Please solve this Chris and Karen are married and own a three-bedroom home in a large Midwestern city. Theirson, Christian, attends college away from homeand lives in a fraternity house. Their daughter,Kelly, is a senior in high school. Chris is anaccountant who works for a local accountingfirm. Karen is a marketing analyst and is oftenaway from home several days at a time. Kellyearns extra cash by babysitting on a regularbasis. The family's home contains householdfurniture, personal property, a computer thatChris uses to prepare business tax returns onweekends, and a laptop computer that Karenuses while traveling. The Swifts also own threecars. Christian drives a 2000 Ford; Chris drives a2007 Pontiac for both business and personal use;and Karen drives a 2009 Toyota and a rental carwhen she is traveling. Although the Swifts haveowned their home for several years, they areconsidering moving because of the recentincrease in violent crime in their neighborhood.a. Describe briefly the steps in the personal riskmanagement process.b. Identify the major pure risks or pure lossexposures to which Chris and Karen are exposedwith respect to each of the following:1. Personal loss exposures2. Property loss exposures3. Liability loss exposuresc. With respect to each of the loss exposuresmentioned above, identify an appropriatepersonal risk management technique that couldbe used to treat the exposure.

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Chris and Karen are married and own a three- bedroom home in a large Midwestern city. Their son, Christian, attends college away from home and lives in a fraternity house. Their daughter,

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