Cyber Risk Insurance
Course Overview The risk of falling victim to a cyber crime is a serious and growing threat for businesses worldwide. Any company, regardless of size, that uses the internet or smartphones in its business operation is vulnerable. According to a recent estimate, the annual cost of cyber crime in the United States is more than […]
Insurance Packages for Small Businesses
Course Overview Insurance Packages for Small Businesses is designed primarily for insurance personnel who will work with their company’s package policies for small- to medium-sized businesses. Before studying the course, students should have an understanding of basic property-casualty insurance principles. The course introduces you to the concept of packaging separate lines of commercial insurance together […]
Foundation Course in Risk Management and Insurance
Course Overview This course provides an introduction to insurance principles, underwriting, claims, and risk management. It is ideal for professionals who are new to the insurance business or who work in nontechnical positions in the industry and would like to learn more about the insurance mechanism. Through the course, learners will gain confidence in serving […]
Executive Certificate in Risk Management and Insurance
Course Overview This course provides an introduction to insurance principles, underwriting, claims, and risk management. It is ideal for professionals who are new to the insurance business or who work in nontechnical positions in the industry e.g. agents, producers and customer service teams and would like to learn more about the insurance mechanism. It is […]
Reinsurance for Insurance Practitioners
Course Overview Reinsurance plays a key role in the world of insurance. As you study this course, you will see how reinsurance helps insurance companies accomplish their goals and deliver the protection insureds need to achieve and maintain financial stability. It is important, therefore, for every insurance professional, regardless of his or her specific job, […]
Underwriting Practices
Course Overview Underwriting is the process of selecting certain types of risks and rejecting others so the insurance company will have a book of business that will create a profit for the company. Underwriting also involves pricing risks and determining policy terms and conditions. But who decides which risks are acceptable to the company? How […]
Underwriting Skills for Agents
Course Overview Underwriting is a critically important function and is performed each time an insurance application is taken. Its purpose is to determine if applications represent risks acceptable to the insurer to determine whether or not the insurer will issue a policy to an applicant. Underwriting is based on a variety of criteria, established by […]
Marine Underwriting Management
Course Overview Some cynics have suggested that the more an underwriter knows the business, the less he or she will be inclined to accept risks and insure. This however, is hardly the way to run a successful insurance business. The essence of underwriting is to assess and accept insurable risks, apply appropriate insurance conditions and […]
Risk Management for Insurers
Course Overview This course introduces you to risk management, and then it takes you step-by-step through the risk management process. This process can be applied to both personal and business risks. It presents a variety of options for treating risk situations, with a special emphasis on the need to offer clients a combination of approaches […]
General Insurance Underwriting Fundamentals
Course Overview This course covers the key categories of risk and the steps involved in managing risk. It also describes the functions of underwriting, the underwriting process and the most common forms of reinsurance, insurance contracts and processing proposals. Learning Objectives After you complete this course, you should be able to: Recognise and classify risks […]