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Spring 2026 Lecture Distance Learning Upper DivisionData from last updated 10/29/2025
Spring 2026
Spring 2026 Instructors:
The course includes principles of insurance, analysis and evaluation of risk exposures, legal aspects of insurance, insurance needs and analysis, policy selection, and insurance company selection and due diligence. Types of insurance that are studied include: property and casualty, health, life, long-term care, disability and general business liability.
Learning Outcomes1Know how to identify and measure risk.
2Understand what insurance is and how it reduces and manages risk (including the concept of pooling risk).
3Understand how the insurance industry operates.
4Develop knowledge of key types of insurance so as to be able to advise clients regarding their appropriateness.
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