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Insurance plays a key role in the financial industry, and it is also of great importance for people's socio-economic life. Therefore, in this paper, we demonstrate on the problem of analyzing the operating performance of insurance companies, and it is crucial for modern financial industry development. Firstly, we design an index system for evaluating operating performance of insurance companies, which...
U.S. Department of Defense regulations intended to improve cybersecurity within the Defense Industrial Base may cause degradation of critical defense infrastructure. Four impediments to 'clean' compliance, environmental and internal, are detailed. Inability to functionally comply, or to correctly insure, will impact the DIB's cybersecurity decision-making at the enterprise level. Economic impact to...
Since the start of insurance reform on autism diagnosis and treatment coverage in 2001, 47 out of 50 states have passed relevant legal mandate applied to private health insurance companies, and 11 states have made one amendment after the legislation was activated. This paper provides an overview of autism insurance reform, discusses its business impacts, and suggests areas of future research.
This paper provides a survey of key legal questions arising from the development of Internet of Things ecosystems. We analyse in particular the types of relationships and liabilities that are likely to emerge as Internet of Things ecosystems evolve and we consider implications for both organisations and individuals by reference to specific legal and regulatory considerations. In terms of jurisdictional...
Electricity suppliers have low revenue expectations in slum areas due to various risk associated as social and economic conditions. Series of initiatives taken by Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL) as pilot and then implemented to uplift the quality of life of slum resident's as adoption of technology for humanitarian cause: • Energy efficient distribution transformers installed and supply...
Big data from onboard vehicular systems can be used to help determine liability in accidents, streamline insurance pricing, motivate better driving practices, and improve safety--all with potentially minimal impact on privacy.
The development and implementation of worksite health and wellness programs (WHWPs) in the United States (US) hold promise as a means to improve population health and reverse current trends in non-communicable disease incidence and prevalence. However, WHWPs face organizational, economic, systematic, legal, and logistical challenges which have combined to impact program availability and expansion...
This paper considers the current state of liability law for UAVs and UASs. It discusses which party or parties may be liable for various types of incidents and considers how various factors in incidents may trigger complex disputes. The ambiguity as to responsibility, it is concluded, may result in a protracted litigation process and, thus, significant delays to compensation of an injured party. This...
Mangrove forests provide important ecosystem services, including protecting coastlines from the impacts of extreme weather events, such as storm surge and erosion. Unfortunately, these same extreme weather events also degrade mangrove forests. Currently, there are no comprehensive financial mechanisms in place to ensure that mangroves are rehabilitated following storm damage. This article explores...
In this paper, I developed an actuarial method in explaining the reason of the difficulties for the bank in bearing the loss due to the abandoned housing project. This tool can be extensively incorporated into determining the suitable profit / rental rates as it provides how tolerance the bank in bearing the loss in terms of the probability of profit or loss attained by the bank. This model suggested...
This research paper aims to examine the conflict between the utilization of the technology in developing an online database system to keep an electronic health record of patients' and the need to protect an individual's personal data. A pretested questionnaire was used for data collection. A total of 301 individuals participated in this study from all walks of life and various professions, including...
Various studies have proven the positive impact of e-health solutions on treatment success and health care spending. Utilization of e-health is therefore urgently recommended by German health authorities. However, the diffusion of such technologies is currently very low, despite the availability of the underlying technology. A market failure is a likely reason for the unsatisfying situation, as there...
ObjectiveTo understand the forces propelling countries to legislate universal health insurance.
Data Source/Study DesignDescriptive review and exploratory synthesis of historic data on economic, geographic, socio‐demographic, and political factors.
Data Extraction MethodsWe searched under “insurance, health” on MEDLINE and Google Scholar, and we reviewed relevant books and articles via a snowball...
Enterprises were the main finance provider of social insurance system. It was important for government to measure social insurance financial burden precisely. This paper designed an index named "enterprise's social insurance premium burden rate" based on enterprise's balance sheet and made an empirical study based on 842 A share listed companies in Shanghai stock exchange. Result showed...
china promotes engineering guarantee system vigorously to standardize the construction market, performance the construction contract and realize the claims. And the market of engineering guarantee becomes active. This paper analyzes the implementation situation of china's engineering guarantee and the present situation of the market, and summarizes the problems of the engineering guarantee system...
This paper first points out that the economic bottleneck of environment pollution liability insurance is the shortage of both supply and demand market, then analyse the main causes of this phenomenon, expound the necessity of bringing environment pollution liability insurance into policy-type insurance and being executed forcibly at present, discuss the path choose of ratemaking of the environment...
It is world-widely acknowledged that small and medium-sized enterprises (abbreviated into SMEs hereafter) have great difficulty in getting adequate financing to support their substantial development. Therefore, one of the most effective solutions lies in the establishment of the credit guarantee system for SMEs and in this process the governments play an indispensable role. Through analysis of governmental...
The rural migrant workers are playing a very important role in promoting economic development and maintaining social stability in China. In this paper, we will analyze the impacted factors about the corporate loyalty of the rural migrant workers and propose a solution to increase the corporate loyalty of the rural migrant workers, which are the social environment, the personal characteristics, the...
This article regresses the data of settlement and litigation from a Life Insurance Stock Company Limited in Beijing during the period of 2005–2008, finding that the insurer's indemnities adjudicated by a judge is far less than the amounts offered by a policyholder, being little correlated with amounts offered by a policyholder while related strongly to indemnities accepted by an insurer. District...
This paper introduces the current situation of Property insurance and it is unreasonable of the business structure. It summarizes in the structure of the main reason for discussion, and proposes some ideas of the business structure optimized about the property insurance in our country. There is the property insurance the goal programming model in this paper. It points out that it's in the programming...
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