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INSURANCE
Insurance is more important than the average person is
aware. Beyond protecting a car or house, insurance is what is
needed to
protect those who wish to go forward in business, because it would be
difficult
(not to mention foolish) to do so without being prepared to cope with
potential
disasters. This is especially true of large operations.
Risk management,
among other things, is a way of figuring out if risks are worth taking
considering their benefits and which are not.
The subject guides for business, finance, economics, and
accounting
or others may be of interest as well.
DATABASES
EBSCO
As ever, EBSCO is a great way to do research. It is
actually an aggregator, and that means that it searches lots of
different
databases at the same time. For business-related information, one
might want
to select these particular ones (to avoid getting irrelevant hits):
Academic Search Premier
Business Source Complete
Legal Collection
Newspaper Source
Regional Business News
Vente et Gestion (business journals in French)
Economia y Negocios (business journals in Spanish)
Hospitality & Tourism Index
Academic Search Complete
Electronic
Journals
This allows you to browse ULM’s available journals by name,
so you can know very quickly whether or not we have the publication you
want.
JSTOR
- The
scholarly journal archive
There are many journals on JSTOR-- it means "Journal
storage." You can search by issues and genres, and inside the
article
text itself. JSTOR brings you journal pages just as they appear
in print-- and
just about as usefully.
LexisNexis
Academic Search
LexisNexis has devoted a specific part of its powerful
database interface to Business research (accessible by clicking the
corresponding link on the left of the front-page). Using it will
be extremely
useful as it has detailed company information, news, journals, and
more. Also,
don't forget the general news or the Legal Research option.
Mergent
Online
This resource can produce a lot of things, including very
detailed profiles of companies with codes, numbers, recent stocks,
contact
information, summaries of what they are, financials, competitors, and
more. Do
remember, though, that it only goes back as far as 1997. If you
want to
dates earlier than that, you'll have to use the print version. As
this
time, they are shelved in the stacks.
INTERNET
RESOURCES
A.M.
Best
A.M. Best Company is a credit rating organization, and it is
very well-known and trusted. There is no cost to sign up for a
basic account,
but it has some limitations. It can provide news, press releases,
information
on legal claims by state, and more.
The
American
Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (AICPCU)
This site is produced in association with the Insurance
Institute of America (IIA). The site has educational support
material,
information on exams, and a discussion
forum.
claimspages.com
This is a very large link hub site with a variety of
resources, like directories, specialized search engines, articles, job
postings, and more. There are also discussion forums for specific
subjects in
insurance.
Hays B. Clark
Insurance Resource Center
This is right here at ULM. Insurance students and
professors can access this special collection of insurance resources in
room
2-27 of the Administration building.
Louisiana
Department of Insurance
This website has quite a few useful resources. It can be a
quick way to reach specific offices in the department (fraud,
Commissioner of
Insurance, legal, etc.) and to find forms. There is an online glossary
,
press releases, guides, FAQs, links, and more.
Louisiana
Insurance
Guaranty Association
LIGA was created in 1970 to protect the insured when an
insurance provider itself collapses. It covers property and
casualty
insurance. It has an Insolvency
List that shows what companies are insolvent, when it
happened, the POC
Filing Deadline, and the state where it resided. This site also
publishes LIGA
annual reports.
Insurance
Education Foundation
As the name implies, the IEF promotes education on the subjects
insurance and risk management. This is aimed at everyone rather
than only
those studying it. There are sets of complete lesson plans (even
with
PowerPoint files) on various subjects, news, links, articles, and more.
insure.com
Although there are ads on its pages, this site can be useful
as a directory and for finding links when you browse by state.
You can
also browse the site by types of insurance. There are articles
containing
useful advice, news, FAQs and more.
The
International
Association of Industrial Accident Boards & Commissions (IAIABC)
The IAIABC "is a not-for-profit trade association
representing government agencies charged with the administration of
workers'
compensation systems throughout the United States, Canada, and other
nations
and territories." The website has some useful literature, like
surveys,
presentations, and documents. There is also a message board, here
called a web
board.
National
Association
of Insurance Commissioners
The NAIC's primary concerns are ethics and making sure
insurance providers are fair to the public and fair to
competition. The site
has news, alerts, legislative information (sometimes appearing
alongside
relevant articles), meeting information, and much more.
Separate parts of the
site are dedicated to consumers, industry, and members.
The
National
Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA)
PIA
represents insurance agents in the United States and Puerto Rico.
The
site has papers on topics like flood insurance and crop
insurance, news, information on events, a Spanish language section for
"agentes latinos," and more.
The
National
Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds
"The NCIGF monitors national insurance activities and
coordinates information for multi-state insolvencies." The website has
news and updates, reports, manuals, directories, and a useful links
page.
The
National Underwriter
The National Underwriter is a publishing company, so most
parts of this site require a subscription, but it still has quite a few
free
articles. There are publications on specific topics, such as
Life, Health,
Casualty, and others.
PCI
PCI a property/casualty trade association and it promotes
members' public policy positions. The site has news, articles on
industry
issues, an RSS feed, and other pages related to the association.
Society
of
Insurance Research
As its name implies, Society of Insurance Research promotes
research in insurance and respect for doing it. There is news,
information on
events, and the site's collection of links is very nice.
Yahoo!
Insurance
The portal site yahoo.com has a portion set aside for
insurance. This is, of course, meant for average consumers, but
it does have
news, editorials, advice, guides, a glossary, and calculators, all with
a
pleasingly polished presentation.
BOOKS
AT ULM
Reference Books
These are
located in the reference section on the first floor
Dictionary of insurance
Author: Davids,
Lewis E.
Publisher:
Littlefield, Adams Quality
Paperbacks,
Pub date:
c1990.
Call: HG 8025 .D3
1990
The entries in this dictionary are a little longer for some
words than in The Dictionary of Insurance Terms. There are
"see" references, a directory of organizations, and although there is
a list of abbreviations in the front, they also appear in the
dictionary
itself.
Dictionary of insurance
terms
Author: Rubin,
Harvey W.
Publisher:
Barron's,
Pub
date: c1995.
Call: HG8025 .R83
1995
This reads very much like any other dictionary, and is
concise. There are "see" referrals to other entries, and it is
sometimes illustrated by graphs. There is also a useful
abbreviations and acronyms
section in the back of it.
Securities industry
yearbook
Author: Securities
Industry Association.
Publisher:
Securities Industry Association],
Pub
date: 1980-
Call: HG4907
.S398
This book has a variety of information, calling itself "a
guide to the securities industry." There are top fifty lists on
different
criteria, tables, and short descriptions on individual companies with
URLs,
contact information, important people, departmental contacts, and other
such
details.
Books
. . . located
in the stacks or Net library
Assessing the
environmental impact of farm policies
Author: Thurman,
Walter N.
Publisher:
AEI Press,
Pub date:
1995.
Call: HG9968 .G66
1995
This small book is from the American Enterprise Institute
and covers not only environment impact of agriculture, but the economic
results
of them. There is an index, references, and footnotes on
pages. There are
other subject-specific insurance books like this.
Health insurance resources
[electronic resource] : a
guide for people with a chronic disease or disability
Author: Northrop,
Dorothy E., 1942-
Publisher:
Demos Medical Pub.,
Pub
date: c2003.
e-Book
(if this link doesn’t work, try looking it up in
the catalog)
This is a guide on the subject of health insurance and the
infirm specifically. Chapters are divided by types of health
insurance and
legislation. The text is like a handbook, making frequent use of
paragraph
headings and bullets. There are appendices with links, a
directory divided by
state, programs, index, and definitions for acronyms.
If you're clueless about
insurance and want to know
more
Author: Godin, Seth.
Publisher:
Dearborn Financial Pub.,
Pub date:
c1998.
e-Book
(if this link doesn’t work, try looking it up in
the catalog)
As the title clearly suggests, this is meant for the general
public. It is not necessarily useless, however, as this handbook
explains some
basic things about many different kinds of insurance. There is
also a
glossary, resources page, and index.
Insurance company
operations
Author: Webb,
Bernard L.
Publisher:
American Institute for Property and
Liability Underwriters,
Pub date:
c1981.
Call: HG8075 .I52
1981
This is very much like a handbook, with paragraph headings,
bullets, tables, chapter notes, index, etc. Although it is rather
old, this
book could be useful as it covers the basics of how insurance is
administered
in given situations.
McGill's life insurance
Author: Graves,
Edward E.
Publisher:
The American College,
Pub date:
c1994.
Call: HG8951 .M227
1994
This book works as a handbook does, and each chapter goes
over a different aspect of life insurance (term, whole, annuity,
etc.). There
are tables and graphs to illustrate, some sample forms, chapter notes,
and an
index.
Of course, that can’t
represent
absolutely everything that there is. For more information, see
the library
catalog, visit the stacks, or the URLs below. It is also entirely
possible to
find information related to your topic in other disciplines.
This guide was created with the help of these very useful
resources:
http://library.msstate.edu/content/templates/?a=272&/
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/business/insurance/default.htm
http://www.ldi.la.gov/useful_links.htm
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