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    obese people pay higher health insurance premiums than people who are not obese? - Rishard Rheyas Obesity has become a serious problem with more than one third of adults being obese in the United States. Obesity is seen as a self-destructive behavior accompanied with smoking and use of other drugs thus‚ government officials and other business bureaucrats expressed the need to impose higher health insurance premiums on the obese. Obesity is not always due to the personal behavior of people and can

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    Why do young people participate in behaviours that put them at risk? Young people may participate in risk taking behaviours for a number of reasons. Peer influence is one factor that may encourage young people to put themselves at risk. This is because if an individual witnesses their peers actively engaging with risky behaviour‚ they may identify the behaviour as positive rather than taking into consideration the consequences. It has been found that young people identify alcohol with positive social

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    INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS TO STUDY QUESTIONS CHAPTER 1: Nature of risk and its management 1. Explain the meaning of risk. In your explanation‚ state the relationship between risk and uncertainty. Risk is defined as a condition where there is the possibility of an adverse deviation from an expected outcome. That is‚ there is the possibility of loss. Risk is a state of the real world in which a possibility of loss exists‚ while uncertainty is a state of mind characterised

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    Guoyi Chen Should Obese People Have Higher Premiums The Obesity epidemic affects millions people of the United States every day. According to the National Institutes of Health‚ “obesity” refers to any individual with a BMI of more than 30 and BMI is simply a calculation that assesses weight relative to height (NIH). In the past decades‚ the number of obese Americans has increased dramatically. Based on the data from Nation Health and Examination Survey‚ about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%)

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    approaches were followed in conducting this term paper. 1.1 Origin of the Report: The report is a partial requirement of the course Risk Management & Insurance (FIN 410). That is why our honorable instructor assigned us to do a term paper on Reliance Insurance Company Limited. The report is conducted based on the financial statement and the website of the company. This report is a reflection of what we have learned in between the course. 1.2 Objective and the Scope of the Report: The report

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    Catastrophe Insurance in Asia -- Illustrated by 2011 Thai Flood Content Page 1. Introduction Catastrophes have become a rising concern all over the world. Natural catastrophes have been rising exponentially over the century while man-made catastrophes such as terrorism are alarming as well. The increasing losses caused by catastrophes have proved their devastating impacts on humans. In this report‚ our group will take a closer look at catastrophe

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    Risk management in insurance IARM GROUP ASSIGNMENT REPORT O RISK MA AGEME T I I SURA CE SECTOR Raja Chaitanya Vikram. G 1 XIMB-PGPBFS (2010-11) Risk management in insurance IARM Financial Risk Management for Insurance Companies Global demographic changes and calamities such as the Asian Tsunami‚ the swine flu‚ Hurricanes Katrina and Rita‚ and the avian flu‚ have forced domestic and international insurance companies to focus not only on what products they offer but also how to improve

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    INTRODUCTION 1.1 Concept of Risk The word risk is certainly used frequently in everyday conversation and seems to be well understood. Risk implies some form of uncertainty about an outcome in a given situation. An event might occur and if it does‚ the outcome is not favourable to us. Risk can be contrasted with the word chance which implies some doubt about the outcome in a given situation; the difference is that the outcome may also be favourable e.g. risk of an accident‚ chance of winning

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    Chapter 1 Introduction to Risk and Insurance Topics (hyperlinked)  Risk  Basic Categories of Risk  Uncertainty  Pure‚ Speculative‚ Fundamental‚ Particular Risk  Law of Large Number  Types of Pure Risk  Objective Risk  Personal‚ Property‚ Liability Risk  Subjective Risk  Burden of Risk in our Society  Chance of Loss  Insurance  Objective Probability  Pooling  Subjective Probability  Basic Characteristics of Insurance  Frequency vs. Severity  Requirements

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    : RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE (PARA) NAME : STUDENT NUMBER : P0109064F COURSE : INSURANCE BROKING AND CLIENTELE SERVICES COURSE CODE : CIN4103 LECTURER : MRS SHONHIWA DUE DATE : 21 OCTOBER 2013 QUESTION: Do a swot analysis of traditional insurance brokers versus bancassurance as intermediaries in transacting insurance business. (100 marks) Introduction

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