To explain:
Moral hazard by the homeowner of hurricane-prone areas.
Introduction: Moral hazard is a situation to choose risky outcome by one party and it is known that cost of outcome incurred by the other party. In insurance, moral hazard occurs when there is asymmetric information among the parties. Moral hazard also occurs when insured party does not act as per required norms and violate the agreed terms.
Explanation of Solution
Moral hazard means that a risk incurred by an insurance company with respect to the possible lack of honesty among policyholders.
Example in this case could be an insured homeowner in hurricane-prone area who may not put high-grade windows while building a home as per the required norms which can create the huge loss for him and insurance company.
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