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Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 64.00Balancing rigour and intuition, and emphasizing applications, this modern text is ideal for university courses and actuarial exam preparation. more...
Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 26.00This must-have manual provides solutions to all exercises in the authors' groundbreaking text. more...
The Company That Solved Health Care
BenBella Books, Inc. 2010; US$ 24.95Even with new health-care policies, one thing is clear: health-care costs will continue to rise dramatically. While individuals may get better coverage, businesses will have the same problem they've had for the last four decades. Health care, one of corporate America's largest expenses, is growing at double-digit rates, and nothing done in Washington... more...
A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 34.95A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management is for all those who need to make sound decisions in important but risky situations; people who work with groups to identify, prioritize and respond to risks, and who wish to deliver value. The authors provide readable and practical advice in terms of avoiding pitfalls, understanding risk management and... more...
Renters Insurance
Silver Lake Publishing 2005; US$ 20.00Most of the insurance that?s advertised to protect the place where you live and the things that you own inside is aimed at homeowners. But more than half of all Americans rent their apartments or homes. These people are an underserved market both for insurance and for information about it. This book includes analysis of standard insurance policy forms,... more...
Actuarial Theory for Dependent Risks
Wiley 2006; US$ 136.00The increasing complexity of insurance and reinsurance products has seen a growing interest amongst actuaries in the modelling of dependent risks. For efficient risk management, actuaries need to be able to answer fundamental questions such as: Is the correlation structure dangerous? And, if yes, to what extent? Therefore tools to quantify, compare,... more...
Public Liability Insurance
Thorogood Publishing 1999; US$ 180.00We are all far more litigious and conscious of our rights than we were. The courts are interpreting negligence far more widely. Claims have soared - and so have awards. The consequences for individuals and businesses, especially small businesses, can be dire. Fred Collins, an acknowledged expert in the field, provides detailed guidance and technical... more...
The Financing of Catastrophe Risk
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00Is it possible that the insurance and reinsurance industries cannot handle a major catastrophe? Ten years ago, the notion that the overall cost of a single catastrophic event might exceed $10 billion was unthinkable. With ever increasing property-casualty risks and unabated growth in hazard-prone areas, insurers and reinsurers now envision the possibility... more...
Vulture Culture
AMACOM 2008; US$ 9.95The insurance industry is on the brink of collapse ... why do we need to care? And who should we blame? more...
Delay, Deny, Defend
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 25.95An expose of insurance injustice and a plan for consumers and lawmakers to fight it Over the last two decades, insurance has become less of a safety net and more of a spider's web: sticky and complicated, designed to ensnare as much as to aid. Insurance companies now often try to delay payment of justified claims, deny payment altogether, and... more...









