142: Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company (OMIC) workshop—dissatisfied patients

Author(s):  
Anne M. Menke ◽  
Denise Chamblee
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (108) ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
Beata Mrozowska - Bartkiewicz

A mutual insurance society is one of the basic forms of conducting insurance activity. It is characterized by a very wide range of options which its founders and subsequently entitled members have in order to choose the organizational and systemic model of operation, to change it in the course of business, to define the concept of membership, to create various categories of members and provide them with different rights and duties, to determine the powers of statutory bodies, and, above all, to apply the method of mutuality. The Insurance and Reinsurance Activity Act regulates the basic legal framework of mutual companies, while referring quite a number of issues to the Polish Commercial Partnerships and Companies Code. This does not alter the fundamental principle on which the company's activity is based, namely that its articles of association play an extremely important role, which is much greater than in the case of public limited liability companies, and that members of a mutual insurance society enjoy considerable freedom to conduct business and categorize its members, which is unparalleled for other legal forms of business activity.


Ophthalmology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 127 (7) ◽  
pp. 852-858
Author(s):  
Michael Morley ◽  
Anne M. Menke ◽  
Karen C. Nanji

Author(s):  
William H. Money

This case presents data concerning the choices among information system development strategies, tools, systems which could be selected for upgrade or development, and implementation decisions for an insurance company facing a dynamic business environment.


Author(s):  
Hodgins Peter

This chapter examines takaful (Islamic insurance), which is one of the fastest growing sectors of the global insurance market. Takaful is a form of insurance structured so as to satisfy the requirements of the Shari’a. It is based on the concept of mutuality, whereby each participant (the equivalent of an insured) makes a donation (tabarru) to a takaful fund. In its commercial form, the takaful fund is managed by a takaful operator on behalf of the participants and is therefore similar to a conventional mutual insurance company. However, the concept of takaful is fundamentally distinct from conventional insurance whereby the insurance company sells a policy protecting the insured against certain defined risks for a specified amount of money. Such conventional insurance arrangements involve no element of mutuality. In contrast, takaful is structured on the basis of mutuality and is intended to create an arrangement that is mutually beneficial for both the takaful operator and the participant.


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