There are two main possible approaches for the construction of a risk mapping. The first one consists to identify the risks of the company, and the second is based on a census of risks by the Executive Committee. These two approaches are complementary. In the top-down approach, the major risks are identified by the members of the Executive Committee, with regard to the strategy followed by the ...

Incomplete Risk Adjustment and Adverse Selection in the German Public Health Insurance System by Thomas Knaus and Robert Nuscheler The German statutory health insurance market was exposed to competition in 1996. To avoid adverse selection, a prospective risk compensation scheme was introduced in 1994. Due to their low contribution rates, company-based sickness funds were able to attract a lot o...

We consider a model of a nancial corporation which has to nd an optimal policy balancing its risk and expected proots. The example treated in this paper is related to an insurance company with the risk control method known in the industry as excess-of-loss reinsurance. Under this scheme the insurance company divert part of its premium stream to another company in exchange of an obligation to pi...

Risk theory refers to a body of techniques to model and measure the risk associated with a portfolio of insurance contracts. A first approach consists in modeling the distribution of total claims over a fixed period of time using the classical collective model of risk theory. A second input of interest to the actuary is the evolution of the surplus of the insurance company over many periods of ...

Risk theory refers to a body of techniques to model and measure the risk associated with a portfolio of insurance contracts. A first approach consists in modeling the distribution of total claims over a fixed period of time using the classical collective model of risk theory. A second input of interest to the actuary is the evolution of the surplus of the insurance company over many periods of ...

Based on characteristics of the nonlife joint-stock insurance company, this paper presents a compound binomial risk model that randomizes the premium incomeonunit time and sets the thresholdx for paying dividends to shareholders. In thismodel, the insurance company obtains the insurance policy in unit time with probability p 0 and pays dividends to shareholders with probability p 1 when the sur...

Based on different objectives, various insurance risk models with adaptive polices have been proposed, such as dividend model, tax model, model with credibility premium, and so on. In this report, we will only focus the study on dividend strategies. Here are some reasons why the dividend strategy is of interest. For an insurance company, ruin occurs when a claim size is greater than its reserve...

T he United States is experiencing an unprecedented influx of unauthorized insurers selling phony health insurance.The last time this occurred, more than a decade ago, nearly 400,000 people were left with $123 million in unpaid medical bills. Unauthorized health insurance companies intentionally fail to comply with state and federal law regarding insurance regulation; they collect premiums for ...

Online social network sites (OSNSs) pose a new trend in social communication that gains an enormous popularity in short time. Consequently, the chance for marketing of products and companies is opening. As well, the question about the possibility of using this channel also for the financial sector, including insurance companies, arises. This idea is followed up by the main goal of the paper: to...

The financial strategy of an insurance company has a significant impact on the success of that company's activity. A well-developed financial strategy is able to decrease financial risks and guarantee the discharge of insurance companies’ liabilities in the long-run. One of the main components of financial strategy is financial flow modeling. Mathematical modeling allows a more accurate determi...