Indemnity

Indemnity insurance policies protect the insured person, or the insured person's own property.

Types of indemnity insurance include health insurance, disability insurance, fire insurance, and life insurance.

"Double Indemnity" is the title of a classic 1944 film noir, in which a philandering insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) and a housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) plot to murder her husband, but to make it look like an accident, in order to collect on an insurance policy that will pay double the value in case of accidental death.

Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance

And all this, it will be said, the Duke of Orleans might have prevented by an effective treaty, securing an act of indemnity.

Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility

Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation; see also Thesaurus:compensation

It would have been wise to modify rather than revoke the proclamation. But the Allies went further. Now, for the first time, were heard the words of indemnity for the past, and security for the future.