Spring 2027

Commercial Insurance

RMI 645 examines the structure, use, benefits, and limitations of corporate insurance products, focusing on the economic underpinning of insurance contracts.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Carl Barlett

Attendance was essential because lectures often diverged from slides. One student noted the lack of a textbook made exams hard to study for, while another found open-note exams manageable if they took good notes rather than copying slides.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and evaluate risk management issues associated with property and liability exposures.

  • Anticipate the types of risks that can be transferred effectively through commercial insurance products.

  • Articulate the reasons why commercial insurance products are frequently constructed as they are.

  • Analyze loss situations and explain why or why not that situation is covered by commercial insurance.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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(R M I 300 or 700) or declared in the Business Exchange program

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RMI 645

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CARL BARLETT is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 550

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Carl Barlett

Carl Barlett taught this course as an engaging, discussion-heavy lecture focused on real-world insurance scenarios. Students found the material useful for understanding policy structures and industry applications.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.52 GPA, 68.8% A/AB (n=64 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.44 GPA, 69.2% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.51 GPA, 67.8% A/AB (n=59 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Carl Barlett

Attendance was essential because lectures often diverged from slides. One student noted the lack of a textbook made exams hard to study for, while another found open-note exams manageable if they took good notes rather than copying slides.

Past student reviews · Carl Barlett

Barlett was highly accessible, offering help via office hours, Zoom, or Slack. Students appreciated his investment in their success, noting that he went to extra lengths to check in and ensure they were doing well.

Topics

  • Economic underpinning of insurance contract structure
  • Commercial property and liability insurance products
  • Application of insurance principles to organizational situations

Skills

  • Identify and evaluate risk management issues for property and liability exposures
  • Anticipate risks transferable via commercial insurance products
  • Explain the structural rationale behind commercial insurance product design
  • Analyze loss situations to determine coverage under commercial insurance

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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RMI 645 · Spring 2027

Commercial Insurance

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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