TY - GEN AU - GUPTA, P.K. TI - INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT SN - 978-93-5051-667-6 U1 - 368 PY - 2004/// CY - MUMBAI PB - HIMALAYA PUBLISHING HOUSE KW - INSURANCE KW - RISK MANAGEMENT N1 - Chapter 1 Understanding Risk Chapter 2 Risk Management and Control Chapter 3 Enterprise Risk Management Chapter 4 Introduction to Insurance Chapter 5 Principles of Insurance Chapter 6 Mathematical Basis of Insurance Chapter 7 Insurance Contracts and Provisions Chapter 8 Primary Insurance Laws Chapter 9 Special Purpose Insurance Laws Chapter 10 Miscellaneous Laws Concerning Insurance Chapter 11 Insurance and Economy Chapter 12 Insurance Industry in India Chapter 13 Accounting and Taxation for Insurance Chapter 14 Insurance in Global Perspective Chapter 15 Introduction to Life Insurance Chapter 16 Life Insurance Contracts & Policy Provision Chapter 17 Life Insurance Products Chapter 18 Life Insurance Underwriting and Rating Chapter 19 Life Insurance Claims Management Chapter 20 Group Insurance Chapter 21 Life Assurance Management Chapter 22 Introduction to General Insurance Chapter 23 Practice of Non-Life Insurance Chapter 24 Fire Insurance Chapter 25 Marine Insurance Chapter 26 Automobile Insurance Chapter 27 Health Insurance Chapter 28 Rural Insurance Chapter 29 Social Insurance Chapter 30 Project and Engineering Insurance Chapter 31 Liability Insurance Chapter 32 Miscellaneous Insurance Chapter 33 Functions and Organization of Insurance Chapter 34 Product Design & Development Chapter 35 Underwriting Chapter 36 Insurance Pricing Chapter 37 Marketing of Insurance Products Chapter 38 Claims Management Chapter 39 Insurance Intermediaries Chapter 40 Financial Aspects in Insurance Companies Chapter 41 Reinsurance Chapter 42 Information Technology in Insurance Chapter 43 Risk Management in Insurance Companies N2 - The book is organized from a combination of three perspectives-(a) insurance and risk management, (b) insurance classes and products and (c) managerial aspects in insurance business. Part I introduction the concepts of risk management to the readers. Chapter 1 conceptualizes the risk definitions, classes of risk and the methods of handling risk. Chapter 2 attempts to provide an overall view of the risk management and control systems. Chapter 3 has been deliberately included to apprise the readers about the distinct approaches to risk management i.e. individual approach and the organizational approach popularly titled as Enterprise Wide Risk Management. Part II introduces insurance as a risk-mitigating device. Chapter 4, 5 and 6 respectively deal with the insurance terminologies and concepts and how risk is mitigated via insurance markets principles underlying insurance contracts and the mathematical theory. Part III explore the insurance business environment in India. It has been divided into two sections Section I deals II deals with economic and financial environment covering the historical evolution if insurance, the privatization of the insurance sector and insurance industry facts, accounting and taxation aspects and global picture of insurance. Part IVdeals with the life insurance business covering the life insurance players and products, claim settlement and procedural aspects, group insurance and life assurance management. Part V focuses on non-life category. It covers the history of general insurance, the players and their performance, product wise the various non-life insurance categories. Attempt has been made to provide the statistics to the maximum possible extent. Part VIof the book is an attempt to explore the functional areas of insurance business more specifically the organization structures of insurance companies, design and development of products, management of claims, pricing and marketing of products and the financial operations of insurance companies. Chapter 40 is elaborated to include the ALM aspects. It also includes the emerging areas like reinsurance business, automation of insurers operations and risk management for insurance companies. ACCOUNTANCY, AUDITING AND COSTING BANKING AND MONETARY ECONOMICS COMMERCE AND MANAGEMENT CBSE ECONOMICS MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY RESEARCH WORKS BIOGRAPHIES POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION ENGINEERING FOOD, NUTRITION AND HOSPITALITY LIBRARY SCIENCE AND FINE ARTS ENCYCLOPAEDIA DICTIONARIES COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION MAHARASHTRA - HIGHER SECONDARY : STD XI AND XII FICTION PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY WISE BOOKS UR - www.himpub.com/manual/pcg085 ER -