Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Insurance - General

In the United States, work is the key to economic success, as well as the major source of health care coverage and retirement security. While Europeans look to the State for these benefits, Americans for the most part do not. This system of employment-based benefits means that those disadvantaged in the labor market are also disadvantaged in terms of health care coverage and retirement security.

The authors of this work examine the overrepresentation of Mexican Americans in low wage or service sector jobs, which rarely come with health insurance or retirement coverage. At all ages,...

The European system of insurance supervision under Solvency II constitutes a parallel to supervision of credit institutions under Basel III. At the heart of this new European insurance supervisory regime are the Solvency II Directive, the attendant regulation, and the EIOPA Regulation. The present volume, "Treatises on Solvency II," includes articles on the bases of European insurance supervision and the associated three pillars of solvency, governance, and disclosure, all viewed predominantly from a legal standpoint.

This book explores the central problems underlying the insurance of aviation war and terrorism risks and associated perils. It critically analyses the reasons why conventional insurance markets are unwilling or unable to provide sustainable insurance coverage for aviation war and terrorism risks in the aftermath of catastrophic events such as the terrorist events of September 11, 2001. It also examines some of the prominent concepts proposed and/or implemented after 9/11 to determine whether and to what extent these concepts avoid identified pitfalls. Like many of life's essentials, the...

The new edition of this British Insurance Law Association (BILA)-award winning text is the definitive reference source for marine cargo insurance law.

Written by an author who was closely involved with the revisions to the Institute Cargo Clauses 2009, the work expertly examines marine cargo insurance by reference to important English and foreign legal cases as well as the Marine Insurance Act 1906. Logically arranged to reflect the structure of the Institute Cargo Clauses, the most widely used standard form of cover, this text offers easy to find solutions for today s busy...

Der Band stellt einerseits Vorgeschichte, Verlauf und Auswirkungen eines der spektakularsten Zusammenbruche eines Versicherungskonzerns im 20. Jahrhundert dar und bietet daruber hinaus eine am Beispiel demonstrierte, systematische Analyse der Verflechtung von Misswirtschaft mit Medien, Staat und Gesellschaft.

Die Phonix Lebensversicherung, mit Sitz in Wien und Kunden in 22 Landern, wurde im Jahr 1936 zahlungsunfahig. Sie hatte riesige Verluste aufgeturmt, Bilanzen gefalscht und Schlusselpersonen hofiert. Ihr Sturz drohte eine europaweite Finanzkrise auszulosen und wurde mit...

Dieses Buch vermittelt die Basics sowie praktikable Tools, um sich in guten wie auch in schlechten Zeiten den unterschiedlichsten Situationen im Finanzvertrieb stellen zu konnen. Es richtet sich an selbstandige Handelsvertreter ebenso wie an Fuhrungskrafte des Innendienstes und des angestellten Aussendienstes im Versicherungs- und Finanzdienstleistungsgewerbe.

Der Vertrieb von Versicherungen und Finanzdienstleistungen gehort zu den hartesten Vertrieben am Markt. Wer in diesem Verdrangungsmarkt bestehen mochte und langfristig Zufriedenheit mit seiner Arbeit erfahren mochte, muss...