Risks insurance market management

It is not even clear if size of operation in itself is related to hazard management and the incidence of occupational trauma. A study of explicit and implicit risk pooling of small employers in the US workers compensation insurance market, based on the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, found little support for the hypothesis that employees and dependents of small firms are likely to be averse to health risks should they obtain coverage comparable to that held by large-firm employees (Monheit Vistnes, 1994). 

Today, the (re)insurance industry is a sophisticated amalgam of specialties and entities connected through a variety of global links. To understand how this risk management engine works, it is useful to consider a simplified view of the transactional relationships that exist in the (re)insurance market (Fig. 1). 

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Social protection. The set of public interventions aimed at supporting the poorer and more vulnerable members of society, as well as helping individuals, families, and communities manage risk. Social protection includes safety nets (social assistance), social insurance, labor market policies, social funds, and social services. 

As industries become ever larger and more expensive, there may be cases where even though an organization desires to obtain insurance, it may not be available in the market.Therefore in this case even more elaborate risk reduction measures may have to be rehed upon or employed than anticipated to reduce the risk profile that was found acceptable to management as would have otherwise been acceptable with insurance in place. 

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These figures are almost insignificant in comparison with the 25,000 billion US dollars that the sub-prime crisis and the European debt crisis could cost the Western systems. Once again, governments have been forced to intervene on a massive scale to insure against risks that were supposed to be managed by a freely competitive market. 

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