Florida Health Insurance Terms:
"Insurance Carrier"

Carrier: Another name for an insurance company.

The underwriting insurance company.

• Other definitions of carrier are:
• someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
• a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
• aircraft carrier: a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
• an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction
• a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
• carrier wave: a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
• mailman: a man who delivers the mail
• a boy who delivers newspapers
• (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
• (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring