The practice of sharing insurance responsibility between multiple insurers; jointly underwriting a risk.
From co- (together) plus insuring, from insure. This is a modern financial term emerging from the insurance industry's need to spread large risks.
Coinsuring is how insurance companies avoid going broke: if a massive building burns down, multiple insurance companies split the bill rather than one company paying everything.
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