Richard V. Rupp

Rupp's Insurance & Risk Management Glossary (2nd Edition)

This is the second edition of this book, which includes 1600 new terms and numerous amendments to new terms. The following additional Subject Categories have been added or modified: Accounting, Law, Liability Insurance (replaced casualty insurance), Loss Control (replaced Loss Prevention/Loss Control), Personal Lines, and Professional Liability.

This Second Edition, five years in the making, proved to be more fun and interesting to work on than the First. The reason is that rather than relying principally on the research files I collected over the years, it incorporates suggestions from flesh-and-blood readers.

This book is used by a broad range of individuals, from those who have just entered the business and need a basic lexicon, to seasoned underwriters and risk managers who need a handy reference for unusual or new terms. It is also used as a reference in settling and litigating claim disputes.

Selected Works

Procedural Crime Fiction

Death on the High Seas

This is the second novel in the FBI Special Agent Hartmann series. It seems murder follows him whereever he goes. While enjoying a luxury cruise with his beautiful partner Coleen one of their fellow passengers is brutally murdered. Dick and Coleen's discrete getaway turns into a full-blown FBI investigation. The murdered passenger has ties to the White House, so what would be a standard investigations turns into one that is being closely monitored by the Director of the FBI and the President of the United States. To complicate maters even further, their crime scene will end up sailing away and their suspects and witnesses will scatter to their homes around the world.

In this crime thriller, FBI Special Agent Hartmann in charge of the Bureau's San Francisco's Violent Crime Squad are called into action. He and his elite squad are assigned to investigate a suspicious death at the IRS Service Center in Fresno, where they're soon led into the bowels of the city's largest street gang - the Bulldogs. As the case grabs the attention of the White House, the squad travels to Los Angeles and then to Mexico where they must infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel.

Nonfiction

Rupp's Insurance & Risk Management Glossary (2nd Edition)

A comprehensive reference which defines over 5,600 insurance-related and risk management terms.

Rupp's Insurance & Risk Management Glossary

A comprehensive reference which defines over 4,000 insurance-related and risk management terms.

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