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Actuarial Models for Sickness Insurance

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We describe the basic actuarial structure of sickness insurance products, whose main characteristics have been presented in Sect. 3.4. In particular, we focus on insurance products which provide a fixed daily benefit in the case of (short-term) disability.

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Correspondence to Ermanno Pitacco .

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Pitacco, E. (2014). Actuarial Models for Sickness Insurance. In: Health Insurance. EAA Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12235-9_5

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