Available Foundations of Risk Management and Insurance courses are listed below. Click each course name for
information and a list of topics covered. For your convenience, you can take one, a few, or all of the courses. The
choice is yours!
Identifying Risk and Its
Implications
Topics covered in this course include assets exposed to loss; causes of loss, including associated hazards;
financial consequences of loss, as elements for property, liability, personnel, and net income loss exposures; and
more.
Understanding Risk
Management
Topics covered in this course include the differences between traditional and enterprise risk management, the steps
in the risk management process, and more.
Understanding Risk
Assessment
Topics covered in this course include methods of loss exposure identification, types of data used in risk management
decisions, and more.
Risk Control Techniques
Topics covered in this course include risk control techniques, using risk control techniques and measures to
implement effective risk control measures, and more.
Evaluating Risk Financing
Topics covered in this course include retention funding measures, applying risk financing measures to the four types
of loss exposures, and more.
Financial Services and
Insurance Markets
Topics covered in this course include how producers provide consumers with access to insurers, competition in the
insurance market, and more.
Insurance Mechanism
Topics covered in this course include the benefits of insurance, the core and supporting functions performed by
insurers, and more.
Insurable Risks
Topics covered in this course include the insurance mechanism, applying the six characteristics of an ideally
insurable loss exposure, and more.
Legal Environment of
Insurance
Topics covered in this course include the common-law system, civil law in comparison to criminal law, and more.
The Insurance Policy
Topics covered in this course include the distinguishing characteristics of insurance policies, waiver and estoppel,
and more.
Insurance Policy Analysis
Topics covered in this course include the six reasons that policies contain exclusions, the differences between
pre-loss and post-loss policy analysis, and more.
Policy Analysis:
Declarations and Insuring Agreement
Topics covered in this course include policy period and coverage territory provisions, insured events and causes of
loss, and more.
Policy Analysis: Conditions
and Exclusions
Topics covered in this course include property insurance exclusions, liability insurance exclusions, and more.
Amounts Payable: Property
Insurance
Topics covered in this course include deductibles, the coinsurance formula, and more.
Amounts
Payable: Liability Insurance and Other Sources of Recovery
Topics covered in this course include three types of other-insurance provisions, how conflicts are resolved for
other-insurance provisions, and more.
We Recommend These Courses for: Agents/brokers, agency principals, claim adjusters, risk managers,
and underwriters