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- Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002: Terrorism Insurance Program, Treatment Of Terrorist Assets, Federal Reserve Board Provisions
- The ability of businesses and individuals to obtain property and casualty insurance at reasonable and predictable prices, in order to spread the risk of both routine and catastrophic loss, is critical to economic growth, urban development, and the construction and maintenance of public and private housing, as well as to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Risk Management: An Update on Terrorism Risk
- Article discusses that U. S. insurance companies would respond to the new risk of terrorism were answered in November 2001 when the Insurance Services Office filed terrorism exclusions to be used by their member companies on property and casualty insurance policies. Article talks about Federal Reinsurance, insured losses, incomplete solution,...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- The Crisis in the Property Insurance Industry
- The property and casualty insurance industry is, just as any industry, in business to make a profit. This means that for any individual insurance company, the premium dollars received must equal the losses paid out, plus a margin for the cost of doing business and profit. It may not be...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Bill: In the Senate of the United States
- The paper reveals a Bill in the senate of the United States to ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism. It displays that the ‘‘market share'' of a participating insurance company shall be calculated using the total amount of direct written property and...
- White papers 2002-06-10
- Price Indexes for Property and Casualty Insurance
- One of the most challenging aspects of developing a price index for insurance is that of defining the industry output. There are two concepts of output that are widely used by statistical agencies in the United States. This paper will focus on the output concept and pricing methodology chosen by...
- White papers 2004-09-07
- The Impact of Technology on Property / Casualty Insurance
- This paper touches on 4 aspects of technology on property /casualty insurance which include Underwriting, Pricing and reserving, Capital management, Distribution of products. What is the role of expert systems in underwriting, especially for middle size commercial policies? How can data mining be used to better classify risk? And finally,...
- White papers 2002-04-25
- Obesity, Liability & Insurance
- Obesity is a growing international problem that is imposing immense additional costs on the economy and society as a whole, and becoming an increasingly important cost driver and exposure issue for insurers. This report summarizes various areas of insurance industry exposure, including increased claim frequency and severity in health, disability...
- White papers 2004-01-08
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Index-Based Insurance Derivatives in Hedging Casualty Insurance Transactions
- This paper addresses the pre-event measurement of hedge effectiveness for companies transferring risk to counterparties through index-based derivative transactions. The purpose of this white paper is to provide information on evaluating the effectiveness of index-based insurance derivatives in hedging property/casualty insurance transactions for companies. It also discusses reasons for insurance...
- White papers 1999-10-04
- Property Casualty Insurance - A Small Business Guide
- Running a small business presents many challenges. As a small-business owner, you must try to minimize the financial risks your business faces. Some risks you may consider to be acceptable, while others are unacceptable because the loss would seriously harm your business or even force it to close. Many of...
- White papers 2004-04-13
- Fair Value of P&C Liabilities: Practical Implications
- Fair value financial reporting has been an ongoing initiative by both the IASB and FASB. Specifically, this paper examines the impact of this accounting change on a "typical" U.S. property and casualty insurer, identifies the practical issues associated with the measurement of property and casualty insurance liabilities on a fair...
- White papers 2004-05-04
- Future of Property & Casualty Insurance Claims
- Market downturn and increased competition is forcing major changes in the insurance industry and in the way insurance companies operate. Competition is permanently altering the expectations in the minds of insurance costumers on what they should expect of claims processing. This impacts and will continue to impact Architecture and Technology...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Applications of Simulation Models in Finance and Insurance
- The paper describes a number of applications of simulation methods to practical problems in finance and insurance. The first entails the simulation of a two-stage model of a property casualty insurance operation. The second application simulates the operation of an insurance regime for home equity conversion mortgages (also known as...
- White papers 2003-10-31
- Mixing and Matching: Prospective Financial Sector Mergers and Market Valuation
- This paper considers life insurance, property and casualty insurance, securities, and commercial firms as potential matches for banks. It examines two types of evidence extracted from stock price data. First, option-pricing theory is used to compute a direct measure of diversification gains from potential consolidation. These results identify potential gains...
- White papers 2000-12-12
- Property & Casualty Insurance
- The property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry is in two businesses: underwriting risk and investment management. In its underwriting function, the industry examines the frequency and severity of potential damage to physical assets property or injury to persons casualty, and then places a value on insuring against, or underwriting, those...
- White papers 2002-10-28
- Outsourcing Technology Overseas on Behalf of the United States Property Casualty Insurance Industry
- The United States insurance industry has continued to look for new ways to increase profitability, whether it is in designing new ways to produce revenue, or introduce project management to the equation to reduce expenses. The document emphasizes that outsourcing reduces expenses. Many of the advantages of outsourcing technology have...
- White papers 2004-09-11
- International Accounting Standards Applied to Property and Casualty Insurance - Overview of Reserving Issues
- This paper provides an overview of the newly developing Inter national Accounting Standards IAS or IFRS for Insurance, with emphasis on issues impacting poverty and casualty insurers and the reserving work that actuaries do to support that. Those standards will emerge in two phases, with the more challenging actuarial issues...
- White papers 2004-08-12
- Property and Casualty Insurance for a Home Business
- More and more entrepreneurs are operating their new businesses from home. The advantages are obvious: Running a home-based business is convenient and cheaper than renting or buying commercial office space. But running any business - including a home office - without adequate insurance coverage can be a recipe for disaster....
- White papers
- Property And Casualty Insurance Underwriter
- The Property and Casualty Insurance Underwriter job description template includes the following job summary: To appraise and select commercial Property and Casualty (P & C) risks that the insurance company may insure, recommending whether an applicant is an acceptable risk or not. Underwrites policies for property and casualty loss, workers'...
- Tools & templates 2009-11-01
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- 257 attend annual forum.(Feature)(Property and casualty insurance industry)(Brief Article)
- The Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum drew 257 attendees to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York Jan. 13. The event's sponsors include the American Institute for CPCU, the American Insurance Assn., the Assn. for Cooperative Operations Research & Development, the Geneva Assn. for Risk...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Farmers Sees Strategic Advantage From Announced Merger With Zurich Insurance; Merger To Create Third-Largest Property and Casualty Group in the United States
- LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 16, 1997--Thursday's announced merger agreement between B.A.T Industries' financial services group, which includes Los Angeles-based Farmers Group Inc. and Zurich Insurance, with headquarters in Switzerland, to form Zurich Financial Services Group, will create one of the world's largest property and casualty insurance groups and the third-largest property...
- Research articles 1997-10-16
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