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Companies and individuals purchase insurance in order to protect remedy from risk. Insurance does not prevent accidents or restore the status quo, but it does provide the resources with which companies can recover losses suffered when damage occurs. Insurance policies are now routinely taken out to protect companies against property loss, suits by disgruntled employees and suits from customers. In all cases, the higher the perceived risk, the more the insurance underwriter charges in premiums. This research examines the specific market for property and casualty insurance and whether this insurance market should be regulated. To consider this issue, the nature of insurance in general, and of the property and casualty market in particular, will be examined. In addition, this research also considers regulations which already exist and their effectiveness in achieving their goals.

Insurance is a successful business because it allows insured parties to pool the risk that any one of them faces and thus pay a smaller amount to cover that risk (Shuker 7A). Insurance providers estimate the potential risk of a proposed policy and spread that risk among all of the insured parties. The lower the risk and amount insured, the lower the premium. Similarly, the greater the number of insured parties, the lower the premiums that each pays. In this way, automobile insurance is less for an older mid-priced car than for a new expensive car. Business insurance

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his conflict, and the problem of which rules apply to what companies, can create more problems than are solved, according to many in the insurance industry. Even some in the banking industry have expressed doubt that this is a long-term strategy for success (Lonkevich 4). This is not to say that all insurance companies favor greater regulation of the industry. Indeed, some favor deregulation of the industry to provide them with greater market opportunities. These companies typically support the formation of a selfregulatory organization based on the National Association of Securities Dealers as a model. This organization would be subject to limited oversight by a federal agency and would serve as a licensing and information processing group. Companies also see some benefit to deregulating commercial insurance, with an emphasis on having the federal government providing oversight of the process (Lonkevich 4). In 1996, efforts to provide a comprehensive natural disaster insurance bill failed as Congress was unable to agree on key provisions for reform. In 1995, efforts were made to create a federal Natural Disaster Insurance Corporation which would have provided primary insurance and reinsurance coverage, but the plan was a
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