The paper examines the growth of Insurance sector in India and compares the penetration and density levels of Indian Insurance sector with that of China and also estimates the income elasticity of demand for Insurance in India

One of the currents of change sweeping through the insurance industry is the rise of insurance bad faith liability. There is an emerging legal question today as to whether the individual employee adjusters of insurance companies can be subject to bad faith liability.This article examines the...

In this paper we formulate and test a number of hypotheses regarding insurer participation and volume decisions in derivatives markets. Several specific hypotheses are supported by our analysis. We find evidence consistent with the idea that insurers are motivated to use financial derivatives to...

This study scrutinizes conjoint analysis of Micro Health Insurance Programme (MHIP) and determines utility value of MHIPs' attributes from consumer's point of view. It has used two-stage model to observe this matter. First, it finds out the factors, which affect the MHIPs' QALY values and...

The objective of this paper is to examine the financial reporting and corporate disclosure practices of insurance industry in Nepal. Among 25 insurance companies, 22 companies had taken for the study. The paper has been prepared on the basis of prevailing rules and regulation, annual reports and...

In Notice 2014-52, 2014-42 I.R.B. 712 (the Inversion Notice), the Internal Revenue Service described additions that will be made to the Treasury regulations under section 7874 of the Internal Revenue Code to curb inversions. As discussed in this article, the Inversion Notice targets the use of...

The dynamics of insurance companies amount in Ukraine, Russia and СЕА for period from 2001 to 2008 years, the tendency of internal insurance market changes, analysis of the largest foreign groups represented in equity of the Ukrainian insurance companies are stressed in the article

Various tax policies provide consumers with forms of insurance. Social security has the payoff characteristics of an annuity. The income tax provides consumers with a degree of Income insurance because the government shares part of the individual's income risk. Redistributive taxes can be used...

We develop a general equilibrium model of competitive insurance and equity capital markets to show how aggregate asset and insurance liability risks affect insurance prices and regulation. In the unique equilibrium of the benchmark unregulated economy, insurers raise external capital solely by...