other lines of insurance. The Workmen's Compensation Act of 1897 in Britain required employers to insure their employees against industrial accidents. Public liability insurance, fostered by legislation, made its appearance in the 1880s; it attained major importance with the advent of the automobile....
September 27, 2022 – Medicare Part B premiums and deductibles will decrease in 2023, while Part A costs will rise, according to a fact sheet released by CMS. Medicare Part B offers coverage for physician services, outpatient hospital services, certain home healthcare services, durable medical eq...
Multipurpose cards are accepted by merchants and other service providers in what is often referred to as an “open network.” This essentially means that transactions are routed from a point-of-sale (“POS”) through a network for authorization, transaction posting, and settlement. A variety of...
The technology can handle risk in adverse weather conditions, another dimension of the accepted theoretical framework. UAV is also creating values among the people where it is deployed. Farmers are excited to see something flying over their cultivated land and are sent imagery of any unexpected ...
classification Reinsurance contracts are those contracts on which the Group (the reinsurer) has accepted significant reinsurance risk from another party (the policyholders) by agreeing to compensate the policyholders if a specified uncertain future event (the insured event) adversely affects the policy...
by insurance providers. For example, the above described change in the behavior of customers to use wearable technology for self-improvement and self-monitoring creates new opportunities for health and life insurance. Today, most data arising from connected products is not even used by the ...
The advent of cryptocurrencies has profoundly impacted conventional finance ever since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009 [27]. Positioned as a distributed ledger technology, blockchain facilitates data exchange among designated participants. By aggregating and disseminating transaction data from various data ...
While the safe harbor’s harms are somewhat limited by the advent of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they are not entirely neutralized. This article argues that there are both practical and principled reasons for amending the ADA to remove the insurance safe harbor. Practically speaking, the ...