Etti Baranoff, an associate profess...

Etti Baranoff, an associate professor of finance and insurance at the educate of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University, has exhausted the past eight years teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in finance, risk and insurance, and employee benefits. Her latest effort is a volume Risk Management and Insurance, written as an introductory thesis for college students.

"People looking at insurance or working in insurance are exceedingly much confined to a specific, little area," she said. "In many other textbook they bound right into discussion of specific coverages. on the other hand I find that very limiting."

So in creating the textbook Baranoff wanted to existing ...