insurance poor

English

Adjective

insurance poor (comparative more insurance poor, superlative most insurance poor)

1. Short of money as a result of paying high insurance premiums.
   • 1931, Insurance Newsweek, volume 32, page 16:

     For how is it possible for a prospect to be “insurance poor” any more than it is possible for a man to be “stocks and bonds poor," or “owning too many apartment houses poor,” or “having too big a bank account poor”?

   • 2007, Les Nunn, Financial Essentials for Successful Business:

     Most beginning business people soon find themselves “insurance poor” if they do not have the right agent. Talk to other small business people about who they use as their insurance agent.