This note presents survey findings regarding risk management and insurance curriculum design issues. Several courses are a primary foundation experience.

This paper provides one assessment of the current status and future expectations of risk management and insurance (RMI) education. This assessment is based on a survey of academic members of the three major RMI academic organizations (ARIA, SRIA, and WRIA) conducted at the end of the 1999...

Numerous firms offer competing ratings of insurer financial condition. Insurance consumers, producers, and others commonly puzzle over which rating is more accurate. A 1994 Government Accounting Office (GAO) report judged the performance of a group of these insurance rating agencies. That report...

The bibliographies of 17 "risk" journals were evaluated to determine the relative influence of these "risk" journals on risk, insurance, and actuarial research published during the years 2001 through 2005. Tables are provided that show the frequency with which each of these journals...

The basis of this teaching case is a small nursery and landscape business in the Northeast United States. The case describes how the company attempted to implement a decentralization and employee empowerment program to move relevant decision-making closer to the work site. It illustrates that...