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The U.S. government is concerned that terrorists might try to crash a vehicle loaded with explosives into a U.S. embassy in a foreign country. Inside the gate to the embassy, they installed steel and cement posts in the road. These posts can be raised up from the ground to form a barrier against suicide bombers. The posts can be lowered back into the ground to allow safe vehicles to pass. This physical barrier system illustrates which risk management technique?

Discount Department Stores is a national retail chain. The company had one large, central warehouse. At the suggestion of the risk manager, the company decided to build four smaller regional warehouses so that a loss at the central warehouse would not be a catastrophic blow to the company’s distribution system. Splitting the inventory between four regional warehouses illustrates which risk management technique?

Which of the following statements regarding insurance and hedging is true?

Laura Evans is risk manager of LMN Company. Laura decided to retain certain property loss exposures. Which of the following is a method that Laura can use to fund the retained property losses?

ABC Insurance Company calculated the amount that it expected to pay in claims for each policy sold. Rather than selling the insurance for the amount it expected to pay in claims, ABC added an allowance to cover the cost of doing business, including commissions, taxes, and acquisition expenses. This allowance is called a(n)

Explain the message in the ‘Love Yourself” song by Khari.

Members of Mid-South Petroleum Distributors, a trade group, had trouble obtaining affordable pollution liability insurance. The members formed a group captive that is exempt from many state laws that apply to other insurers. This group captive is called a(n)

Which of the following statements regarding insurance and hedging is (are) true?I.Insurance involves the transfer of an insurable risk while hedging handles risk that is typically uninsurable.II.Insurance transactions can reduce objective risk, while hedging typically involves only risk transfer and not risk reduction.

Patients with Barrett’s esophagus usually undergo endoscopies to screen for progression to

In postmenopausal women, what symptom should prompt evaluation for malignancy?