Environmentally hazardous substance insurance system, computer program product, and business method using insurance certificate regarding environmentally hazardous substance and results of analysis by third party

• US 20050154618A1
• Filed: 12/22/2004
• Published: 07/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Maxell Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Maxell Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kita, Fusaji
• Application Number:
  US11/021,532
• Publication Number:
  US 20050154618A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A system and a computer program product calculates an insurance premium for environmentally hazardous substance insurance to compensate for damages in the case in which an environmentally hazardous substance is included, by accident, in a product of the insured party. The environmentally hazardous substance insurance system includes, as contracted party information relating to the insured party, at least information specifying the environmentally hazardous substance that is to be insured against, an input output process portion to input information relating to the results of analysis of the product of the contracted party; a contracted party information memory portion for at least temporarily recording the contracted party information and an insurance premium calculation portion to calculate the insurance premium based on the contracted party information stored in the contracted party information memory portion.

Claims

1. An environmentally hazardous substance insurance system for calculating an insurance premium of an environmentally hazardous substance insurance to compensate for damages if an environmentally hazardous substance that is to be insured is unintentionally included in a product of an insured party, the environmentally hazardous substance insurance system comprising:

an input portion for inputting at least information specifying the environmentally hazardous substance that is to be insured and information relating to a result of analysis of the product of the insured party, as contracted party information relating to the insured party;

a contracted party information memory portion for at least temporarily recording the contracted party information; and

an insurance premium calculation portion to calculate the insurance premium based on the contracted party information stored in the contracted party information memory portion.

2. The environmentally hazardous substance insurance system according to claim 1,

wherein information relating to variability of results of analysis of the environmentally hazardous substance carried out on a plurality of lots of the insured product, as information relating to the results of analysis of the product of the contracted party is input by the input portion.

3. The environmentally hazardous substance insurance system according to claim 1,

wherein at least one selected from information on trust of the insured party, product sales information, manufacturing country information, sales country information, maximum compensation amount, product risk information, number of types of environmentally hazardous substance that are insured against, degree of risk of the environmentally hazardous substance taken as the object of the insurance and frequency of analysis of the insured product are further input by the input portion, as contracted party information.

4. The environmentally hazardous substance insurance system according to claim 3,

wherein if there is a difference with a pre-renewal value that is equal to or greater than a standard difference as a result of a renewal of information included in the contracted party information, from among product risk information, manufacturing country information, sales country information, the number of types of environmentally hazardous substance that are to be insured against and the degree of risk of the environmentally hazardous substance that is to be insured, then an insurance premium calculation portion recalculates the insurance premium based on the contracted party information after it is renewed.

5. The environmentally hazardous substance insurance system according to claim 1,

wherein information relating to whether a party other than the insured party performs analysis relating to environmental related substances of the product that is to be insured are further input by the input portion, as contracted party information.

6. A computer program product in which a computer program to calculate an insurance premium of an environmentally hazardous substance insurance to compensate damages if an environmentally hazardous substance is included, by an accident, in a product that is to be insured of an insured party, is recorded on a recording medium, the computer program including commands to cause a computer to execute:

a process of inputting at least information specifying an environmental related substance to be insured and information relating to results of analysis of a product of the contracted party, as contracted party information relating to the insured party;

a process of at least temporarily recording the contracted party information, to a contracted party information memory portion, and

a process of calculating the insurance premium based on the contracted party information recorded in the contracted party information memory portion.

7. The computer program product according to claim 6, wherein

information relating to variability of the results of analysis of the environmentally hazardous substance, carried out on a plurality of lots of the product that is to be insured is further input as information relating to the results of analysis of the product of the contracted party.

8. The computer program product according to claim 6,

wherein at least one selected from information on trust of the insured party, product sales information, manufacturing country information, sales country information, maximum compensation amount, product risk information, number of types of environmentally hazardous substance that are insured against, degree of risk of the environmentally hazardous substance taken as the object of the insurance and frequency of analysis of the insured product, are further input as the contracted party information.

9. The computer program product according to claim 8,

wherein if there is a difference with a pre-renewal value that is equal to or greater than a standard difference as a result of a renewal of information included in the contracted party information, from among product risk information, manufacturing country information, sales country information, the number of types of environmentally hazardous substance that are to be insured against and the degree of risk of the environmentally hazardous substance that is to be insured, then the insurance premium calculation portion recalculates the insurance premium based on the contracted party information after the renewal.

10. The computer program product according to claim 6,

wherein information relating to whether a party other than the insured party performs analysis relating to environmental related substances of the product is further input as contracted party information.

11. A business method of a product, wherein, in a sale of the product, a vendor or a manufacturer submits, to a purchaser of the product, a certificate of results of analysis by a third party of at least a plurality of environmentally hazardous substances of a plurality of lots, and at least one of an insurance certificate for insuring that the product does not include at least the plurality of environmentally hazardous substances in terms of design, and an insurance certificate for compensating for a damage in a case where an environmentally hazardous substance is included in the product due to an accident.