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Property and Liability Insurance Principles, Second Edition, by Barry D. Smith, James S. Trieschmann, Eric A. Wiening, and Anita W. Johnson (Insurance Institute of America, 1994). Any instructor who teaches property and liability insurance as a separate course will find it difficult to choose a suitable textbook. Many instructors use a part of introductory risk management and insurance textbooks that deal with the subject of property and liability insurance. The problem is that the chapter materials for this specific topic are not sufficient enough to cover the entire course. To partially solve this problem, many instructors bring in a considerably large amount of outside information to supplement the inadequate introductory textbooks.
Given such a situation, the title of this book could be eyecatching to some instructors who are looking for a fitting textbook for that course. This book is designed for insurance practitioners to study for one of the three courses in the Program in General Insurance of the Insurance Institute of America, and also to prepare for national examinations in an effort to continue their professional development. The major purpose of this...