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Welcome to the world of property and casualty insurance! This course is intended for students who currently work within the industry and have understanding but have not yet connected all the dots. It is also designed for those students who are just entering the field and need the fundamental principles laid out in a practical way that prevents “Information Overload” and establishes a baseline for successfully navigating a career within the extremely diverse world of property and casualty insurance.
To this end, the major objectives of this course include:
- Provide students with a conceptual framework of the Property & Casualty Insurance market by understanding how insurance came about, how it evolved, who are the parties involved, how do handoffs and risk management take place.
- Provide students with broad knowledge of risk management in order to better prepare students for their future roles as insurance professionals.
- Acquaint students with the essential details of insurance contracts and insurance markets emphasizing on “how” and “why” insurance contracts, transactions are designed and used and the manner in which insurance markets function as compared to other financial instruments and markets utilized in risk management.
- Help students understand the relationship between risk management and other functional areas of the business.
- Enhance the ability of students to think analytically and critically and to solve problems in order to better prepare them for the countless opportunities within the property and casualty insurance space.
Your learning experience in this course has been designed break down learning barriers that are often associated with specialized disciplines such as insurance. With that in mind, you may experience bad jokes, random tangents, strange characters & noises, nutty examples and perhaps even a bit of turbulence. These things have all been put together intentionally for you to enjoy and really learn the material in a way that doesn’t require hours and hours of reading or watching content that doesn’t stick.