De Beers might be an exception: if an NGO campaign made diamonds unfashionable, thus reducing the value of De Beers' stockpile (currently valued at about $4 billion), the damage would be quantifiable, and therefore, in theory at least, insurable.Where risks cannot be insured against, they can often be subcontracted.
"We work hard but we cannot be insured against individual cases".
Knight defined true uncertainty as the doubt about the future which cannot be reduced to known probabilities and cannot be insured against.
The overseas radiologists who read American images are generally United States citizens themselves, Mr. Levy said, because doctors who have not passed American boards cannot be insured against malpractice.
Stoudemire is a possible financial risk because of his injury history -- including knee surgery in 2005 and eye surgery in 2009 -- and his contract cannot be insured.
A detached retina in the 2008-9 season limited him to 53 games, and The Arizona Republic reported that Stoudemire's contract cannot be insured because of the injuries, which caused Phoenix to hesitate in offering him a long-term commitment.
However, a worker cannot be insured for sickness absences for more than 180 days in the same calendar year.
a Long-term care (e.g. nursing homes), and all those treatments and services that cannot be insured individually because such expenses would be too high to bear, notably mental illness requiring prolonged nursing and care, and congenital physical or mental handicap are separately insured under a mandatory one-tier system.
Responses to the BRFSS did not include questions about the length of time one was insured through any particular insurer, therefore it cannot be precisely determined how much the increased enrollment affected prevalence estimates.
Because Massachusetts now requires its residents to be insured, it cannot fall back on the strategy used by other states in hard times — to simply remove people from the public insurance rolls by restricting eligibility.
