Along with the winds, rain, and storm surges of Hurricane Katrina came a cacophony of voices urging Congress to adopt a catastrophic hurricane fund (CAT fund). A CAT fund, like the bankrupt and highly ...
May 31 of this year was a bittersweet day of sorts. That's the day my license as an insurance producer in the state of New Jersey expired. I never got the chance to actually become the eternally ...
As policy makers grapple with potentially undoing or modifying the largest expansion of health insurance in a generation, the cost and generosity of benefits hold center stage. Traditional ...
Assessment of insurance supervisory systems in member countries began in 1999 under the joint Bank-Fund Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). Evaluations are based on the observance of the ...
Cybersecurity insurance is a new insurance industry product that reflects the havoc wreaked by hacks, data breaches and phishing attempts, which have become bolder because cybersecurity extorting ...
When Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010 — known universally as ObamaCare — they largely ignored every basic actuarial principle of insurance. As a result, ObamaCare was always ...
The United States does not have a properly functioning market for health care, and the financing system needs to be reformed. The market is distorted by a tax policy that is mistargeted, miscalibrated ...