according to statistics released by agricultural insurance fund (aif) less than 4 million acres out of 90 million acres has been covered by pastures insurance. this observation along with several facts motivated authors to study possible barriers which pastures insurance has been encountered in practice. the research population included all the experts in agricultural insurance fund. small popu...

This article contains the latest information on the historical development and present status of all the major U.S. social insurance and public aid programs under the Social Security Act: the Social Security program (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance); Railroad Retirement; Public Employee Retirement; Unemployment Insurance; Workers’ Compensation; State programs for Temporary Disabili...

This study contains a comprehensive scientific analysis of modern problems of risk management in the sphere of state economic security provision using professional liability insurance. The elements of the mechanism for providing economic security are defined, namely: subjects, objects, and instruments of influence. It is stipulated that insurance is the means to provide state economic security....

BACKGROUND A major concern by the health decision makers in Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries is the burden of financing healthcare. While other GCC countries have been examining different options, Saudi Arabia has endeavoured to reform its private healthcare system and control expatriate access to government resources through the provision of Compulsory Employment-Based Health Insurance...

oil industry is the largest economic sector in the country. but despite the insurance role in the energy insurance sector, the insurance industry’s share in the oil and energy presents an inappropriate combination. latest analysis and surveys show that during the last three years the premium experience a negative growth in each year with respect to its previous year and it also shows the premiu...

This paper reconstructs the National Income and Product Accounts to add asset-price (‘capital’) gains national income derive a measure of total returns. It also treats rent-extraction as charge against GDP, not contribution output. Segregating Finance, Insurance, Real Estate sector from rest private shows that most growth in wealth derives rentier activities – dynamic finance capitalism more th...

Subsidies in the Affordable Care Act exchanges and other health insurance programs depend on prices set by insurers – as prices rise, so do subsidies. We show that these “price-linked” subsidies incentivize higher prices, with a magnitude that depends on how much insurance demand rises when the price of uninsurance (the mandate penalty) increases. To estimate this effect, we use two natural exp...

Compensation for asbestos-related cancers occurring in occupationally-exposed workers is a global issue; this is also an issue in Korea. To provide basic information regarding compensation for workers exposed to asbestos, 60 cases of asbestos-related occupational lung cancer and mesothelioma that were compensated during 15 yr; from 1993 (the year the first case was compensated) to 2007 by the K...