999 IRDA Act and headquartered in Hyderabad.
InsuranceDekho
InsuranceDekho is an Indian insurtech insurance distributor based in Gurugram, founded within the CarDekho Group and led by CEO Ankit Agrawal, selling policies through point-of-sale agents in smaller cities.
InsuranceZebra, Inc.
InsuranceZebra, Inc., doing business as The Zebra, is an American insurance-comparison marketplace founded in 2012 in Pittsburgh and headquartered in Austin, Texas, offering real-time car and home insurance quotes.
Insurgency
Insurgency: an organized armed movement seeking political change of a governing authority through violence, subversion, and guerrilla warfare; distinct from terrorism, countered by counterinsurgency doctrine; 65 active conflicts worldwide in 2025.
Insurgency in Balochistan
The Insurgency in Balochistan, also called the Balochistan conflict, is an armed separatist conflict between Baloch nationalist groups, chiefly the Baloch Liberation Army, and the Pakistani state.
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
Jihadist insurgency in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, begun October 2017 by Ansar al-Sunna (al-Shabaab), affiliated with Islamic State as IS-M; displaced over one million, halted TotalEnergies' $20 billion LNG project, and drew Rwandan and SADC interventions.
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, or Kashmiri insurgency, is an armed separatist conflict begun in 1989 that has killed tens of thousands and repeatedly brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: armed campaign by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistani Taliban, TTP) against the Pakistani state since 2007, intensified after the 2021 Afghan Taliban takeover, centered on former FATA and the Afghan border.
Insurgency in Northeast India
Insurgency in Northeast India is the ongoing armed separatist and ethnic conflict across India's northeastern states since 1947, from Nagaland to Assam, Manipur, and Mizoram.
Insurgency in Paraguay
Insurgency in Paraguay: the 1947 civil war, guerrilla movements (M-14, FULNA, Columna Mariscal López) against the Stroessner dictatorship, and the ongoing Marxist-Leninist EPP insurgency in northern departments since 2008.
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present): Salafi-jihadist campaign by AQIM, JNIM, and Islamic State offshoots against North African and Sahel states, rooted in Algeria's civil war, spreading from Algeria to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
Insurgency in the North Caucasus
Insurgency in the North Caucasus: low-level Islamist and formerly nationalist rebellion against Russia after the two Chechen wars, centered on the Caucasus Emirate (2007–2015), weakened by Syria departures, with sporadic IS-linked violence persisting, including the June 2024 Dagestan church and synagogue attacks.
Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
The Insurgency in the Preševo Valley was an armed conflict in southern Serbia from 2000 to 2001, in which the ethnic Albanian UÇPMB fought Serbian and Yugoslav security forces.
Insurgency: Sandstorm
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a tactical FPS by New World Interactive, published by Focus Entertainment, released on PC December 12, 2018 and later on PS4, Xbox One, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, built on Unreal Engine 4 as the sequel to Insurgency (2014).
Insurgent (2015 film)
The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) is Robert Schwentke's dystopian sci-fi sequel to Divergent, adapted from Veronica Roth's novel, starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet; it grossed $297 million worldwide but scored 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Insurgent (novel)
Insurgent is Veronica Roth's 2012 young adult dystopian novel, the second book of the Divergent trilogy set in post-apocalyptic Chicago, following Tris through faction civil war, survivor's guilt, and the fence revelation.
Insurrection Act of 1807
Insurrection Act of 1807: U.S. federal law signed by Jefferson letting the president deploy the military domestically; amalgamation of 1792–1871 statutes, primary exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, invoked about 30 times, last in 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Insurrection of 10 August 1792
Insurrection of 10 August 1792, also called the Storming of the Tuileries or Second French Revolution: Paris sections and fédérés overthrew Louis XVI, massacred his Swiss Guards, and led to the Republic.