Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation
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Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation
Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illegal acts, as evidenced by the recent Enron scandal and many of last year’s corporate financial meltdowns. Ensuring Corporate Misconduct demonstrates for the first time how corporations use insurance to avoid responsibility for corporate misconduct, dangerously undermining the impact of securities laws.
As Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith demonstrate, this need not be the case. Opening up the formerly closed world of corporate insurance, the authors interviewed people from every part o
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“This book is written in a manner that makes it easy to read and understand. It is a must read for employers in all industries who must choose health care coverage plans for their employees. This book would be beneficial to companies of all sizes. It also is an excellent resource for employees who want to understand how health care decisions are made. I applied an ethical framework to this difficult subject. Although I am a 20-year-old veteran of the health care industry, I did not have a complete understanding of coverage plans until I read this book. It is a wonderful, timely resource that I intend to share with my colleagues.” —AORN JOURNAL (Association of Oerioperative Registered Nurses)
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Ensuring Fairness in Health Care Coverage: An Employer’s Guide to Making Good Decisions on Tough Issues
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Review
“This book is written in a manner that makes it easy to read and understand. It is a must read for employers in all industries who must choose health care coverage plans for their employees. This book would be beneficial to companies of all sizes. It also is an excellent resource for employees who want to understand how health care decisions are made. I applied an ethical framework to this difficult subject. Although I am a 20-year-old veteran of the health care industry, I did not have a complete understanding of coverage plans until I read this book. It is a wonderful, timely resource that I intend to share with my colleagues.” —AORN JOURNAL (Association of Oerioperative Registered Nurses)
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“It is a must read for employers in all industries who must choose health care coverage plans for their employees.” —Association of Perioperative Nurses (AORN) Journal
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Inside the Minds: The Insurance Business is an authoritative, insiders perspective on the ins and outs of this dynamic industry and the future of the business, on a global scale. Featuring Chairmen, Presidents, and CEOs, representing some of the top insurance companies across the nation, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive overview of the current state and future shape of the industry. Discussing the inner workings of the business and the key factors that differentiate insurance companies from each other, as well as identifying the biggest risks companies face and ways to hedge these risks, these authors offer practical and adaptable strategies for generating revenues and profiting year after year. From the processes involved in determining a premium for a new customer, processing a claim, and investing the cash from policies, hitting on the essentiality of building a strong brand identity and achieving credibility, to overall tactics around marketing! and customer relations, these authorities articulate the finer points around the business now, and what will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great innovative minds of today, as experts explore in detail what it takes to secure long-term success in this ever-evolving industry.
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Martin D. Feinstein, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, Farmers Group, Inc. – “The Business of Managing Risks”; Constantine “Dinos” Iordanou, President & Chief Executive Officer, Arch Capital Group Ltd. – “Property/Casualty Insurance: A Business of Risk & Reward”; William G. Star, Chairman, President, & Chief Executive Officer, Kingsway Financial Services Inc. – “The Road to Success in the Insurance Industry”; Mark E. Watson, President & Chief Executive Officer, Argonaut Group, Inc. – “The Business of Insuring Business”; James J. Maguire, Chairman & Founder, Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. – “A Glimpse Behind the Scenes”; John W. Hayden, Chairman, President, & Chief Executive Officer, American Modern Insurance Group – “Master the Basics”; Robert V. James, President & COO, Balboa Insurance Group – “A People Business.”