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Claim

Claim means any request or demand for payment under the terms of the insurance policy to cover an incurred loss.

Webster Dictionary Meaning

1. Claim
- A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
- A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
- The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
- A loud call.
2. Claim
- To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
3. Claim
- To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
- To proclaim.
- To call or name.
- To assert; to maintain.
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