Claim

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Business› Finance› Insurance

Auto Insurance

Your request for the insurance company to pay you an amount under the terms of your policy.

A request for reimbursement for damages on an insured loss. Your claims to your company are first-party claims. Claims made by one person against another person's company are known as third-party claims.

Notice to an insurance company that a loss has occurred which may be covered under the terms and conditions of the policy.

Your request for the insurance company to pay you an amount under the terms of your policy for a covered peril.

Business› Finance› Insurance

Homeowners Insurance

A request for reimbursement for damages on an insured loss. Your claims to your company are first-party claims. Claims made by one person against another person's company are known as third-party claims.

A policyholder's request for reimbursement from an insurance company under a home insurance policy for a loss to property.

Your request for the insurance company to pay you an amount under the terms of your policy.

Business› Finance

Personal Finance

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.

Healthcare

Health Insurance

A notification to your insurance company that payment is due under the policy provisions.

A request for payment that you or your health care provider submits to your health insurer when you get items or services you think are covered.

A request for payment that you or your health care provider submits to your health insurer after you receive items or services you think are covered.

Law

Bankruptcy

A creditor's assertion of a right to payment from the debtor or the debtor's property.

Creditors right to payment.

Law› Intellectual Property

Patent

the meat and potatoes of the patent application. A claim is a single sentence that describes one aspect of an invention; in a patent there can be hundreds of claims or only one. Since patent protection only covers what is exactly and explicitly laid out in the claims, they are, as you can imagine, incredibly important. Patent attorneys can spend months crafting these delicate sentences.

The definition of a monopoly right that an applicant is trying to obtain. The claims define the actual monopoly when the patent is granted. MPEP 608.01(i), MPEP 608.01(k), MPEP 608.01(m), MPEP 1309.01.

A numbered paragraph or paragraphs at the close of a patent application specifically stating what the inventor alleges as the invention. The claims define the legal scope of a patent.

Technology› Operating System› Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows Server

A statement that a server makes (for example, name, identity, key, group, privilege, or capability) about a client.

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