A Principled Approach Toward Insurance Law: The Economics of Insurance and the Current Restatement Project

The American Law Institute ( ALI ) initiated a project in 2010 to propose the Principles of the Law of Liability Insurance ( Principles ). A Principles project by the ALI is different from a Restatement of Law, for which the ALI is better known. A Restatement seeks to restate the common law of the fifty U.S. jurisdictions in systematized form. The ALI was organized many decades ago to achieve this ambition, in particular to counter the criticism that varying common law principles in the many different states in the U.S. made the law confused and contradictory across the states. The ALI has been successful and has published many volumes of Restatements over the succeeding years, generally disproving this point. A Principles project of the ALI is different. A Principles project proposes to state the law as it should be, presumably as discussion material or talking points for lawyers and academics to address over some time in the future

A guide to understanding employee benefits : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)

In response to the growing competitiveness in today's workforce, employee benefits have become a greater part of employee compensation and recruiting practices. Employee benefits include all benefits and services, other than wages for time worked, that employees receive from their employers. Employee benefits include health insurance, retirement plans, disability income insurance, life insurance, dental insurance, and other forms of payments and services such as bonuses and personal time off. Because of the growing importance of employee benefits, it is important for employees to understand what benefits they are offered, how the benefits work, and where their money is going. In response to this need, I give brief descriptions of the most accepted benefits. Following the descriptions, I discuss and analyze an employee benefit plan offered by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. The analysis gives a real life example of plans seen by thousands of employees and offers further understanding of employee benefit plans.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg