Sara, a 50-year-old working professional, was in a car accident. She suffered some serious injuries and submitted a claim for permanent partial disability benefits with her insurance company. Her personal physician had already provided detailed documentation. But her insurance company requested her to attend an examination with another doctor, provided by them. This doctor, they said, is an "insurance doctor." Now, this was something new to Sara. But is it a new concept? Let us find out. Who Is an Insurance Doctor? Insurance doctors play a critical role in the insurance sector, which is quite underrated and misunderstood. Most of us assume that they actually replace the role of our treating physicians, but that is not the case. Our physicians treat us in case of any mishap, but they do not assess or evaluate our level of injury or disability. But then, who actually does it? This work is done by Insurance doctors, which, in turn, impacts or affects our insurance benefits. Th...
Understanding ESG and Sustainable Investing: Believe it or not, you often use the two important terms, ESG investing and sustainable investing, interchangeably. But they actually convey two different meanings. Let's clarify what ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) and Sustainable, also called SRI (Sustainable, Responsible, and Impact) investing, convey. Various big investment houses put a lot of effort and funds into publicizing ESG investing and try to judge a company or business' responsibility levels by using ratings based on some numerical data and metrics. They, quite often, do not follow any particular level or quality, because the metrics keep varying from time to time. The essence is that these ratings portray the potential impact of the environment on the business and not vice versa. Now, what do we understand about the difference between them? Overall, the idea behind ESG investing vs. sustainable investing is that ESG focuses more on aligning the fin...