Later this year, new provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will transform the health care industry. Consumers will be able to purchase insurance through health insurance marketplaces, but many people who already have insurance could see their premiums rise. Insurers will need to help consumers navigate the new system.

Genetics and genetic testing raise key issues for insurance and employment. Governmental and public concern galvanised the British insurance industry into developing a code of practice. The history of the development of the code, issues of genetic discrimination, access to medical information, consent and the dangers of withholding information and the impact on the equity of pooled risk are exp...

A great deal of the present concern regarding future use of genetic tests by insurers stems from a lack of knowledge of the basic tenets of private, voluntary insurance. For this reason, I would like to examine briefly some of the fundamental principles of insurance before directly addressing issues associated with genetic testing. Insurance is intended to provide financial protection against u...

This paper examines the short and long run dynamic relationships exhibited between economic growth and growth in the insurance industry for nine OECD countries. This is achieved by conducting a cointegration analysis on an unique set of yearly data for the level of real GDP and total real premiums issued in each country from 1961 to 1996. Causality tests are then also conducted whilst accountin...

The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) practice involves reengineering of various customer-related processes. The objective of this study is to understand how CRM system enables the business to transform its processes especially the selling chain into the customercentric ones. This study identifies opportunities and barriers to the selling chain reengineering in the Korean Insurance Industr...

CONTRIBUTORS Irina Leonova, Financial Economist, Division of Market Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading Commission David Taylor, Special Counsel, Division of Market Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Alan Deaton, Chief of Data Strategy Section, Division of Insurance and Research, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Mark Montoya, Senior Business Analyst, Federal Deposit Insurance...

the current study aims to investigate the factors affecting  development of the services brand identity in insurance industrial. therefore, considering the importance of brand identity, and in order to succeed in today's competitive market, in this paper, the relevant literature in the field of brand identity development is reviewed to investigate the effect of its dimension on development...

This paper examines risk in the insurance industry, discusses some initial thoughts on how intelligent applications can be used to model, understand and control risk and describes a recent use of natural language processing in insurance underwriting. elements. Not surprisingly risk and the mathematics associated with risk namely probability and statistics were accepted and advanced at insurance...

Today, increased level of customer awareness caused themto access to the other suppliers easily and they can get their servicesfrom the competitors with similar or even better quality and same price.Therefore, focusing on customers and preventing them to leave, has beenthe most important strategy for any company. Researches have shownthat retaining former customers is cheaper than attracting ne...