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Insurance Continuing Education California – Disability Insurance

Early Approaches to DI Coverage

 

Students of insurance will detect in its origins an approach to the risks and hazards of daily living that is both compassionate and practical. Early communities of independent artisans, mariners and others gave willingly to funds that would support them and their families when injury or sickness left them unable to work. They were motivated not only by compassion for the devastated lives of their neighbors, but also by the practical matter of safeguarding their own vulnerability to fate’s caprice. Protection against the capricious “loss of work” or “loss of income” is, of course, the basis for disability income insurance.

 

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Establishing a Sustainable Humanities and Social Sciences Research and Resource Web Portal for the Dillard U. Center for Teaching&Learning;

What is a Web Portal? Web portals serve as powerful tools to help organizations improve their collaborative activities. They facilitate knowledge acquisition, sharing and discovery of publishing documents, sharing ideas, working collaboratively and storing information and knowledge in easily searchable repositories (Jones, Provost, Pascale, 2006). Web portals can also be described as a single, personalized interface through which users access all information resources and services in a secure, consistent and customizable manner (Bajec, 2005).

Five steps in managing knowledge (via web portals) are to:

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