Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance FROM THE PUBLISHER
Do you want to show your students how risk management and insurance will he important in their business and personal lives? Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance, Seventh Edition covers financial planning, risk management, and insurance in ways that illustrate how expertise in these fields can be used to solve real problems. Written from managerial, consumer, and societal points of view, this insurance primer deals with both business and consumer issues to give students broad coverage of a variety of topics. Expanded coverage of current topics now includes: The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Financial risk management techniques being used as substitutes for commercial insurance. The problems facing the US. social security system. The continuing difficulties facing the U.S. health care delivery program, including coverage of the Healthcare Bill of Rights and Patient Rights. The potential for private insurance in Eastern Europe. The impact and implications of the Internet.
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Includes new or expanded discussions of such current issues as the
potential for catastrophic losses to undermine the solvency of the
property insurance industry; the legal problems presented to
employers by their hiring, terminating, and supervising practices;
the moral and ethical problems faced by insurance agents and brokers;
international risk management problems; the potential for private
insurance in Eastern Europe; and computer literacy.
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