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1、Copyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.Chapter 5Types of Insurers and Marketing SystemsCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-2Agenda Overview of Private Insurance in the Financial Services Industry Types of Private Insurers Agents and Brokers Types of Marketi

2、ng Systems Group Insurance MarketingCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-3Overview of Private Insurance in the Financial Services Industry The financial services industry consists of: Commercial banks Savings and loan institutions Credit unions Life and health insurers Propert

3、y and casualty insurers Mutual Funds Securities brokers and dealers Private and state pension funds Government-related financial institionsCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-4Exhibit 5.1 Assets of Financial Services Sectors, 2007 ($billions)Copyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Ha

4、ll. All rights reserved.5-5Overview of Private Insurance in the Financial Services Industry Changes in the financial services industry include: Consolidations The number of firms has declined due to mergers and acquisitions Convergence Existing financial institutions now sell a wide variety of finan

5、cial products that earlier were outside their core business areaCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-6Types of Private Insurers Size of the insurance market, 2007 Life and health insurers: 1009 These insurers sell life and health insurance products, annuities, mutual funds, pe

6、nsion plans, and related financial products Property and casualty insurers: 2723 These insurers sell property and casualty insurance and related lines, including marine coverages and surety and fidelity bondsCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-7Exhibit 5.2 Top Twenty U.S. Lif

7、e/Health Insurance Groups by Revenues, 2007 ($ millions)Copyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-8Exhibit 5.3 Top Twenty U.S. Property/ Casualty Companies by Revenues, 2007 ($millions)Copyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-9Types of Private Insurers Insurers c

8、an be classified by their organizational form: Stock insurers Mutual insurers Reciprocal exchanges Lloyds of London Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) Other types of private insurersCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-10Types of Private I

9、nsurers A stock insurer is a corporation owned by stockholders Objective: earn profit for stockholders Increase value of stock Pay dividends Stockholders elect board of directors Stockholders bear all losses Insurer cannot issue an assessable policyCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights re

10、served.5-11Types of Private InsurersA mutual insurer is a corporation owned by the policyowners Policyowners elect board of directors, who have effective management control May pay dividends to policyowners, or give a rate reduction in advance There are three main types of mutual insurers: An advanc

11、e premium mutual is owned by the policyowners; there are no stockholders, and the insurer does not issue assessable policies An assessment mutual has the right to assess policyowners an additional amount if the insurers financial operations are unfavorable A fraternal insurer is a mutual insurer tha

12、t provides life and health insurance to members of a social or religious organizationCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-12Types of Private Insurers The corporate structure of mutual insurers is changing due to: An increase in company mergers Demutualization, in which a mutua

13、l company is converted into a stock insurer by: Pure conversion Merger Bulk reinsurance The creation of mutual holding companies A holding company is a company that directly or indirectly controls an authorized insurerCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-13Exhibit 5.4 Mutual H

14、olding Company IllustrationCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-14Types of Private Insurers Lloyds of London is not an insurer, but a society of members who underwrite insurance in syndicates Membership includes corporations, individual members (Names), and Scottish limited pa

15、rtnerships New individual members, or Names, who belong to the various syndicates now have limited legal liability Corporations with limited legal liability and limited liability partnerships can also join Lloyds of London Lloyds is licensed only in a small number of jurisdictions in the U.S.Copyrig

16、ht 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-15Types of Private Insurers A reciprocal exchange is an unincorporated mutual The reciprocal is managed by an attorney-in-fact In a pure reciprocal exchange, insurance is exchanged among the members; each member of the reciprocal insures the other

17、 members A separate account is kept for each member A modified reciprocal exchange is similar to an advance premium mutual No individual accounts Copyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-16Types of Private Insurers Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans are generally organized as nonpro

18、fit, community oriented plans Blue Cross plans provide coverage for hospital services Blue Shield plans provide coverage for physicians and surgeons fees Most plans have merged into one entity Many sponsor HMOs and PPOs Some plans have converted to a for-profit status to raise capital and become mor

19、e competitive Copyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-17Types of Private Insurers A Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) provides comprehensive health care services to its members Broad health care services are provided for a fixed prepaid fee Cost control is emphasized Choice o

20、f health care providers may be restricted Less costly forms of treatment are often providedCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-18Types of Private Insurers A captive insurer is an insurer owned by a parent firm for the purposes of insuring the parent firms loss exposures More

21、than 5100 captives exist today Savings Bank Life Insurance refers to life insurance that is sold by mutual savings banks, over the phone or through Web sitesCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-19Agents and Brokers An agent is someone who legally represents the principal and h

22、as the authority to act on the principals behalf Authority may be: Expressed Implied Apparent The principal is responsible for all acts of an agent when the agent is acting within the scope of authorityCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-20Agents and Brokers A property and ca

23、sualty agent has the power to bind the insurer A binder provides temporary insurance until the policy is actually written A life insurance agent normally does not have the authority to bind the insurer The applicant for life insurance must be approved by the insurer before the insurance becomes effe

24、ctiveCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-21Agents and Brokers A broker is someone who legally represents the insured, and: solicits applications and attempts to place coverage with an appropriate insurer is paid a commission from the insurers where the business is placed does

25、 not have the authority to bind the insurer A surplus lines broker is licensed to place business with a nonadmitted insurer Surplus lines refer to any type of insurance for which there is no available market within the state, and coverage must be placed with a nonadmitted insurerCopyright 2011 Pears

26、on Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-22Marketing Systems in Life InsuranceAn agency building system is a system by which an insurer builds its own agency force by recruiting, financing, training, and supervising new agents General agency system The general agent is an independent contractor who r

27、epresents only one insurer, and receives a commission based on the amount of business produced Insurer provides some financial assistance, but the general agent is responsible for recruiting, training, and motivating new agents Managerial system Branch offices are established in various areas The br

28、anch manager is responsible for hiring and training new agents, and receives a commission from the insurer Insurer pays expenses of the branch officeCopyright 2011 Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-23Marketing Systems in Life InsuranceA nonbuilding agency system is a marketing system by w

29、hich an insurer sells its products through established agents A personal-producing general agent is a successful agent who is hired primarily to sell insurance under a contractUnder a direct response system, insurance is sold directly to customers without the services of an agentCopyright 2011 Pears

30、on Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.5-24Marketing Systems in Property and Liability Insurance The independent agency is a business firm that usually represents several unrelated insurers Agents are paid a commission based on the amount of business produced, which vary by the line of insurance Agency owns the expirations or renewal rights to the business Under the exclusive agency system, the agent represents only one insurer or group of insurers under common ownership Agents do no

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