Insurance has a long history in sociolegal research, most prominently as a window on accident compensation and related … of any legal field outside criminal law. Sociological research has begun to explore insurance as a form of governance … examines the relationship between liability insurance and tort law in action using the metaphors of window and frame, as well …

contributions in insurance economics since that time. The review begins with the role of utility, risk, and risk aversion in the … beginning of modern economic analysis of insurance activity. This chapter reviews the main theoretical and empirical … insurance literature and then summarizes work on the demand for insurance, insurance and resource allocation, moral hazard, and …

Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear … some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such … insurance company in effect serves as a retailer to homeowners of short positions in real estate futures markets or of put …

more the players needed to share the risk: individuals, corporations, governments, insurance, reinsurance and capital …One of the essential features of business is risk. Future being uncertain, all business activities involve risk of one … type or the other. Aban Off shore faced the risk of losing its gas exploration rig in the ocean, Ranbaxy faced the problem …

when risk is involved, even when full information is available. A simple normative analysis of decisions about insurance …Consumers face many decisions involving risk, yet some researchers claim that consumers cannot make rational decisions … consumers to choose insurance policies with higher deductibles. Possible computer expert systems to help consumers make …

contract -- The insurance clauses of the 1999 FIDIC forms of contract -- The risk and insurance clauses of the 2008 gold book … -- The 2017 FIDIC forms of contract -- White, red, yellow, and silver books -- The risk and insurance clauses of the new 2017 … FIDIC forms of contract -- clause 17 -- The risk and insurance clauses of the 2021 green book -- Insurance covers required …

State guaranty funds are quasi-governmental agencies that provide insurance to policyholders against the risk of … insurance companies, even very risky ones, to borrow from policyholders at rates that do not reflect the insurer's default risk … insurance company failure. But insurance provided by guaranty funds, like all insurance, creates moral hazard problems …