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Abstracts: Task Effects on Decision Quality in Traveling Salesperson Problems. The Influence of Own and Other Outcome on Satisfaction and Choice of Task Difficulty
Abstracts: Tax consequences of employer payment of club dues and spousal travel. How employers may get relief from health care costs
Abstracts: Tax-exempts' retirement plans analysis: fund management and compliance review for 403(b) retirement plans. 1997 retirement benefits survey: plans changing, employees more aggressive investors
Abstracts: Tax relief benefits seniors. Preserving the family business: a family limited partnership can help heirs maintain control of the business without the advantages of a trust
Abstracts: Team concept successful if managed carefully. Industry must shatter merger management myths. To increase productivity rebuild in-house counsel
Abstracts: Technological challenges face insurers abroad. Reinsurers can get burned in rush to managed care
Abstracts: Technology is vital to good underwriting; underwriters are using technology in imaginative ways, but there is always room for some improvement
Abstracts: Technology: knowing the customer. Strategies can control multiplying ADA lawsuits. One flew over the workplace
Abstracts: Technology to go. Melting in the hands of M&M. Melting in the hands of M&M: Johnson & Higgins joins the Marsh & McLennan fold, creating the world's largest insurance brokerage
Abstracts: Tel Aviv. Digging for gold in claims departments. Economic factors in property/casualty insurance claims costs
Abstracts: Telephone service sells: a salaried sales force might be an agent's nightmare but it is a consumer's dream. The learning connection
Abstracts: Term insurance policy comparison. Whole life policy survey
Abstracts: Term insurance survey. Teaching method offers lessons in "real life."(teaching life insurance) New web site educates public on insurance needs
Abstracts: The 105th Congress: mandates ahead. Retirement security focus on women, small businesses. Will 1995 finally be the year for pension simplification?
Abstracts: The 1992 congressional redistricting and its effect on the title industry. Power through political action
Abstracts: The Accuracy of Leadership Ratings: A Cognitive Categorization Perspective. The Performance Feedback Process: A Preliminary Model
Abstracts: The Americans with Disabilities Act and Workers Compensation. Maybe workers comp is the problem
Abstracts: The art of crisis management. Bringing down the house. Data warehousing speeds decision-making process
Abstracts: The auto battle goes national. State spending: the price of regulation plateaus. The workplace is the next battle ground
Abstracts: The beginnings of "real time" incentive design. Domestic partner benefits: San Francisco & beyond. Making pay for performance work in the 1990s
Abstracts: The biggest catastrophe: not uniting. Use people skills to develop good underwriting relationships. Underwriting for the 21st century: the insurance industry cannot address high-tech risk in a low-tech fashion
Abstracts: The CASE advantage. Good support can enhance work injury claims management. Put some P/C into your practice
Abstracts: The case for 401(k) plan participants of investing in stock indices instead of individual stocks or managed funds
Abstracts: The Chicken Little syndrome or catastrophe modeling - an agent's perspective. The impact of consolidation and vertical integration in the reinsurance industry
Abstracts: The compact solution: as the shortcomings of the current insurance guaranty-fund system become less acceptable, adopting an interstate compact may be the only alternative to federal intervention
Abstracts: The Consumer Bill of Rights. How will health insurance reform affect employees and employers in the future? Will ERISA block substantive health reform?
Abstracts: The consumer-driven approach: what works, what doesn't. Maximizing shareholder value through stock options: a two-pronged approach for minimizing stock option expense and maximizing employee productivity
Abstracts: The dangers of deregulation. Using deregulation to recharge the organization. Japanese step out cautiously down road to deregulation
Abstracts: The dangers of insurance application forms. The "hard" facts about the "soft" market. Insurance internships are needed - for faculty members
Abstracts: The dwindling job market. Traditional carriers wooing public entities again. Industry keeping lid on career opportunities
Abstracts: The economic impact of employee health and fitness programs. Cafeteria plans and bonus/waiver arrangements
Abstracts: The effects of stock ownership on employee attitudes and behavior: evidence from the rewards of work studies. Promises to keep: Aligning employee behavior and the corporate brand
Abstracts: The effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on automobile insurance. The Nature and Characteristics of Insurance Agent Fraud
Abstracts: The e-tailing of health benefit plans. Managing the health care benefits investment. Expatriate health care: benefits without boundaries
Abstracts: The ethics of insurance agents vs. insurance students: the educational implications. Locating and analyzing international insurance company information
Abstracts: The fiduciary duty to disclose plan amendments under serious consideration. Proposed 401(k) contribution deposit schedule adds costs and complexities
Abstracts: The fiduciary duty to disclose plan amendments under serious consideration. part 2 Rewards for team contributions to quality
Abstracts: The future of retiree health care benefits. Employer strategies for compliance with HIPAA's privacy rules. View from Washington. Medicare managed care: a critical crossroad
Abstracts: The future of the agent. Nissan Mutual falls, Japan's first in 50 years. Sales managers can turn agents into sales experts
Abstracts: The future of the agent. Will technology change agents' and brokers' roles? Limited partnerships keep it all in the family
Abstracts: The GREITtm Plan: deferred compensation with income and estate tax savings. "Regulatory frenzy" - employee welfare benefit fund
Abstracts: The growth in health care plans offering choice. New guidance clarifies 409A's application to separation pay arrangements
Abstracts: The Health Care Cost Epidemic. Can insurers survive the 401(k) shakeout? Insurers Fight for Cost Containment
Abstracts: The hidden savings in expensive procedures. Passage of health care bill provokes new coverage battles. Mapping out hot spots in health insurance
Abstracts: The human resources professionals' guide to financial statements. The hunker-down option: battlefield strategies
Abstracts: The IBM decision: a legitimate threat to cash balance? A fond farewell to split-dollar life insurance arrangements
Abstracts: The ideal organizational structure for compensation. Pay dilemna of lateral transfers. Defining the role of quality
Abstracts: The imaging advantage. What are the advantages of implementing E-mail? Benchmark calculator can add up to success
Abstracts: The impact of catastrophic perils over the decades. Specialty markets confront new liability issues. The Florida involuntary market facilities: solution or illusion?
Abstracts: The importance of assessing local compliance for a global stock plan. Successful selection of a stock plan administrator
Abstracts: The Internet may be wonderful - but....: giving the Internet what it lacks: security, reliability, manageability through extranet technology
Abstracts: The Internet may be wonderful - but.... The Net has resources for underwriters, too. Selling personal lines insurance on the Internet
Abstracts: The learning connection. Columbia Universal Life. Winning combinations
Abstracts: The legislative minefield. Annuity policies for attorneys' fees result in income recognition. Exclusive agents join the battle
Abstracts: The legislative process: a primer. Around the track and through the woods with HSASs. Future in the balance: cash balance plans
Abstracts: The long road back. Adding value. Helping insureds cope
Abstracts: The minority challenge. Raising the crossbar. 1992 viewed as critical to overseas expansion
Abstracts: The missing step. Motivating high-tech workers. Clearing the air on indoor pollution
Abstracts: The missing step. Ways to manage diversity. Eastern Europe beckons
Abstracts: The Multifamily Mortgage Foreclosure Act proves effective.... But raises two major issues
Abstracts: The NAIC model acts: a good beginning. NAIC: sharpening the focus on the title industry. Some economic good news on the horizon for title insurers
Abstracts: The never-ending search for assets. Switch to Plan B; new hope for those with AIDS has viatical-settlement companies targeting other terminal illnesses and repositioning their product as an estate-planning tool
Abstracts: The new compensation agenda. Designing incentives to support business reengineering. Don't evaluate performance - manage it
Abstracts: The new era in catastrophe claims: a reinsurer's perspective. Sorry boss - the cycle did it!
Abstracts: The new tax reform debate. Tax reform gains attention. Increased access to pension assets surprise entry in budget reconciliation debate
Abstracts: The new technology wave. Image systems expand beyond service. On the cutting edge of service
Abstracts: The objective is the object. High-tech cure is at hand for Internet insecurities. Groupware is more than just glorified E-mail
Abstracts: The origins of the problem. Bond portfolios beefed up in 1994. Under pressure, but under control
Abstracts: The other side speaks. Taking the test and wondering why. One world, many strategies
Abstracts: The outlook for corporate-sponsored child care. Crisis counseling can minimize employee trauma. Get off the broadband wagon
Abstracts: The outlook for corporate-sponsored child care. Investment education: teaching plan participants to buy low and sell high
Abstracts: The price of regulation. Compromise gives way to war as Leach pulls bank-insurance. Sea change ahead for Japan
Abstracts: The price of regulation: Japan's huge insurance market has long remained closed to outsiders but at a high cost
Abstracts: The Pricing Structure for Today's Life Products. Affirmative Action, Negative Reaction? Some Moderating Conditions
Abstracts: The prognosis for med mal writers. The malpractice shakeup continues: medical malpractice insurers battle managed care, each other to hold market
Abstracts: The right way to select a managed care company. Managed indemnity health insurance. State legislative mandates for health benefits
Abstracts: The riptide with self-funded medical plans and HMOs. The new IRS group term life coverage tax table and how to use it
Abstracts: The risks of not having a health and welfare plan document. New regulations enable employers to discard unwanted forms of retirement benefits
Abstracts: The role of company stock in a defined contribution plan. The less than perfect defined contribution plan. Equity binge results in 'overhang' hangover
Abstracts: The role of compensation in planning quality improvement. Unleash the power of teams with tailored pay. From bonuses to total rewards: thawing the big freeze
Abstracts: The role of employee financial planning in an integrated financial security model. Design of paid-time-off banking
Abstracts: The Role of Modeling Processes in the 'Knee Deep in the Big Muddy' Phenomenon. Group versus Individual Decision Making: An Investigation of Performance Measures, Decision Strategies, and Process Losses/Gains
Abstracts: The SERP exchange: a win-win compensation and benefits strategy. New COLI, HSA, and post-retirement needs
Abstracts: The smart system for protecting property. Lead liability claims raise coverage concerns. Focus on the facts in your investigations
Abstracts: The states vs. Washington. Opportunities abound for insurers in tax-sheltered annuities market. Industry needs to view physicians as partners
Abstracts: The stock option repricing dilemma. Investment compliance: you can't handle the truth! SEC measure should lead to reassessment of insider trading practices and procedures
Abstracts: The system misfired. Headlights on for safety. Rooting out quacks
Abstracts: The three E's - estoppel, evidence and Elvis. Paula Jones, President Clinton and the duty to defend. Infringing on AIL policies
Abstracts: The time is right for mutual insurance holding companies. Banks and the insurance industry. The continuing education paperwork jungle
Abstracts: The title industry -- a parental view. Title insurance in 2000 - two cautionary tales. Outlook promising for arbitration of title insurance disputes
Abstracts: The top 250. Overview of international insurance. Leading P/C insurers by policyholders' surplus 1986-1990
Abstracts: The toughest call. Rep. Dingell introduces solvency regulation bill. Two-tier regulation: fueling the fire
Abstracts: The Trade Center bombing: relearning old lessons. Building codes help weather the storms. Safety first for Santa Claus; underwriting update
Abstracts: The urge to merge. Disaster planning for agents. Agents veto national survey; PIA annual meeting
Abstracts: The Use of Value Added. Accentuating the Positive. Agency acquisition: the value of amortizing expiration lists
Abstracts: The waking bear: the revolution in Russian insurance is just beginning. Global outlook
Abstracts: The whole world's watching- are we? Pension reform: real change or more politics. Ready or not? Big changes in pension plan contribution and disclosure requirements are coming
Abstracts: The year of the cats. Auto hauls the industry's burdens. Hurricane Andrew: a postmortem
Abstracts: The year of the consumer. Making correct assumptions
Abstracts: Three steps that can improve the industry's image. A fickle court of public opinion. Industry should promote its public service role
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