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insurance-based

 
 
adjective

Definition

INSURANCE used to describe a system based on insurance: Some believe that Britain should move to an insurance-based health service. Do you have insurance-based savings plans?
(Definition of insurance-based adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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