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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,005 Views
19 Pages

Selection of an Insurance Company in Agriculture through Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making

  • Adis Puška,
  • Marija Lukić,
  • Darko Božanić,
  • Miroslav Nedeljković and
  • Ibrahim M. Hezam

20 June 2023

Crop insurance is used to reduce risk in agriculture. This research is focused on selecting an insurance company that provides the best policy conditions for crop insurance. A total of five insurance companies that provide crop insurance services in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,199 Views
30 Pages

15 September 2015

In the paper, we introduce a multi-objective scenario-based optimization approach for chance-constrained portfolio selection problems. More specifically, a modified version of the normal constraint method is implemented with a global solver in order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,006 Views
15 Pages

Targeted Outreach by an Insurance Company Improved Dietary Habits and Urine Sodium/Potassium Ratios Among High-Risk Individuals with Lifestyle-Related Diseases

  • Sunao Tanaka,
  • Junji Fukui,
  • Akira Otsu,
  • Shintaro Yokoyama,
  • Tsukasa Tanaka,
  • Kaori Sawada,
  • Shigeyuki Nakaji,
  • Yoshinori Tamada,
  • Koichi Murashita and
  • Tatsuya Mikami

27 June 2025

Background/Objectives: The urine sodium/potassium (Na/K) ratio can potentially be used to detect dietary habits that contribute to hypertension. In this prospective cohort interventional trial, we aimed to verify whether private insurance sales staff...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,014 Views
21 Pages

Environmental pollution liability insurance is becoming increasingly important for China to achieve its emission reduction targets. Insurance pricing is a crucial factor restricting the market share of environment pollution liability insurance, from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,555 Views
15 Pages

Impacts of Insurers’ Financial Insolvency on Non-Life Insurance Companies’ Profitability: Evidence from Bangladesh

  • Md. Nur Alam Siddik,
  • Md. Emran Hosen,
  • Md. Firoze Miah,
  • Sajal Kabiraj,
  • Shanmugan Joghee and
  • Swamynathan Ramakrishnan

A stable and healthy insurance industry plays a vital role in sustaining an economy resistant to economic shocks by providing an efficient risk-transition mechanism. There is a relative scarcity of research inspecting the impact of insurers’ fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,192 Views
16 Pages

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority suggests that as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused significant disruption to the economy, businesses, and people’s lives, national supervisory authorities should mit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,901 Views
22 Pages

Determinants of Environmental, Social, and Governance Measures: Evidence from European Insurance Companies

  • Rita Hipólito,
  • Maria Fátima Ribeiro Borges,
  • Maria C Tavares,
  • José Vale,
  • Graça Azevedo and
  • Jonas Oliveira

The present study aims to assess the determinants of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of European insurance companies, exploring the connections between the determinants and each of the three ESG pillars. Using a European p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,879 Views
16 Pages

The recent losses and damages due to climate change have destabilized the insurance industry. As global warming is one of the most critical aspects of climate change, it is essential to investigate to what extent greenhouse gas emissions affect the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,233 Views
18 Pages

Three Horizons of Technical Skills in Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainability of Insurance Companies

  • Julio César Acosta-Prado,
  • Carlos Guillermo Hernández-Cenzano,
  • Carlos David Villalta-Herrera and
  • Eloy Wilfredo Barahona-Silva

26 August 2024

Insurance companies are experiencing unprecedented growth due to several emerging technology functionalities that have transformed the industry’s operations. Through the Three Horizons framework, this study explores the technical skills require...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
16,043 Views
20 Pages

This study investigates the firm-specific factors affecting the profitability of non-life insurance companies operating in Turkey. For this purpose, data of 24 non-life insurance companies operating in Turkey from the period 2006–2013 were brought t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,833 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2024

We examine worldwide Property and Casualty and Life and Health insurance companies from 2004 until 2023, implementing panel regression models and mediation analyses to show that insurers raise their reserves when they face increasing costs for their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,081 Views
20 Pages

Insurance companies play a pivotal role in the financial systems of developing countries, wielding substantial influence on systemic financial stability. Thus, understanding their efficiency, performance, and sustainability is paramount for policymak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,684 Views
17 Pages

12 October 2023

The purpose of this article is to assess the comparability of financial information presented in the annual statements of insurance companies by means of the NiCE (Nijmegen Centre for Economics) index of financial report quality assessment and sugges...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,610 Views
13 Pages

Pension Funds, Insurance Companies and Stock Market Development: Evidence from Emerging Markets

  • Yilmaz Bayar,
  • Marius Dan Gavriletea,
  • Dan Constantin Danuletiu,
  • Adina Elena Danuletiu and
  • Emre Sakar

3 July 2022

Stock markets foster economic growth through meeting the fund requirements of the firms by individual and institutional investors. Pension funds and insurance companies with their long-term investment horizon are critical institutional investors in c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,293 Views
26 Pages

25 May 2023

The research examines the impact of applying the IFRS 17 International Financial Reporting Standard on the development of accounting measurement and disclosure to improve the quality of financial reports when considering compliance with the requireme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,784 Views
23 Pages

We examine the impact of demutualization announcements by 13 life insurance companies during 1996-2000 on the value of existing stock-owned life insurance companies and companies in other segments of the insurance industry. Demutualization announceme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,642 Views
14 Pages

Due to rapid technological advancements and intense competition, organizations must find new ways to do business. As a result, changes in an organization’s structures, systems, and strategies are now a pre-requisite to survive the competition....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,860 Views
24 Pages

This research examines the relationship between capital structure, intellectual capital, and financial performance among insurance companies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Anchored in a positivist paradigm, the study employed descriptive and quantitati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,370 Views
20 Pages

Company–University Collaboration in Applying Gamification to Learning about Insurance

  • Teresa Rojo,
  • Myriam González-Limón and
  • Asunción Rodríguez-Ramos

Incorporating gamification into training–learning at universities is hampered by a shortage of quality, adapted educational video games. Large companies are leading in the creation of educational video games for their internal training or to en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
11,332 Views
24 Pages

An integrated Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for Sustainability Performance Assessment for Insurance Companies

  • Ramin Gharizadeh Beiragh,
  • Reza Alizadeh,
  • Saeed Shafiei Kaleibari,
  • Fausto Cavallaro,
  • Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani,
  • Romualdas Bausys and
  • Abbas Mardani

21 January 2020

To stay competitive in a business environment, continuous performance evaluation based on the triple bottom line standard of sustainability is necessary. There is a gap in addressing the computational expense caused by increased decision units due to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
872 Views
17 Pages

26 May 2025

This study evaluates the utility derived by policyholders in a Danish pension company, from their life insurance coverages. We quantify the relative importance policyholders assign to their existing coverages versus a hypothetical complete coverage s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
12,436 Views
22 Pages

Automated Car Damage Assessment Using Computer Vision: Insurance Company Use Case

  • Sergio A. Pérez-Zarate,
  • Daniel Corzo-García,
  • Jose L. Pro-Martín,
  • Juan A. Álvarez-García,
  • Miguel A. Martínez-del-Amor and
  • David Fernández-Cabrera

19 October 2024

Automated car damage detection using computer vision techniques has been studied using several datasets, but real cases for insurance companies are usually dependent on private methods and datasets. Furthermore, there are no metrics or standardized p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,119 Views
22 Pages

12 June 2021

Consumer behaviour is one of the most important and complex areas of research. It acknowledges the buying behaviour of consumer clusters towards any product, such as life insurance policies. Among various factors, the three most well-known determinan...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2,552 Views
6 Pages

Hospital and health system bankruptcies and closures continue to rise in the United States. They are troubling news not only for patients and communities but also for insurance companies. Hospital closures often lead to higher costs for insurers due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,432 Views
20 Pages

4 January 2022

The risk-based capital (RBC) ratio, an insurance company’s financial soundness system, evaluates the capital adequacy needed to withstand unexpected losses. Therefore, continuous institutional improvement has been made to monitor the financial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,393 Views
38 Pages

11 April 2025

The operational efficiency of insurance companies is crucial for their long-term stability and sustainable development. Climate risk has emerged as a significant factor affecting insurers’ operational performance in the context of global climat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,376 Views
14 Pages

Capital Allocation Methods under Solvency II: A Comparative Analysis

  • Pablo Durán-Santomil and
  • Luís Otero-González

19 January 2022

The objective of this document is to analyze different methods that an insurer can use to allocate capital to his or her different lines of business or business segments under Solvency II. For this analysis, a review of the main methods developed in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,671 Views
18 Pages

Differences in Perception of Healthcare Management between Patients and Professionals

  • Diego Moya,
  • Mercedes Guilabert,
  • Rafael Manzanera,
  • Gloria Gálvez,
  • Marta Torres,
  • Adriana López-Pineda,
  • María Lourdes Jiménez and
  • José Joaquín Mira

Patient perception and the organizational and safety culture of health professionals are an indirect indicator of the quality of care. Both patient and health professional perceptions were evaluated, and their degree of coincidence was measured in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,126 Views
20 Pages

18 December 2023

In the field of finance and insurance, addressing the optimal investment and reinsurance issue is a focal point for researchers. This paper contemplates the optimal strategy for insurance companies within a model where wealth dynamics adhere to a jum...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
452 Views
23 Pages

Optimal Investment Considerations for a Single Cohort Life Insurance Portfolio

  • Sari Cahyaningtias,
  • Petar Jevtić,
  • Carl Gardner and
  • Traian A. Pirvu

1 December 2025

This study examines the portfolio optimization problem of an insurance company that issues an annuity, receives the associated premiums as a lump sum, and invests in a financial market. The insurer’s objective is to determine an investment stra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,979 Views
21 Pages

29 November 2022

In this paper, a novel artificial intelligence technique for the estimation of near-optimal resource management is proposed. The model utilizes a two-stage data envelopment analysis to find the best-practice frontier of the decision-making units. By...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,115 Views
27 Pages

12 December 2023

German health insurance companies increasingly strive to position themselves as health partners to their customers to improve customers’ health and contain costs. However, there is uncertainty about customers’ preferences for health servi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,913 Views
28 Pages

In response to the financial crisis, a number of reforms to bank regulation have been introduced. Many of these reforms seek to improve the resilience of banks through making changes to their structure. In the U.K., the Banking Reform Act 2013 was en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,089 Views
14 Pages

New Suptech Tool of the Predictive Generation for Insurance Companies—The Case of the European Market

  • Timotej Jagrič,
  • Daniel Zdolšek,
  • Robert Horvat,
  • Iztok Kolar,
  • Niko Erker,
  • Jernej Merhar and
  • Vita Jagrič

14 October 2023

Financial innovation, green investments, or climate change are changing insurers’ business ecosystems, impacting their business behaviour and financial vulnerability. Supervisors and other stakeholders are interested in identifying the path tow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,331 Views
20 Pages

6 September 2025

The behavioral theory of the firm explains how firms react to performance feedback, yet little is known about how firms integrate backward-looking feedback with forward-looking assessments of market opportunity. This study proposes and tests a retren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,055 Views
12 Pages

Financial Risk and Profitability Management in Russian Insurance Companies in the Context of Digitalization

  • Sergey Viktorovich Ilkevich,
  • Ekaterina Yevgenievna Listopad,
  • Natalya Vladimirovna Malinovskaya,
  • Polina Petrovna Rostovtseva,
  • Nataliya Nikolaevna Drobysheva and
  • Andrei Viktorovich Borisov

11 November 2022

The dynamics of the financial reliability of insurers show rather unstable and often unfavorable trends, which indicate an increase in the risks of their financial insecurity and requires searching for reserves to improve their financial condition in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
13,857 Views
13 Pages

The drivers of financial success of the insurance industry are of interest to several players in any economy including the government; policymakers; policyholders; and investors. In Kenya; there have been relatively few studies on this topic; most of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,212 Views
19 Pages

9 August 2021

The severe flooding occurring in parts of Thailand in 2011 constituted the fifth most costly catastrophe worldwide during the past 31 years. Many businesses suffered either directly or indirectly. A sharp downturn in the country’s economy resulted, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,344 Views
19 Pages

13 November 2024

The automotive supply chain is one of the top eight value chains that cause 50% of global emissions. Despite its significance, limited literature has researched the role of insurance companies in addressing automotive supply chain emissions. This res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,299 Views
14 Pages

Reimbursement Policies of Swiss Health Insurances for the Surgical Treatment of Symptomatic Abdominal Tissue Excess After Massive Weight Loss: A Retrospective Cohort Study

  • Valeria Pruzzo,
  • Francesca Bonomi,
  • Leon Guggenheim,
  • Astrid Navarra,
  • Daniel Schmauss,
  • Reto Wettstein and
  • Yves Harder

19 September 2025

Background: Patients with symptomatic abdominal tissue excess following massive weight loss (MWL) often experience skin affections associated with hygiene challenges, functional impairments, and psychological distress, all of which significantly impa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
926 Views
18 Pages

8 November 2025

This study examines the nonlinear connection between audit quality and insurance firm ESG performance based on a sample of 31 MENAT-region insurance companies from 2017 to 2022. Based on a fixed-effect model and quadratic regression, the main results...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,007 Views
26 Pages

11 June 2018

The Solvency II directive asks insurance companies to derive their solvency capital requirement from the full loss distribution over the coming year. While this is in general computationally infeasible in the life insurance business, an application o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,525 Views
18 Pages

Cyber Insurance Premium Setting for Multi-Site Companies under Risk Correlation

  • Loretta Mastroeni,
  • Alessandro Mazzoccoli and
  • Maurizio Naldi

22 September 2023

Correlation in cyber risk represents an additional source of concern for utility and industrial infrastructures, where risks may be introduced by connected systems. A major means of reducing risk is to transfer it through insurance. In this paper, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,876 Views
21 Pages

1 April 2025

Although the relationship between ESG performance and firm performance has been the subject of several studies, the nonlinear relationship between ESG performance and the corporate performance of insurance companies remains less explored, specificall...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,410 Views
7 Pages

Insurance agents offer insurance products to prospective insureds and then submit a Life Insurance Application Letter (SPAJ). The issuance of this SPAJ is done offline. During the pandemic, this process was also carried out online. Our research quest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,622 Views
18 Pages

Stock Price Forecasting for Jordan Insurance Companies Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic Utilizing Off-the-Shelf Technical Analysis Methods

  • Ghada A. Altarawneh,
  • Ahmad B. Hassanat,
  • Ahmad S. Tarawneh,
  • Ahmad Abadleh,
  • Malek Alrashidi and
  • Mansoor Alghamdi

7 February 2022

One of the most difficult problems analysts and decision-makers may face is how to improve the forecasting and predicting of financial time series. However, several efforts were made to develop more accurate and reliable forecasting methods. The main...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,751 Views
20 Pages

Knowledge Management for Improved Digital Transformation in Insurance Companies: Systematic Review and Perspectives

  • Younes Elgargouh,
  • Mohammed Reda Chbihi Louhdi,
  • El Moukhtar Zemmouri and
  • Hicham Behja

Knowledge Management (KM) plays a pivotal role in contemporary businesses, facilitating the identification, management, and utilization of existing knowledge for organizational benefit. This article underscores the indispensability of effective KM pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,750 Views
20 Pages

23 April 2020

Employees are key stakeholders for companies to maintain their sustainability. Obtaining and disclosing information related to employees can help companies to manage and evaluate the effectiveness of human resources. This paper investigates human res...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,548 Views
7 Pages

This study aims to determine the right strategy for fire insurance companies. This study also discusses policy endorsement in underwriting process. The research method uses descriptive qualitative analysis and SWOT analysis. This research was conduct...

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