What to Know About Mandated Insurance Coverage for Autism Services

What you need to know about ... autism.

What every physician needs to know about disability insurance.

Physicians and their patients rely on disability insurance to provide economic protection against unforeseen illness or injury. This article discusses various types of disability coverage and issues that arise in disability claims both from the perspective of the physician as treater as well as consumer.

What do we know about market discipline in insurance?

Market discipline will be one of the three building blocks of Solvency II, but not much attention has been paid to this aspect, either by academics or practitioners. The aim of this paper is to summarize the knowledge on market discipline in insurance and in other sectors of financial services. Looking at banking is especially interesting, since much more study has been done of market disciplin...

What We Know and What We Do NOT Know About the Willingness to Provide Self-Financed Old-Age Insurance

As the publicly financed pay-as-you-go pension systems in Europe come under increasing pressure, workers and politicians rediscover private savings for retirement in Europe – the provision of selffinanced rather than state-financed old-age insurance. This paper summarizes our knowledge about the retirement savings motive, and particularly the willingness of individuals to participate in volunta...

What every pediatrician should know about liver transplantation

Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for children with end-stage liver disease.  Improvement in outcomes (allograft and patient survival) has led to widespread use of pediatric LT worldwide. This success is due to improvement in patient selection, transplant surgery, anesthesia/postoperative care and immunosuppression management. This review will focus on different aspects of LT whi...