Pure Risks and Speculative Risks

Let us have a close look at Pure and Speculative risks:

The latter are in the nature of betting or gambling where the risk is, to some extent, under the control of the person concerned, while a picture is not so. It is more in the nature of an Act of God. Insurance deals with only pure risks and not speculative risks.

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