Background: The development of the insurance industry and the accounting system are two important pillars of economic development of any country and the ethical responsibility of auditors requires them to reduce the risk of their activities. The present study has developed a hierarchical analysis of the components affecting the professional liability insurance of auditors in order to develop th...

Collusion between insurers and drug companies Insurance companies and drug manufacturers can give consumers a headache when they join together. They may also be violating the law. The recently-proposed federal health care plans spark fear and apprehension in most areas of the health care industry. Many physicians, hospitals, and corporations are scrambling to predict the path of legislation and...

From the introduction of Australia's national health insurance scheme (Medicare) in 1984 until recently, the proportion of the population covered by private health insurance declined steadily. Following an Industry Commission inquiry into the private health insurance industry in 1997, a number of policy changes were effected in an attempt to reverse this trend. The main policy changes were of t...

II. THEORIES OF THE CRISIS............................................................................................3 Industry Collusion.................................................................................................................3 The Underwriting Cycle........................................................................................................4 The New Litigiou...