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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 2 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | For many years, introductory insurance textbooks presented insurance as a subject based in contracts. Slowly, the course has moved toward a consumer orientation, providing students with a broad, descriptive survey of the insurance field, covering topics such as legal aspects, life and health, and property and liability. Over the past 10 years, textbooks began to promote, and to a limited degree, incorporate a stronger business risk management component while maintaining a consumer orientation. Harrington/Niehaus' Risk Management and Insurance 2e is written to take the next step offering the essential aspects of insurance contracts and the insurance industry while providing a substantially more conceptual analysis and attention to business risk management and public policy issues that exists in current texts. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Scott Harrington | | Hardcover: | 704 pages | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill/Irwin | | Publication Date: | July 15, 2003 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0072339705 | | Product Length: | 9.24 inches | | Product Width: | 7.48 inches | | Product Height: | 1.23 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.65 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.3 inches | | Package Width: | 7.4 inches | | Package Height: | 1.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Good Reference Aug 28, 2000
Our organization is making a transition from reinsurance only to providing risk management services. This transition has posed many challenges, including training of our employees. This text has provided us a readable reference for employees to learn more about risk and risk management. Reviews from our staff are good.
 excellent Oct 05, 2011
By Claudia
quick sending and when I didn't required the book anymore the return process was without any problems!! Thank you very much!!
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 A Book Guaranteed to Promote Risk Management Aversion Apr 07, 2010
By Ahmet Celebiler
Two distinguished academician have spent an incredible amount of time and energy and thought to prepare and publish a book to replace all books on the subject. Unfortunately their failure resulted in a nightmare for students who are forced to read this book and base their ideas, values and knowledge of risk management and insurance on this book.
If I had had the misfortune of having this book as a text in a class, I would never have chosen my profession in risk management and insurance. If I had to use this book as the text of my course, I would refuse to teach risk management and Insurance in Undergraduate or Graduate classes.
The authors achieve partial success only in relation to the first of their four major objectives. The book is a detriment to good decision making in real conditions, definitely does not enhance the ability of the reader to think critically and analytically, and is totally useless in explaining how insurance markets perform.
After totally memorizing this book you can be an academician and get the new students to memorize the book again, in a vicious circle. It is impossible for the reader who is not already a professional to discern what is important and what is significant among the plethora of useful and totally unnecessary information.
There are no real life cases. There are no real people, there is not even a mention of psychology, perception, behaviour, culture, education, attitude.
The insurance companies and the reinsurance companies and all the agents and the brokers and the loss adjusters, salvage companies, etc. are just there. Why they are there, and what makes them tick is not important. Everyone is totally aware of their risks and all the alternative methods of loss control, transfer and retention. They all live in a totally defined sterile environment where all the players are logical and try for the optimum with full knowledge of their total legal, fiscal, geographical, mechanical, technical and economic and administrative environment. And, no one has a social or psychological environment.
Anyone who has studied this subject with this text book would have been totally flabbergasted with the recent crises, the previous Lloyds scandals, the price fixing of the major brokers and reinsurers, the many tricks of the insureds, and the terrible decision making of both insurers and insureds on issues of risk and insurance management.
It is as if this book negates the gamut of the NGOs related to risk management and insurance, and requires that all risk and insurance professionals become mathematicians and statisticians, some of whom would not know what to do if questioned by Marilyn Vos Savant in relation to the probabilities of the car or the goat behind the door.
I am sorry that I was unable to write with the "Principle of Good Will" in mind, but that is totally lacking in the book as well.
Unless you hate your students, do not use this as "The" text book. And if you want to motivate your employees to understand more about risk and risk management or insurance, do not give them this book in a corporate setting.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Risk is in purchasing this book Feb 06, 2010
By Lizzie
"Lizzie"
This was without a doubt the worst textbook I have ever attempted to read. Every thought just went on and on and on and on never ever getting to the point. Instructors: DO NOT MAKE YOUR STUDENTS READ THIS!!!
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
nice book with average price Jun 16, 2009
By Yushuang He
"Rule Boss"
I bought this book because of school needs, it is a little pricy, but brand new and nice. I would try to use those paper back ones next time, see how is the difference
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