Course programme
SEMESTER - I 101- Principles and Practice of Life & General Insurance-I Unit I : Principles & Practice of Insurance: Nature of Insurance contracts, History of Development of Insurance in India. Life Insurance and General Insurance: Principles of Life and General Insurance, Insurable interest,Utmost good faith, Approximate cause indemnity, Subrogation ,Contribution Legal aspect of Life Insurance, Insurance applications. Unit II : Life Insurance products: Concept of principles of premium rating , Indoor Tariff and Market agreement.Underwriting meaning and process Claims settlement. L.I.C Business Important Types of Insurance policies, Group Insurance, Pension plans (Concepts, principles, advantages, disadvantages, product characteristics, product differentiation, and product development). Unit III : Premiums, methodology and concepts, Options and riders, bonus concept and methodology, Actuarial insurance in India, Mortality principles and tables, Standard, Substandard Average risk, Medical and non-medical policies Unit IV : Effect of build family history, Blood pressure, Impairments of the respiratory Circulatory. Cerebrospinal system, moral Hazards, Some common special reports and their significance., Insurance systems, Information Technology and its usage in Insurance. Unit V : Financial Planning and Insurance, Risk Assessment & Underwriting, Claims Management Marketing and Servicing. Books Recommended: 01. Insurance Principles and Practice-M.V. Mishra –S.Chand 02. Insurance management Principles and Practice- Karam Pal-B.S. BodlaM.C. Garg.-Deep and Deep Publications Pvt. Ltd. 03. Law and Practice of Life Insurance in India-T.S. Mann- Deep and Deep Publications Pvt. Ltd. 04. Principles and Practice of Miscellaneous Insurance-Shri N.N. Mitra, Secretary, Federation of Insurance Institutes, Bombay. 05. Principals of Insurance of Insurance- Dr. P. Periasamy- Himalaya Pub. House 06. Practice of General Insurance- Insurance Institute of India. 07. Principles General Insurance- Insurance Institute of India. ***** 102- Risk Management Unit I : Introduction to Risk Management: Meaning of risk, Basic categories of risk, Types of pure risk, Property risk, Liability risk, Methods of handling risk. Insurance and Risk, Basic characteristics of insurance – pooling of losses, risk transfer, indemnification Unit II : Requirements of insurable risks, Difference between insurance and gambling or hedging, Benefits and costs of insurance to society, Advantages and disadvantages of insurance in handling risk, Risk Management Process, Meaning and objective of risk management, Steps in personal risk management, Risk control and risk financing. Unit III : Sources and Measurement of Risk, Risk Evaluation and Prediction, Disaster Risk Management. Unit IV : Instruments of External techniques of Risk Management: Forwards, Futures, Swaps Options, Forward Rate Agreement, Caps, Collars, Floors and their applications, Pricing techniques, Operational aspects. Unit V : Risk calculations, limits, treatment of risk, (Development of program) Risk aversion, Transferring risk, reducing risk, Time and financial considerations, Decision analysis, Design based on performance Hazard analysis of flammable liquids and gases, flammable gas and dust explosion, Flammable warehouses, Industrial Fire & Explosion protection, selection, explosions, explosion protection, electrical equipment, Reliability & probability, Reliability calculations, for series and parallel combinations, Reliability calculations simple events, complex events, Hazard operability studies. 11 12 Books Recommended: 01. Risk Management and Insurance-C. Arthur Williams, Jr. Richard M. Heins-McGraw-Hall book company. 02. Risk Management-David Bell. Arthur Schleifre,Jr.Harvard