Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The substitution of one person or entity for another, especially when the substituted party becomes responsible for a debt or legal claim.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, the act or operation of law in vesting a person who has satisfied, or is ready to satisfy, a claim which ought to be borne by another with the right to hold and enforce the claim against such other for his own indemnification.
  • noun In a general sense, succession of any kind, whether of a person to a person, or of a person to a thing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Law) The act of subrogating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law The substitution of a different person in place of a creditor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (law) the act of substituting of one creditor for another

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Examples

  • Look, these cases are called subrogation cases, the employer plays the medical, then after a settlement, they will commonly get it back.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2008 2008

  • In some situations, though - if the tree was in poor health, say, or improperly maintained - your insurer may try to collect from your neighbor's insurance company, through a process called subrogation.

    NYT > Home Page By ANN CARRNS 2011

  • The action State Farm is considering is known as a subrogation action, and is an option for an insurer if it can show that a defective product was in part or fully to blame for a given auto claim.

    NewsInferno 2010

  • The action State Farm is considering is known as a subrogation action, and is an option for an insurer if it can show that a defective product was in part or fully to blame for a given auto claim.

    NewsInferno Laurie 2010

  • Next, Insurer sued Chester Co. in what is known as a subrogation claim, to recover the Insurer's expenses.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2009

  • Next, Insurer sued Chester Co. in what is known as a subrogation claim, to recover the Insurer's expenses.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2009

  • Other companies are expected to follow and demands for repayment of claims — called "subrogation" in the insurance business — could end up costing Toyota from $20 million to $30 million, says Mark Bunim, an attorney with Closed Case, a mediation firm.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 12, 2010 2010

  • The process of an insurance company receiving money from an automaker is called "subrogation" and

    Autoblog Chris Shunk 2010

  • While the scrutiny on cost will affect every facet of workers 'comp and liability programs, strategies such as subrogation recoveries and captive risk sharing arrangements will gain prominence as tools to control expenses.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Meanwhile he said that if a person or company was found to have caused the disaster, insurance companies would file a "subrogation" claim.

    Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010

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