HCMI 3221: Risk Management and Insurance
Fall 2024 TR 11:00-12:15 BUSN 202
Instructor: Shane Murphy; Email: shane@uconn.edu; Website: https://shane-murphy.uconn.edu/; Office: BUSN 460
Office Hours: TBD and by appointment
Materials including the syllabus can be found on HuskyCT
On this page you can find a calendar which includes links to materials from each week and lists the weeks readings. Homework assignments are to do a reading response for one of the readings and are listed on HuskyCT. Material about the midterm, final, and paper are also on HuskyCT.
Optional book: McNamara, Michael and Rejda, George. Principles of Risk Management and Insurance (I have 14th edition, 2022)
Course Schedule:
(for off campus access, you may need to use the UConn VPN)
August 27:Intro, defining Risk (slides)
* (Optional) M&R Chapter 1
August 29:More Risk definitions (slides)
* (Optional) M&R Chapter 1
September 3: Economic and probability foundations of risk and insurance (slides)
* (Optional) M&R Chapter 2
September 5: Economic and probability foundations of risk and insurance (slides)
* (Optional) M&R Chapter 2
September 10: First steps in the risk management process (slides)
* (Optional) M&R Chapter 3
September 12: Insurance markets (slides)
* (Optional) M&R Chapter 5
September 17: Insurance Company Operations (slides)
September 19: Insurance Company Balance Sheets (slides)
September 24: Regulation (slides)
September 26: Legal principles (slides)
October 1: Components of Insurance Contract (slides)
October 3: Disaster (slides)
October 8: Risk adjustment and PReP (slides)
October 10: Midterm review
October 15: Midterm
October 17: History of life insurance (slides)
October 22: Midterm review
October 24: Life Insurance (slides)
October 29: Life Insurance (slides)
October 31: Business Insurance (slides)
November 7: Health Insurance (slides)
November 12: Social Insurance
November 14: Health Insurance (slides)
November 19: Guest lecture – Captive Insurers and Commercial Insurance
November 21: Commercial Insurance (slides)
December 3: Homeowners and Auto Insurance
December 5: