Glossary
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries, and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes.
Read MoreNational Independent Statistical Service (NISS) is a not-for-profit corporation serving as a statistical agent and advisory organization that collects and compiles data to keep member companies in compliance with state regulatory requirements.
Read MoreThe National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is a federal agency that is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.
Read MoreThe National Practitioner Data Bank is a federal registry of adverse actions taken against doctors (e.g., payments made on behalf of doctors by professional liability insurers).
Read MoreThe National Priorities List is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) list of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites identified for possible loyng-term remedial action under Superfund.
Read MoreThe National Response Center is the federal operations center that receives notifications of all releases of oil and hazardous substances into the environment.
Read MoreThe National Response Team includes representatives of 13 federal agencies that, as a team, coordinate federal responses to nationally significant incidents of pollution (an oil spill, a major chemical release, or a Superfund response action) and provide advice and technical assistance to the responding agency(ies) before and during a response action.
Read MoreThe National Safety Council is a nonprofit organization devoted to eliminating the leading causes of death.
Read MoreThe Nationwide Marine Definition specifies the types of property that may be insured on inland marine and ocean marine insurance forms.
Read MoreNaturally occurring asbestos is asbestos found in nature in various minerals, such as chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite, tremolite, actinolite, and serpentinite.
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