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Natural disasters are extremely destructive power and duration on the planet occur rather rarely, but in this case should build in advance of system protection and response, which includes immediate measures to assist victims by the State, a set of measures on risk management and the full participation of the insurance industry. For this purpose, since the mid-1990s insurance corporations resort to such a form of alternative financing upcoming and possible costs as a transfer of risks to the stock market through the issuance of catastrophe bonds. The article contains an analysis of these bonds.

"We analyze asset-backed commercial paper conduits which played a central role in the early phase of the financial crisis of 2007-09. We document that commercial banks set up conduits to securitize assets while insuring the newly securitized assets using credit guarantees. The credit guarantees were structured to reduce bank capital requirements, while providing recourse to bank balance sheets for outside investors. Consistent with such recourse, we find that banks with more exposure to conduits had lower stock returns at the start of the financial crisis; that during the first year of the crisis, asset-backed commercial paper spreads increased and issuance fell, especially for conduits with weaker credit guarantees and riskier banks; and that losses from conduits mostly remained with banks rather than outside investors. These results suggest that banks used this form of securitization to concentrate, rather than disperse, financial risks in the banking sector while reducing their capital requirements"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance, 11th Edition presents a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the field of insurance while emphasizing the consumer. The new edition first examines the concept of risk, the nature of the insurance device, and the rinciples of risk management. It then discusses the traditional fields of life and health insurance as solutions to the risks connected with the loss of income. Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance, 11th Edition alsodeals with the risks associated with the ownership of property and legal liability.