EBK CONTEMPORARY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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ISBN: 9781337514835
Author: MOYER
Publisher: CENGAGE LEARNING - CONSIGNMENT
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Chapter 11, Problem 8QTD
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To discuss: The reason why numerous people and organizations buy insurance policies.
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James stilton is the chiel executive officer (CEO) of RightLiving, Inc., a company that buys life insurance policies at a discount from terminally ill person and sells the policies to investors. RightLiving pays the terminally ill patients a percentage of the future dealth benefits. he patient receives the cash to use for medical and other expenses, and the investors are "gauranteed" a postive return on thier investtment. The diffrence between the purchase and sale prices is RightLiving's profit.
Stilton is aware that some sick patients may obatin insurance policies through fraud (by not rvealing thier illness on the insurance appolication). An insurance company that discovers such fraud will cancel the policy and refuse to pay. Stilton bellieves that most of the policies he has purchased are ligitmate, but he knows that some are probly not.
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Would a person who aheres to the principles of rights consider it ethical for Stilton not to disclose the potential risk of…
How would the quick ratio be affected by a prepayment of $30,000 for fire and liability insurance?
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The quick ratio would decrease.
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The quick ratio would increase.
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The quick ratio would not change.
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The effect cannot be determined from the information given.
In the context of the health insurance and the life insurance, choose the sentence that IS NOT CORRECT: *
The deductible in a health insurance is an amount of money the insured must pay before benefits become payable by the insurance company.
When we buy a health insurance, we should make sure that we have enough insurance (the opportunity cost of not being adequately insured can be extremely high), but without wasting money by overinsuring
Group Health Insurance (most of them being employer sponsored) represents a small percentage (around 5%) of all health insurance issued by health and life insurance companies.
In a life insurance, a person purchases a policy by paying a premium and the insurance company promises to pay a sum of money at the time of the policyholder’s death to the designated beneficiary.
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