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Chicago Hope Meets The Chicago School, Gail B. Agrawal
Chicago Hope Meets The Chicago School, Gail B. Agrawal
Michigan Law Review
Twenty-five years after the enactment of the Federal Health Maintenance Organization Act and nearly five years after the failure of proposed federal health care reform, managed care has come to dominate the medical marketplace. As a result, the relationships among patients, payers, and physicians have changed fundamentally and dramatically. In this market-driven environment, health care - how much it costs, who receives treatment, and who pays for it - may have surpassed the weather as a topic of everyday conversation at dinner tables and water coolers across the country. In the popular press, reports concerning managed care, usually derogatory, are …
The Effects Of Tax Law Changes On Property-Casualty Insurance Prices, David F. Bradford, Kyle D. Logue
The Effects Of Tax Law Changes On Property-Casualty Insurance Prices, David F. Bradford, Kyle D. Logue
Book Chapters
One of the most important components of the balance sheet of a property-casualty insurance company is the loss reserve. In spite of what the term may suggest, a loss reserve is not a pot of funds set aside for the uncertain future. It is an accounting entry, a liability on the balance sheet. More precisely termed the unpaid-losses account, the loss reserve expresses the amount the company expects to pay out in the future to cover indemnity payments that will come due on policies already written for losses that have already been incurred and to cover the costs of dealing …