Risk Management and Insurance / Edition 2

by Scott Harrington, Gregory R. Niehaus

Overview

For many years, introductory insurance textbooks presented insurance as a subject based in contracts. Slowly, the course has moved toward a consumer orientation, providing students with a broad, descriptive survey of the insurance field, covering topics such as legal aspects, life and health, and property and liability. Over the past 10 years, textbooks began to promote, and to a limited degree, incorporate a stronger business risk management component while maintaining a consumer orientation. Harrington/Niehaus' Risk Management and Insurance 2e is written to take the next step offering the essential aspects of insurance contracts and the insurance industry while providing a substantially more conceptual analysis and attention to business risk management and public policy issues that exists in current texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072339703
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.
Publication date:	07/15/2003
Series:	The McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

1. Risk and Its Management

2. Objectives of Risk Management

3. Risk Identification and Measurement

4. Pooling Arrangements and Diversification of Risk

5. Insurer Ownership, Financial, and Operational Structure

6. Insurance Regulation

7. Insolvencies, Solvency Ratings,and Solvency Regulation

8. Insurance Pricing

9. Risk Aversion and Risk Management by Individuals and Corporations

10. Insurability of Risk, Contractual Provisions, and Legal Doctrines

11. Loss Control

12 Legal Liability for Injuries

13. Automobile Insurance

14. Homeowners Insurance

15. Life Insurance and Annuities

16. Employee Benefits: Overview and Group Medical Coverage

17. Retirement Plans

18. Workers' Compensation and Employee Injuries

19. Social Security

20. Corporate Risk Management and Shareholder Wealth

21. Tax, Regulatory, and Accounting Factors Affecting Corporate Risk Management

22. Risk Retention/Reduction Decisions

23. Commercial Insurance Contracts

24. Hedging Risk with Derivative Contracts

25. Alternative Risk Transfer

26. Analysis Tools used in Corporate Risk Management

27. Enterprise Risk Management: A Case Study

28. Corporate Liability to Customers, Third Parties, and Shareholders

29. Issues in Liability Risk and It's Management