Insurance and actuarial studies

At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "e;world's largest Negro business.

This book offers an introduction to the technical foundations of discrimination and equity issues in insurance models, catering to undergraduates, postgraduates, and practitioners.

This study explores the policy options a provincial government might consider in extending health care coverage to the purchase of prescription drugs and dental care.

Taylor gives a brief history, geared specifically to an American audience, of the evolution of the Canadian national health insurance system from the 1940s to the late 1980s.

Cancellation & Nonrenewalpresents specific guidelines regarding the cancellation and nonrenewal of insurance policies, including cancellation by a premium finance company.

Risk management has become a key factor of successful organizations.

Innovative, long-term strategies for reducing vulnerability to large-scale natural disasters and for providing financial support for disaster victims.

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "e;Ambitious and readable .

This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market.

There is increasing pressure for all of us to take responsibility for our own financial security and wellbeing, but we often overlook how the benefits that come with a job can help us do that.

Charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing social, political, and economic neoliberalism into everyday life.

The Wiley Paperback Series makes valuable content more accessible to a new generation of statisticians, mathematicians and scientists.

Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), What-If, and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) reviews.

The United States is engaged in a critically important and contentious debate on how to overhaul the way it delivers and pays for long-term care.

The perks for American servicemen and women.

Target Market Series: Auto Dealerships is a valuable asset to insurance and risk management professionals who are looking for exposure, risk management, and insurance information that is focused solely on auto dealerships.

This book provides a compact and systematic overview of closure properties of heavy-tailed and related distributions, including closure under tail equivalence, convolution, finite mixing, maximum, minimum, convolution power and convolution roots, and product-convolution closure.

This book explores recent topics in quantitative finance with an emphasis on applications and calibration to time-series.

Ideally, it would be desirable if we could all adopt a high-minded commitment to a risk-free existence.

The author's particular interest in the area of risk measures is to combine this theory with the analysis of dependence properties.

In the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world in which we are currently operating the rapid evolution of forces acting on your company, such as technology, are driving continual change to the degree that you will need to be prepared to evolve and transform again and again to keep pace.

Based on the syllabus of the actuarial profession courses on general insurance pricing - with additional material inspired by the author's own experience as a practitioner and lecturer - Pricing in General Insurance, Second Edition presents pricing as a formalised process that starts with collecting information about a particular policyholder or risk and ends with a commercially informed rate.

Predictive Medicine makes artificial intelligence more accessible for healthcare practitioners without shying away from complex topics and controversial subject matter.

Long before the age of "e;Big Data"e; or the rise of today's "e;self-quantifiers,"e; American capitalism embraced "e;risk"e;--and proceeded to number our days.

Insurance Planning Models: Price Competition and Regulation of Financial Stability is an exciting new book that takes readers inside the secrets of internal organization of the modern general insurance business.

This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly.

Gives insight into eliminating specific classes of hazards, while providing real case histories with valuable messages.

This book offers a discussion about the dramatic development of healthcare business around the world during the twentieth century.

Dieses Buch bietet eine anwendungsorientierte Darstellung mathematischer Methoden der Risikomodellierung und -analyse.

The ALL NEW ERISA Fiduciary Compliance Guide enables you to stay completely compliant with the new Department of Labor Regulations under 408(b)(2), significantly affecting ERISA fiduciary disclosure requirements.

In today's uncertain times, risk has become the biggest part of management.

For undergraduate courses in risk managementand insurance.

A straightforward guide to the evolution, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II Providing a guide to the evolution, practice, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II, Executive s Guide to Solvency II deftly covers this major European regulation which ensures that insurers can meet their risk based liabilities over a one year period to a 99.

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been updated to ensure that it remains the leading reliability textbook and cementing the book's reputation for staying one step ahead of the competition.

An updated edition of the invaluable textbook on the concepts and practical application of nonlife actuarial models.

Private placement life insurance (PPLI) was once the exclusive domain of wealthy investors willing to tackle the logistical challenges of the offshore insurance market.

This book argues that, contrary to received wisdom, some adverse selection in insurance markets is beneficial to society as a whole.

Weave your way through the tangled web of Medicare Medicare for Dummies, 3rd Edition will help you navigate the complicated, often confusing maze of the Medicare system.

A collection of comparative case studies analysing the history, politics and performance of private health insurance globally and its implications for universal health coverage.

Warum Burnout ein strukturelles, kein individuelles Problem ist Burnout wird ein immer wichtigeres Phänomen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, die Kosten belaufen sich auf Milliardenbeträge.

This accessibly written book explains universal healthcare; the many forms it can take; and the issues, debates, and historical context underpinning the continued struggle for its implementation in the United States.

Life insurance remains one of the cornerstones of financial planning.

This book presents recent advances in the theory and implementation of intelligent and other computational techniques in the insurance industry.