The aim of the thesis entitled "Proposal for a method of selecting a suitable non-life insurance product for the protection of a consumers against risk" is to suggest a method that readers can follow when choosing the right non-life insurance product to protect them against risks which could harm them the most, and to help set the most effective the sum insured. The part containing the survey is exposing consumer attitudes toward non-life insurance and their behavior when choosing an insurance product.

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This dissertation explores the implications of natural disaster risk for access to financial services, especially credit. Its results show that disasters can dramatically undermine the ability of financial intermediaries (FIs) to lend after an event, increasing the cost of the disaster and delaying recovery. Moreover, the risk of natural disasters discourages investment in vulnerable regions and economic sectors and so slows economic development. Financial risk transfer mechanisms such as insurance can help maintain lending following an event. While many international development projects have targeted disaster insurance markets to households, managing disaster-related credit risk may be done more effectively through insurance products for FIs. Additionally, prudential supervision and the credit risk rating methods of investors in developing and emerging economies are dominated by developed country standards that overlook natural disaster risks. Public and private interests align in the need to tailor such standards and so enhance the effectiveness with which vulnerable FIs manage disaster risk.

This diploma thesis deals with investment life insurance and its alternatives. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate whether it is more advantageous to use the investment life insurance or individual investing into investment funds together with the purchase of risk life insurance. The evaluation is based on analysis and comparison of specific insurance and investment products. Mutual comparison is performed on an example with the help of products of three particular insurance companies. Based on the author´s findings, the last part of the thesis contains recommendations for clients how to effectively cover the risks as well as increase the value of their finances.

Die vorliegende Arbeit illustriert das Prinzip der Risikoteilung anhand typischer Beispiele von Versicherungsverträgen zwischen Versicherungsnehmer und Versicherungsunternehmen oder zwischen Erstversicherer und Rückversicherer, und sie skizziert einige der mit der Risikoteilung verbundenen mathematischen Probleme. / The present paper illustrates the principle of risk sharing by way of prominent examples of insurance contracts between the policyholder and the insurance company, as well as between the primary insurer and the reinsurer, and it addresses some of the mathematical problems related to risk sharing.

When society fails to effectively integrate natural and constructed environments, one of the cataclysmic byproducts of this disconnect is an increased risk of natural disasters. On top of the devastation that is the aftermath of such disasters, poor planning and engineering decisions have detrimental effects on communities as they attempt to recover and rebuild. While there is an inherent difficulty in the quantification of the cost of human life, interruption in business operations, and damage to the properties, it is critical to develop plans and mitigation strategies to promote fast recovery. Traditionally insurance and reinsurance products have been used as a mitigation strategy for financing post-disaster recovery. However, there are number of problems associated with these models such as lack of liquidity, defaults, long litigation process, etc. In light of these problems, new Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) methods are introduced. The pricing of these risk mitigating instruments, however, has been mostly associated with the hazard frequency and intensity; and little recognition is made of the riskiness of the structure to be indemnified. This study proposes valuation models for catastrophe-linked ART products and insurance contracts in which the risks and value can be linked to the characteristics of the insured portfolio of constructed assets. The results show that the supply side ? structural parameters are as important as the demand ? hazard frequency, and are in a highly nonlinear relationship with financial parameters such as risk premiums and spreads.

The thesis focuses on the Risk Life Insurance of the Czech insurance market offering coverage just for serious health risks without any investment or savings component. Assessment of the Risk Life Insurance offer is based on the findings of the general and special insurance conditions as well as on the gained draft insurance contracts worked on the model setting. The aim of the thesis is the analysis of the main coverage which is in all cases the life insurance along with the offer of the complementary insurance for case of death, disability, cancer or severe diseases. The emphasis is on the scope of risks coverage and the insurance conditions which are considered to be an insurance event.

This thesis deals with evaluation of insurance protection of the municipality of Lešná as well as with the analysis and comparison of proposals of insurance protection property of the municipality offered by other commercial insurance companies. Based on risk analysis and the current status of insurance coverage are proposed steps to make it more efficient by using the current offer of insurance products. This thesis also contains recommendations for choosing an insurer with regard to the ratio of the scope of the offered insurance protection and the amount of the premium.

The dissertation deals with the issue related to the proposal of insurance portfolio for the town of Bzenec. Based on the analysis of risks there has been suggested such an insurance portfolio that is to minimize the most serious risks of the city by the means of a commercial insurance company.

Diploma thesis Business risks in insurance and their quantification describes the business risks to which insurance companies are exposed in their activities. Thesis is focused on market risk and quantification of market risk in insurance companies. It includes determination of the specifications for the activities of insurance companies, regulation and characteric of business risks in insurance. Large part of the thesis deals with the method of Value at Risk as a tool to measure market risk as well as individual methods to calculate it. In the conclusion, thesis describes the processes of quantification of market risk in Generali PPF Holding and in Česká poisťovňa, which gives a practical insight into the issues of market risk in insurance companies.