Product Description

A valuable quick-reference fact-finder for agents, brokers, actuaries, underwriters, and ordinary consumers, this handbook defines approximately 4,500 key terms used in the insurance industry. Definitions apply to life, health, property, and casualty insurance, as well as to home owners’ and tenants’ insurance, professional liability insurance, pension plans, and individual retirement accounts. Purchase of insurance policies constitutes a major lifetime expenditure for the average consumer, and an important function of this book is to help non-experts understand what they need and exactly what they are buying when they purchase insurance. Author Harvey Rubin, a Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter, opens with an overview of the insurance industry that points out the many financial instruments available from insurance companies to businesses, professionals and average consumers. He devotes the remainder of this book to definitions, descriptions, and examples that translate technical insurance terminology into clear, comprehensible English. Here is an enlightening and accessible business guide that deserves a place on every home bookshelf. The New York Times calls this book “. . . helpful, particularly for employee benefit and retirement issues.”

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66571 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Vinyl Bound
• 592 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780764138843
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Inside Flap
(back cover)
“. . . helpful, particularly for employee benefit and retirement issues.”
—The New York Times

About the Author
Harvey W. Rubin, Ph.D., holds the Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University--Shreveport, where he is Professor of Finance. He is a Chartered Life Underwriter and a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter.

Customer Reviews

Slightly incomplete
For general knowledge of insurance terms I guess this is an adequate dictionary and nevertheless needed for understanding insurance terms. I find however that being IN the insurance business as a newcomer and needing to have all my insurance words defined, this dictionary lacks many terms used, at least on the Life insurance side of it, so leaves me grasping for other sources and references to find these words which should be defined in this dictionary in the first place.

Excellent reference book
This is an American based book but covers every imaginable insurance term, in every sector of the finance/insurance industry. It not only provides definitions of terms but broadley defines the cover provided under different types of insurance. This is a must for any professional in the financial services/insurance industry as a great reference.

Thick Junk
I have been in the insurance industry 15 years and just decided to buy this as an addition for my work desk. I rarely open the book, however, anytime I go to look up a coverage definition it is not listed. This book is of NO use to me. Not really sure who would use this.............a person who hands out maps at the Auto Club who may need to look up a word or two?