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Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance

Personal Portfolio Management: Fundamentals and Strategies, 1/e
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James C. Van Horne, Stanford University

Focusing on problem solving from managerial, consumer, and societal perspectives this insurance primer emphasizes both the business managerial aspects of risk management and insurance and the numerous consumer applications of the concept of risk management and insurance transaction.



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Features

  • Presents material from both perspectives of consumers and members of a society with many conspicuous insurance problems.
    • Covers auto, homeowners, and life insurance in Chapters 8-12.
  • Presents many of the current problems facing the insurance industry: the future of Social Security, financing AIDS, the feasibility of national health insurance.
  • Includes two chapters on risk management (one covering fundamentals; the other advanced topics).
  • Includes many important pedagogical aids.
    • Review questions at the end of each chapter.
    • Case Studies including several requiring student solutions.
    • Research Assignments, many requiring the use of a computer and spreadsheets.
    • Many interesting examples and graphical illustrations.
NEW TO THIS EDITION:
  • NEW - Reorganized with material on consumer-oriented (personal) insurance moved forward in the text while commercial (business) insurance has been moved toward the rear.
  • NEW - Incorporates a complete revision of Risk Management Fundamentals.
  • NEW - Provides coverage of international risk management accompanied by an additional case study. (Ch. 4)
  • NEW - Includes an appendix on Ethics and Insurance Sales. (Ch. 6)
  • NEW - New coverage of Employment Practices Liability including one case study each on sexual harassment and the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Ch. 10)
  • NEW - Presents coverage of the Emergence of Private Insurance in former Communist countries (Eastern Europe). (Ch. 5)
  • NEW - Presents coverage of the current problems with Social Security. (Ch. 23)
  • NEW - Includes a 30 % increase in the number of end-of-chapter questions.
  • NEW - Two-color design throughout.


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Table of Contents

  1. Fundamentals and Terminology.
  2. Insurable Loss Exposures.
  3. Risk Management 1: Essentials.
  4. Risk Management 2: Advanced Topics.
  5. Private Insurance Companies.
  6. Insurance Occupations.
  7. The Insurance Market: The Economic Problem.
  8. Insurance Regulation.
  9. Insurance Contracts.
  10. Basic Property and Liability Insurance Contracts.
  11. Homeowners Insurance.
  12. The Personal Auto Policy.
  13. Commercial Property Insurance.
  14. General Liability Insurance.
  15. Special Liability Insurance.
  16. Bonding, Crime Insurance, and Reinsurance.
  17. Life Insurance Policies.
  18. Annuities.
  19. Life Insurance Planning.
  20. Standard Life Insurance Contract Provisions and Options.
  21. Simplified Life Insurance Mathematics.
  22. Medical Expense and Disability Insurance.
  23. Employee Benefits.
  24. Social Security.
  25. Unemployment and Workers' Compensation Insurance.
Glossary
Appendices


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Supplements

  • Instructor's Manual with Solutions (0-13-895897-1); (89589-6)
  • Test Item File (0-13-895905-6); (89590-4)
    • Coded for level of difficulty.
    • Multiple-choice, true-false, and short answer.
    • Over 1000 questions.
    • 50% NEW Questions.
  • PowerPoint Transparencies (0-13-895913-7); (89591-2)
    • Downloadable from PH Business FTP site.
    • Also available on diskette.
  • Win PH Custom Test (0-13-917593-8); (91759-1)


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