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Course Syllabus:  Personal Risk Management and Property-Liability Insurance

Course Title: Department: Instructor:

IRM420 - Personal Risk Management and Property-Liability Insurance Business Administration Steve Thibodeaux, CPCU, CIC, Email | Vita

Course Overview:

This course will give the student an overview in personal risk management and insurance. It will examine Personal Risk Management, Homeowners Property Coverage, Homeowners Property Coverage-Perils, Exclusions and Conditions, Homeowners Liability Coverage, Homeowners Endorsements and Variations, Other Residential Insurance, Personal Auto Insurance: Liability and Medical Payments, Uninsured Motorists and No-Fault, Physical Damage and Endorsements, Insurance for Recreational Vehicles, Watercraft and Excess Liability, Developing Personal Insurance Products, Underwriting Profitability for Personal Insurance, Pricing Personal Insurance Products, Reunderwriting Personal Insurance Portfolios and Gaining Efficiencies in Personal Insurance Operations.

Required Text: Online Bookstore

Personal Risk Management and Property-Liability Insurance-1st Edition; September 2002.
ISBN #: 089463111X
Authors: Karen L. Hamilton, Ph.D., CPCU, CLU, CRM, ARM; Cheryl L. Ferguson, Ed.D., CPCU, AAI, AU, AAM, AIM, API; Mary Ann Cook, CPCU, AU.

The text is available online through Insurance Institute of America; www.aicpcu.org or by contacting The Institutes, 720 Providence Road, P.O. Box 3016, Malvern, PA 19355-0716; 800-644-2101.

Course Overview:
Week 1: Read Chapters 1 & 2 in text. Complete Matching Exercise
Week 2: Read Chapters 3 & 4 in text. Complete Matching Exercise
Week 3: Read Chapters 5 & 6 in text. Complete Matching Exercise
Week 4: Read Chapters 7 & 8 in text. Complete Matching Exercise

Week 5: Review and Mid-Term Exam: True-False covering Chapters 1 through 8.

Week 6: Read Chapters 9 & 10 in text. Complete Matching Exercise
Week 7: Read Chapters 11 & 12 in text. Complete Matching Exercise
Week 8: Read Chapters 13 & 14 in text. Complete Matching Exercise
Week 9: Read Chapters 15 in text. Complete Matching Exercise

Week 10: Review and Final Exam: True-False covering Chapters 9 through 15.

All assignments must be submitted to the instructor no later than 5 PM (CST) on each Sunday of the week.

Grading: 20% of the grade will come from the weekly assignments and 80% from the Mid-term and Final exams, equally.

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The course should take 10 weeks to complete, but must be completed within 12 weeks of an agreed starting date.

The instructor may be contacted by email at: stevet@canyoncollege.edu with any questions, concerns or comments about the course. If a person-to-person conversation is necessary, the student should email the instructor with a time and phone number where the student can be reached.

Academic honesty is highly valued at Canyon College and all work is expected to be done by the student personally.