C ongress and some state policymakers are considering legislation to promote the growth of association health plans and other types of “multiple employer welfare arrangements” (MEWAs) as a way to expand access to affordable health insurance coverage.These plans band together self-employed people, small businesses, and, in some cases, larger businesses to purchase insurance—all seeking to save m...

A stable and healthy insurance industry plays a vital role in sustaining an economy resistant to economic shocks by providing efficient risk-transition mechanism. There is relative scarcity of research inspecting the impact insurers’ financial insolvency on profitability firms. Employing 2011–2019 panel data 16 non-life companies operating Bangladesh, this endeavors examine impacts measured ret...

Growing financial failure at firm-level can have serious consequences for banks in terms of rising non-performing assets, the absence a strong bankruptcy system. Such scenario India made its dysfunctional insolvency system to be reformed, introducing new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016. Using panel 33,845 Indian firms over period 2008–2019 by employing difference-in-differences approa...

in addition to its primary role of providing financial protection for other industries the insurance industry also serves as a medium for fund mobilization. in spite of the harsh economic environment in nigeria, the insurance industry has been crucial to the consummation of business plans and wealth creation.  however, the continued downturn experienced by many countries, in the last decade, se...