Basel III, regulating the solvency of banks, is to be fully implemented by 2027 while Solvency III directed at insurers being prepared. In view past experience, it will closely modelled after III. This raises two questions. (i) Will and more successful than their predecessors? (ii) Is appropriate continue banks in same way? The first question motivated an earlier finding that I II risked induci...

this systematic review intended to combine factors associated with tuberculosis treatment non-adherence and lost to follow up among tb patients with/without hiv in developing countries. comprehensive remote electronic databases (medline, (pmc, pub med central), google scholar and web of science) search was conducted using the following keywords: tuberculosis, treatment, compliance, adherence, d...

This article calls attention to a difficulty with insurers' investment policies that seems to have been overlooked so far. There is the distinct possibility that insurers cannot satisfy the demands of different stakeholders in terms of expected returns and volatility. While using the capital asset pricing model as the benchmark, this article distinguishes two groups of stakeholders that impose ...

To gain insights into the impact of Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act, this study assesses the enrollment, utilization, and financial performance measures of California Medicaid focused health insurers. The study compares these quarterly measures, during the expansion period of 2014 to the same quarterly measures in 2013 and 2012. During 2014, Medicaid focused insurers expanded e...

For decades state legislators have called for mandatory insurance laws, some legislators arguing their view that drivers of uninsured vehicles are high risk and a public safety problem. In opposing such laws, however, insurers respond that drivers of uninsured cars closely resemble drivers of insured cars. Despite opposition by insurers, to date 48 states have adopted mandatory insurance. Since...