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Abstracts: 1042 rollover transactions: don't forget to dot your I's and cross your t's. IRA distribution rules
Abstracts: 1983 Insurance Stock Trends. IRS Catch that Mole
Abstracts: 1991 assets for l/h insurers. Leaders by category. Expenses-to-premium ratios of the 100 leading life/health insurers
Abstracts: 1991 lapse ratios on ordinary business. Special revenue bonds fuel 13.2% increase. The top 500
Abstracts: 1991 policyholders' surplus for leading property/casualty insurers. Property/casualty bond holdings
Abstracts: 1994 KPMG survey on health benefits. The impact of the FMLA: results of an employer survey. Changing demographics pose new challenges for benefits planning
Abstracts: 1994 results hold steady with stable losses. Losses surge in 1994 to $16 billion. Workers' compensation shows great strength; 1994 results are boosted by lower losses, reforms
Abstracts: 1995 individual annuity premiums in general and separate accounts. Individual variable annuity policy survey
Abstracts: 1997: a year of profits, mergers and regulation tussles. Getting into management's head. 1992 viewed as critical to overseas expansion
Abstracts: 1998: The Year in Review. California's sports rulings create a legal minefield. Fighting liability suits related to inspections
Abstracts: 20/20 on the year 2020. Conseco Inc. Industry leaders heeding wake up call
Abstracts: 20/20 on the year 2020. Surging market aided policyholders' surplus. Contractors should build loss prevention plans
Abstracts: $2 trillion and counting: in 1995, world insurance premiums broke the US$2 trillion mark. Developing countries emerging as untapped opportunity
Abstracts: ABCs of health care. Hooking up a network. Fair coverage for all
Abstracts: ABCs of health care. Sharing the burden. Corporate changes 1991
Abstracts: A biblical thought for estate agents. How to pool your resources. A flourishing market in London
Abstracts: A brewing crisis: no new producers. To survive, small agencies should upgrade their skills now. Agency leadership takes different forms
Abstracts: Abusing "discrimination" in insurance underwriting. OCC affirms state authority over bank insurance sales. Single insurance license -- a European perspective
Abstracts: A capital question. Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield. Farming out word-processing
Abstracts: Accountants risk adds up to opportunity or disaster. Good news or bad, EMF suits continue; recent reports dismissing connections between electromagnetic fields and health claims are small comfort to defendants and their insurers
Abstracts: A changing view of health care benefits. The case for consumerism in healthcare. Health savings accounts: a new model emerges.
Abstracts: Achieving a diversified portfolio: avoiding the illusions that sabotage many amateur investors. Ready to fire your pension fund manager? Read this first
Abstracts: Achieving immortality on the installment plan. Don't invite the tax man to estate settlements. Nonqualified planning: an emerging market
Abstracts: Actuarial malpractice lawsuits are not preempted by ERISA. Diagnostic-related group rates preempted by ERISA. Failure to give rollover notice not recoverable under ERISA
Abstracts: A dangerous confusion. Perfect together. Winner take all
Abstracts: Adaptability, flexibility keys to future success: the information highway is littered with the remains of those who didn't make it. To avoid this fate, the industry must adapt to new ways
Abstracts: Adaptability, flexibility keys to future success: the information highway is littered with the remains of those who didn't make it. To avoid this fate, the industry must adapt to new ways. part 2
Abstracts: ADA raises new compliance issues for benefit plans. How courts view experimental medical procedures. Is there an alternative to COBRA compliance?
Abstracts: Aetna introduces policy for food and beverage wholesalers. St. Paul Fire & Marine offers package program for museums
Abstracts: A flourishing market in London. An Englishman's home is...very traditional. Now, before you head for the 18th hole
Abstracts: A force to be reckoned with: the question isn't about leveling the playing field with banks, it's whether banks are growing so rapidly they'll even remain in the same league as insurers
Abstracts: A fresh look at the practical aspects of redesigning human resources delivery systems. Executive compensation: do shareholders get their money's worth?
Abstracts: After 40 years of wandering, 403(B) rules changed. Retirement plan compliance and you. IRS announces new voluntary compliance program
Abstracts: Agency growth continues, but problems remain. Survey shows key role CSRs play in agencies. Location top ingredient in a good business mix
Abstracts: Agency mergers become a matter of survival. What the best salespeople do. Carriers are pitching hit ratios to agents
Abstracts: Agents, carriers and employers benefit from purchasing coalitions. Managed care tries to improve bad reviews
Abstracts: Agents must adjust as carriers change ways. Insurers' ads shift focus 'Back to Basics.' (Life & Health Insurance Foundation for Education)
Abstracts: Agents must update selling strategies. Present policyholders are the best resource: other retail financial institutions are using marketing skills to sell insurance, forcing insurers to better focus on existing customers
Abstracts: A growing global powerhouse: Bermuda has evolved into a world center of insurance and reinsurance. Reinsurance broker's role expands to risk manager
Abstracts: A growing headache: covering other insureds. Banks offer their own opportunities; banks want to make money in insurance, not supplant agents, some find
Abstracts: A guide to customizing managed care. Cost-effective treatment for mental health. Medical savings accounts
Abstracts: A health care treatment. ITT Hartford-AARP: cross sale of the year? Health care flexible spending arrangements
Abstracts: AIDS-related claim survey results. Life sales struggle in competitive market. Flexible-premium annuity policy survey
Abstracts: Alliances with a twist. Everything old is fraudulent again: one author's research into two centuries of fraud shows some old twists to new scams
Abstracts: Allianz, AXA take big steps toward penetrating China. Familiarity doesn't always breed contentment. Underwriting factors key in overseas expansion
Abstracts: All Quiet on the Term Front. Participating Whole Life Policy Comparison. Indeterminate Premium Annual Renewable Term Policy Comparison
Abstracts: A Look at Demutualization. New-look GICs. Taking Stock of Demutualization
Abstracts: A look at ratings trends. Decision time is running out. Shakeouts don't happen overnight
Abstracts: ALTA concludes a successful 1995, gears up financially for 1996. 1992 dues increase
Abstracts: ALTA position regarding revised RESPA regulations. Bayard Waterbury - ALTA's recruiting champion. President Oliver responds to questions as he begins a challenging year for ALTA
Abstracts: Alternative medicine: can it complement your benefit plan? Should your company use travel per diems? Should you implement a paid time-off plan?
Abstracts: Alternative medicine moves into the mainstream. Tilting at managed care. Insurer-managed care cultures clash in rush to compete
Abstracts: A market in narrow straits. Choosing the right mutual fund. Strategies for real estate investment
Abstracts: A matter of perspective. A second wind stirs for tort reform. An elder statesman moves on
Abstracts: A mature group, led by large well-known companies. How to analyze a life insurer. How the industry operates
Abstracts: A.M. Best improves rating structure for 1992. NAIC embraces push for reform with accreditation plan review. NAIC holds first open budget meeting
Abstracts: American Council of Life Insurance. Changing Pockets. Whole Life: Albatross or Eagle
Abstracts: America's retirement planning and awareness gap. What goes around, comes around - the resurrection of stock appreciation rights
Abstracts: An accelerated recovery? A marketspace of one's own. Germany's market leaders surge farther ahead
Abstracts: Analysts Share Dim View of Industry. The art of crisis management. Recruiting the new breed of insurances CEOs
Abstracts: Anarchy in the Monarchy. NAIC data collection puts insurers at risk. Fending off the feds
Abstracts: Anatomy of a rate renewal. Managing prescription drug costs. How to choose the best vendor for processing claims
Abstracts: An economically viable model for insurers to demutualize. The price of regulation: Japan's huge insurance market has long remained closed to outsiders but at a high cost
Abstracts: A new brand of leadership. Bullish about the future. Incongruous lapse-supported product
Abstracts: A new brand of leadership. Do life insurers overmanage assets? How safe are the investment practices of life insurers?
Abstracts: A new course for reinsurers; companies that react to the trends taking hold in the reinsurance industry can reap the rewards of a stronger and more efficient marketplace
Abstracts: A new course for reinsurers; companies that react to the trends taking hold in the reinsurance industry can reap the rewards of a stronger and more efficient marketplace. part 2
Abstracts: A new direction for the life industry. Genetic testing creates opportunities, challenges. It's time to reengineer the regulatory system
Abstracts: A new era in benefits management. Reducing the cost of disability benefits. Communicating bad news in benefits
Abstracts: A new game requires new technology team. Insurers must change to compete in the future
Abstracts: A new perspective on cash flow underwriting and investment income levels. Another look at "easy-to-read" policies
Abstracts: A new technique for monitoring utilization review performance. ERISA preemption applies to utilization review decisions
Abstracts: A new twist in the variable annuity market. The impact of the recession. Variable survivorship life: bull market enhances appeal of policies
Abstracts: A new way to deliver products: by reengineering their distribution channels, insurers can gain a marketing advantage in an increasingly costly and competitive aspect of the business
Abstracts: An industry under pressure. S&P credit market services view. How the industry operates
Abstracts: An Intermediary's View of the Reinsurance Market. Captives as a comp cure. Reinsurance at the Crossroads
Abstracts: An Intermediary's View of the Reinsurance Market. Insurers warned of diminishing reinsurance capacity. A coverage for all seasons; facultative's ability to adapt to changes in the reinsurance environment ensures it a permanent place in the market
Abstracts: An introduction to insurance applications on the World Wide Web. Privacy and insurance web transactions
Abstracts: Annual renewable term comparison. Variable annuities survey: spectacular results fuel premium growth. Universal life insurance five-year historical performance survey
Abstracts: Answering back: Anderson's critics deliver mixed reviews. No claims, no glory. A matter of perspective
Abstracts: Anticipation: waiting for the RTC and the FDIC to resolve the junior lien rights problems. Taming a gorilla
Abstracts: An underground flood? Tracking product liability in corporate acquisitions. Have courts redefined advertising liability?
Abstracts: Any willing provider is deceptive medicine. A call to arms. Health care facing step-by-step changes
Abstracts: Any willing provider laws threaten to sink managed care. Managed care faces stinging backlash. The Medicare battle is one of many
Abstracts: Apartheid's effects linger in South African market. Daunting obstacles confront insurers in China. U.S. insurers lag behind in global race for business
Abstracts: A peek into insurance's online future. Read all about it to avoid trouble. As America changes, so does the insurance workforce
Abstracts: A policy to recover. Can we talk? Time to capitalize on restructuring
Abstracts: Appeal of outsourcing grows as competition intensifies. Farming out word-processing
Abstracts: Appeals court adopts IRS 20 percent rule for determining partial plan terminations. A crisis of confidence
Abstracts: Apportionment of layered property coverage expenses. Hurricane modeling and the Florida Commission. The proposed federal earthquake insurance program: is it viable?
Abstracts: A practical look at ERISA's fiduciary duty rules. Using claims-based data to develop a practical diabetes patient care program
Abstracts: A quiet hurricane. Defending risk selection. Spin-offs: the latest divestiture fad
Abstracts: Are electronic forms available for business? California regulator sets layoffs, changes. Associations must span agent generation gap
Abstracts: A rising tide lifts all. Struggling to find a common voice. Privatizing crop coverage opens insurance market
Abstracts: Artificial intelligence helps boost Australian profits. Sick-building litigation raises stake for insurers. Managed care mysteries haunting workers' comp
Abstracts: As America changes, so does the insurance workforce. Dividing the information highway. Spouse program could aid agent retention problems
Abstracts: A serious distortion? Product suitability looms as market conduct hurdle. Demographic changes open new markets for insurers
Abstracts: A skills test for workers' comp. Avoiding risk. Starting over in workers' comp
Abstracts: A slight recovery in accident & health. A&H underwriting loss more than doubled, again. Underwriting losses improve unexpectedly
Abstracts: A spectacular year that won't be repeated. Coping with turmoil in the Korean life market. Best's insolvency study: life/health insurers 1976-1991
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