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Full-Text Articles in Insurance Law
The Regulation Of Specialty Policies In Life Insurance, Spencer L. Kimball, Jon S. Hanson
The Regulation Of Specialty Policies In Life Insurance, Spencer L. Kimball, Jon S. Hanson
Michigan Law Review
Every entrepreneur is vitally concerned with selling methods. Success depends upon sales. Sales depend upon desire for the product. Desire for most products, including life insurance, is not inherent but is created by the efforts of the entrepreneur. In the case of life insurance, an effective job of creating the desire, i.e., of selling, is usually necessary to convince a prospective insurance buyer that over a long period he should allocate a significant portion of his income to the purchase of an intangible such as life insurance.
Foreign Investment Protection: A Reasoned Approach, Earl Snyder
Foreign Investment Protection: A Reasoned Approach, Earl Snyder
Michigan Law Review
The main purpose in protecting private foreign investment is to encourage capital to move to newly developing nations in spite of serious, existing non-business risks. These risks are (1) the political risk (outright and "creeping" expropriation), (2) the transfer risk ( currency controls and inconvertibility of funds), and (3) the calamity risk (insurrection, revolution, war, etc.). But why encourage this? Why should an affluent, powerful nation seek, in effect, to transport overseas some of its affluence and power? Why--in the case of the United States-should encouragement be given to that which may, according to some, tend to tip still more …