ALTHOUGH heart disease was not within the purview of the original Workmen's Compensation laws, it has become an important cause of claims under Workmen's Compensation statutes. These statutes are usually rather specific as to the definition of noncardiac "injuries," since most occurrences at work are clearly defined as to nature and time, and also as to the effects of fractures, lacerations, an...

Stop-loss reinsurance is one type of reinsurance contract that has attracted recent attention. In the simplest form of this contract, a reinsurer agrees to pay all losses of the insurer in excess of an agreed limit. This paper concerns the computation of bounds on the stop{loss premium when the loss distribution is unknown, but information about past claim experience is available in the form of...

Correlation in cyber risk represents an additional source of concern for utility and industrial infrastructures, where risks may be introduced by connected systems. A major means reducing is to transfer it through insurance. In this paper, we consider a company which has peripheral branches addition its headquarters, correlation present between all sites insurance adopted hedge against economic...

The problem of production flow in manufacturing systems is analyzed. The machines can be operated by workers or by robots, since breakdowns and human factors destabilize the production processes that robots are preferred to perform. The problem is how to determine the real difference in work efficiency between humans and robots. We present an analysis of the production efficiency and reliabilit...

introduction: neglecting to define important criteria in developing a basic health insurance package and to notice their real roles will result in defining a package which is politically unacceptable, non-economical, technically inefficient or mixed of them. therefore development of basic health insurance package should be according to appropriate composition of influential criteria. this study...

Any account of industrial health in the U.S.A. should start with Dr. Alice Hamilton.t The autobiography of this remarkable woman records not only the author's life-long devotion to the cause of the American industrial worker, but gives a picture of conditions in American industry which, when she first began her work, were a veritable jungle of ignorance, prejudice, and suspicion. But if Dr. Ham...

payment mechanism health insurance is a serious challenge for policy makers, access to health, continuing care, need to technology, huge expenses a considerable part of health funds is collected. therefore organizing and designing appropriate policies for organizing, financing, payment mechanism for providers and role of diagnostic related groups system. in this study, our main objective study ...

this research explores the effective ways of sales promotion at liability insurance according to upgrade policies in tehran. the goal is development of planning strategic to help iran insurance industry.  first, we evaluate opinions and views of iran insurance company experts and iran insurance sales agents in tehran on sales promotion (also, priority of the promotion policies) of liability ins...

The Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland – have developed a particular model of welfare, employment and economic governance. It is based on universal access to taxfinanced social services and social insurance, full employment secured by expansive macro-economic policies and active labour market policies, highly organized labour markets, corporatist interest mediation, an...

modern societies belief life insurance scheme, which is designed to be backbone of man survival, ensure financial security and offers readymade source of long term capital financing for the infrastructural project is capable of combating the besetting problem of man so that life can be made easy and continuous. the dramatic increase in competition within the insurance sector and the needs of in...