Inside the Insurance Industry - Third Edition

Inside the Insurance Industry - Third Edition
Author: Kevin Glaser
Publisher: Inside the Insurance Industry - Third Edition
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2014-01-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780991038817

This book is written in an easy-to-understand format that allows people with limited insurance experience to better understand various areas in the insurance industry. It contains just the right mix of broad and specific information.

Insurance and Behavioral Economics

Insurance and Behavioral Economics
Author: Howard C. Kunreuther
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-01-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521845726

This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry policy makers involved in selling, buying and regulation.

Health Insurance

Health Insurance
Author: Michael A. Morrisey
Publisher: Asociation of University Programs in Health Administration/Health Administration Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781640551602

History of Health Insurance in the United States -- The Affordable Care Act -- A Summary of Insurance Coverage -- The Demand for Insurance -- Adverse Selection -- Underwriting and Rate Making -- Risk Adjustment -- Moral Hazard and Prices -- Utilization Management -- Managed Care, Selective Contracting, and the Insurance Industry -- Provider Consolidation, Monopsony Power, and the Managed Care Backlash -- Insurance Market Structure, Conduct, and Performance -- Premium Sensitivity and Health Insurance -- Compensating Differentials -- Taxes and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance -- Employers as Agents -- Health Savings Accounts and Consumer-Directed Health Plans -- The Small-Group Market -- The Individual Insurance Market -- Health Insurance Regulation -- High-Risk Pools -- An Overview of Medicare -- Retiree Coverage -- Medicaid, Crowd-Out, and Long-Term Care Insurance.

Risk Management for Insurers

Risk Management for Insurers
Author: René Doff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011
Genre: Insurance companies
ISBN: 9781906348618

This fully updated user-friendly second edition will quickly help you get to grips with risk management terms and techniques, and how they relate specifically to the insurance industry. It also demonstrates how Solvency II is already shaping the regulatory agenda and its likely impact on the insurance industry.

Navigating the Insurance Maze

Navigating the Insurance Maze
Author: Barbara Griswold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Mental health insurance
ISBN: 9780615133096

Using a case example, this book gives psychotherapists a comprehensive look at the myths and realities of working with insurance.

Solvency II in the Insurance Industry

Solvency II in the Insurance Industry
Author: Maria Heep-Altiner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319770608

This book illustrates the EU-wide Solvency II framework for the insurance industry, which was implemented on January 1, 2016, after a long project phase. Analogous to the system for banks, it is based on three pillars and the authors analyze the complete framework pillar by pillar with a consistent data model for a non-life insurer, which was developed by the Research Group Financial & Actuarial Risk Management (FaRis) at the Institute for Insurance Studies of the TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences. The book leverages the long-standing and close cooperation between the University of Limerick (Ireland) and the Institute for Insurance Studies at TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences (Germany).

Insurance Disputes

Insurance Disputes
Author: Robert Merkin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 985
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000340511

Written by an impressive team of specialist contributors, Insurance Dispute is the authoritative guide to litigation for both the insurer and the insured. Divided into two parts – principles of law and their practical use in individual types of insurance, it aims to identify and resolve questions such as: • How should the claimant handle a dispute? • Is the claim within the cover? • When should an insurer dispute cover? • What steps can an insurer take to deny cover? Updated and revised to include new chapters on marine insurance, the Financial Ombudsman Service and ATE insurance, Insurance Disputes is essential reading for anyone involved in insurance law and litigation.

Handbook of Insurance

Handbook of Insurance
Author: Georges Dionne
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1133
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461401550

This new edition of the Handbook of Insurance reviews the last forty years of research developments in insurance and its related fields. A single reference source for professors, researchers, graduate students, regulators, consultants and practitioners, the book starts with the history and foundations of risk and insurance theory, followed by a review of prevention and precaution, asymmetric information, risk management, insurance pricing, new financial innovations, reinsurance, corporate governance, capital allocation, securitization, systemic risk, insurance regulation, the industrial organization of insurance markets and other insurance market applications. It ends with health insurance, longevity risk, long-term care insurance, life insurance financial products and social insurance. This second version of the Handbook contains 15 new chapters. Each of the 37 chapters has been written by leading authorities in risk and insurance research, all contributions have been peer reviewed, and each chapter can be read independently of the others.

Inside the Insurance Industry - Second Edition

Inside the Insurance Industry - Second Edition
Author: Kevin Glaser
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781257851713

Kevin L. Glaser has been involved in the insurance industry for some 30 years, having been involved on the company side in underwriting and claims, and currently serves as a consultant, risk manager, and expert witness on insurance related issues. With his book, Inside the Insurance Industry, Glaser uses his in-depth knowledge of the industry to explore the truths and myths of insurance. He gives readers a glance at what the insurance industry is really like - including how to get through the industry jargon to get the best deal for your insurance dollar, and what the agents and brokers aren't telling you. New to the second edition: a new chapter on insurance litigation, updated claims department information, and much more.