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Abstracts: Three strategies help attack liability perils. If you can't pay the fine, don't do ... : insurance companies can reduce exposure of criminal prosecution by developing and using a compliance program
Abstracts: Three trusts benefit wealthy, older clients. Consumption tax proposals can alter future of insurance. Life insurance makes charitable gifts grow
Abstracts: Time and material: adjusting the terms. Containing toxic risks. A sound network for communications
Abstracts: Time and material: adjusting the terms. Time to act. Illinois Exchange: A market pillar
Abstracts: Time to Promote an Insurance Agenda. Comp settlements bill remains stuck in Congress. Good intentions, bad policy
Abstracts: Timing isn't everything. All the right moves. Tackling those college bills
Abstracts: Title EDI goes video. Major realtors target title business entry. Improving title employee understanding of land descriptions through video
Abstracts: Title insurer cannot subrogate to rights of prior lienholders. Health insurer's "blue" status not jeopardized by conversion
Abstracts: Today's managed care market: benchmark results for medical care guidelines, part II. Today's managed care market: utilizing quantitative data to understand asthma treatment patterns
Abstracts: Today's managed care market: examining the effectiveness of the "gatekeeper" mechanism. Evaluating health plan efficiency
Abstracts: Today's managed care market. Identifying and eliminating lifestyle-related medical costs. Managed care network quality: employer action plans
Abstracts: Today's managed care market. Today's managed care market: characteristics needed for vertically integrated health systems to deliver efficient medical services
Abstracts: Today's pension retirement plan leaves much for concern. Formal plan documents control over SPD. No breach of fiduciary where plan had substantial surplus
Abstracts: To forgive may be human after all: new IRS program encourages self-correction. IRS issues new guidance regarding plan loans
Abstracts: Tokyo. Weighing the costs of standards. The 24-hour coverage dilemma
Abstracts: Tools bring together carriers and agents. Successful MGAs offer added value to carriers. Investing premium money can be a risky business
Abstracts: Top 500 life/health insurers by net premiums written. Shifting to high gear. Company clears hurdles to cope with regulations
Abstracts: Top companies control the lion's share of premiums. How the industry operates. Strong underwriting and lack of catastrophes bolster insurers' profits
Abstracts: Top companies control the lion's share of premiums. Industry trends. How the industry operates
Abstracts: To segment the market, customize. Accounts receivable insurance discovers America. How to make change work for you, not against you
Abstracts: Tossing out the pink slips. Homeowners insurance: doing well by doing good
Abstracts: Tossing out tradition. Turmoil at Lloyd's. Does no-fault stack up?
Abstracts: "Total compensation" plan design: reexamining stock options: how FASB's vote has affected the value of stock options
Abstracts: Tracking an insurance turnaround in Argentina. A planning nightmare: conflicts of interest. Accountants face risks doing estate planning
Abstracts: Tracking the disability market. States take aggressive stance on compliance with new healthcare laws and regulations
Abstracts: Tracking the path of products. Toward a secure retirement. Keeping the faith on annuities
Abstracts: Train all employees to solve ethical dilemmas. Caught in the middle. Spouse program could aid agent retention problems
Abstracts: Translating the risk. Paint a complete health picture. Keeping up the flow: in 1996, the life insurance industry's lapse ratio fell to lows not seen for two decades
Abstracts: Tried-and-true paths to college funding. Avoid U.S. estate taxes with life insurance. Protect settlement pie from quickly withering
Abstracts: Turmoil at Lloyd's. Smaller but stronger? Migrating Eastward
Abstracts: Turning ambivalence into commitment. Professional directions: outplacement services, taxability, and the human resources professional
Abstracts: "Twenty-four-hour coverage": integration of workers' compensation and disability benefit management. Increased popularity of stock options generates new ideas
Abstracts: Two's a crowd. Off-the-shelf software makes industry inroads. Agents' favorite software
Abstracts: Uncertain futures. Making the Mexican connection. Rehabilitation or hospice care?
Abstracts: Undervaluation can lead to future IRS challenge. Consider taxes, cash flow in funded retirement plan; when owners of closely held businesses want to retire and need a stream of income, they should consider three funding approaches
Abstracts: Underwater options: strategies under the new accounting rules. Changes in work/family status and their impact on changes of coverage
Abstracts: Underwriters should go "site-seeing" on Internet. CEOs express skepticism about selling on the Internet. Tap the Internet's endless supply of information
Abstracts: Underwriters should go "site-seeing" on Internet. High-tech cure is at hand for Internet insecurities. Computers help cut reliance on technology consultants
Abstracts: Underwriting losses mar fire and allied results. Hard work. Inland marine profits from strong underwriting
Abstracts: Underwriting losses took a steep downturn. Insurers improved asset mix in 1995. Lack of revenue growth yields modest gain
Abstracts: Underwriting profits dip for surety and fidelity. Lower claims boosted 1995 underwriting profits. Underwriting losses persisted in 1994
Abstracts: Underwriting resurgence yields rare profit. Inland marine study: underwriting losses continue in 1994. Underwriting losses persisted in 1994
Abstracts: Underwriting the millennium. What am I bid? Knowledge helps agents achieve competitive edge
Abstracts: Underwriting update - no pain, no claim? Easing the strain of back injuries. Will the ADA disable workers' compensation?
Abstracts: Underwriting update - no pain, no claim? Extinguishing claims from passive smokers. Warding off claims of sexual harassment
Abstracts: Universal life five-year history. 10-year dividend comparisons. 20-year dividend comparisons
Abstracts: Universal life policy survey
Abstracts: Universal life policy survey. Individual and group annuities in 1991. Variable annuity premiums - 1990
Abstracts: Universal life policy survey. Universal life, whole life and term sales results - 1991
Abstracts: Update on Group Disability Insurance: What Benefits Managers and HR Professionals Need to Know. Managing HR across international borders
Abstracts: Up-front premiums - do you understand them? Distribution is key to establishing business in Russia. Don't let cash values in clients' policies dry up
Abstracts: Up-front premiums - do you understand them? Sharing health data keeps client relations in shape. New distribution methods entail some drawbacks; selling annuities through nontraditional distribution systems has boosted sales, but at the price of forgoing customer relationships
Abstracts: Use strategic partnerships to increase selling options. Taking the measure of Lloyd's. Aging baby boomers are an untapped market
Abstracts: U.S. health care - more competition or more regulation. Key benefits issues awaiting the 103rd Congress. Health care reform unlikely this year
Abstracts: Using claims data to improve underwriting. Claims management cuts environmental loss costs. Filling Ben Franklin's shoes: new CEO of The Contributionship discusses career, industry
Abstracts: Using deferred stock options to maximize the value of an executive compensation package. Guide to executive compensation disclosure rules
Abstracts: Using incentive compensation to create shareholder value. Pay executives for their real performance. Linking quality with employee rewards: an evolutionary tale of a Baldrige Award winner
Abstracts: Using outside counsel cost-effectively. Smaller insurers take on the big guys. Insurers and lawyers unified on mediation
Abstracts: Using "sensitivity analysis" to determine sharing in incentive plans. Recognition award programs
Abstracts: Using split dollar can solve estate planning problems. Level commissions can affect underwriting. World of underwriting continues to evolve
Abstracts: Using technology to connect compensation with performance management. EEOC provides guidance on compensation discrimination
Abstracts: U.S. workers feel pride in jobs, organizations, but don't trust managers. Employee compensation: what gets rewarded is what gets done
Abstracts: Variable annuities hold their luster. A new way to loosen equity: companies hope to spur the reverse-mortgage market by offering immediate annuities
Abstracts: Variable annuities: to buy or not to buy. The road to success is paved with good habits. Reduce the risk in multifund selection
Abstracts: Variable universal life variable life: cost of insurance. Flexible premium retirement annuity histories. Riders can benefit both agent and prospect
Abstracts: Veterans' reemployment rights legislation enacted. Pension simplification becomes a reality. Hybrid pension plans: a solution for some employers
Abstracts: Voluntary benefits: bridging the gap. New approach to salary increases can bring vitality to pay-for-performance
Abstracts: Voluntary employee beneficiary associations. CHIP and employee premium assistance programs: issues for employers to consider
Abstracts: Warning: hazard warnings may be an unsafe defense. Sprinklers pass the riot test. The perils and pitfalls of certificates of insurance
Abstracts: Warning: insurers may get smoked! Are point-of-sale systems the way of the future? Hamstrung adjusters need better ways to stop fraud
Abstracts: Weather insurance: blue skies ahead. Selling good fortune. Setting the standard
Abstracts: Welfare benefits. Mid-year elections under IRS cafeteria plans regulations. Employer liability under bipartisan patient protection act
Abstracts: What companies are doing about child care. Cash for Tips. Firehawks: Help for the Child Arsonist
Abstracts: What insurers should do about uninsured hazards. Loss managers can learn from their own mistakes. Reducing the risk with a second opinion: making sure there is a qualified chain of medical review will help control insurers' ultimate risk
Abstracts: What is reasonable executive compensation? When does market competitive pay become unreasonable pay? Managed cost strategies: the path to competitive advantage
Abstracts: What U.S. legislators can learn from other countries' health care programs. U.S. health care - more competition or more regulation
Abstracts: What will agency systems be like in 10 years? Fault tolerant computers keep you going and going. What factors should be considered in an upgrade?
Abstracts: What works in rewarding problem-solving teams? If we want to pay for performance, how do we judge performance?
Abstracts: What you need to know about pooling of interests accounting. A friendly hand for those in need
Abstracts: When America's heartland skips a beat. What does the future hold for independent agents? Will insurance be here in 30 more years?
Abstracts: When the recruiter calls. People may need people, but do they need personnel? Helping shy human resources executives conduct more effective job searches
Abstracts: Where cyberspace and the world of insurance converge. Regulators warming to online world. Delivery systems playing new role in underwriting
Abstracts: Where salary-based employee contributions fail. How employers may get relief from health care costs. Finding a way out of the workers' compensation morass
Abstracts: Who can help my agency redefine our workflows? Student internships develop jobs and talent. Commission reductions can foil production
Abstracts: Whole life dividend survey: featuring updated and non-updated policies. Number of life reinsurers dwindles as market grows
Abstracts: Who pays when the "loser pays"?. Lawyers (and accountants) face liability crisis
Abstracts: Who will pay? The outlook for employer provided health care. Getting what you pay for: managing vendors
Abstracts: Why companies are looking at omnibus pay programs. One-stop shopping for expanding family-care benefits. How companies can become more family friendly
Abstracts: Why employees support (and oppose) gainsharing plans. Cafeteria plans and bonus/waiver arrangements. Defined contribution plans: two types at work at Chevron Corporation
Abstracts: Why junks and gics are a deadly mix for pension plans. A votre sante. New and improved GIcs keep insurers competitive
Abstracts: Why make mass transit an employee benefit. Matching total compensation to employee needs. One-stop shopping for expanding family-care benefits
Abstracts: Why merit increase programs fail. A slight alteration of fit: managing compensation plan change. Base salary increases and merit bonuses: an approach to annual compensation increases
Abstracts: Why pay structures? Communicating a point of service plan. Mid-sized business vs. the health cost spiral
Abstracts: Why there's simply no place like home. Why confidence and home prices are rising. On the waterfront: an Australian fantasy home
Abstracts: Will illustration model solve compliance woes? Plenty of fireworks. The sales police: agents with New York Life Insurance Co. may remember February 1994 as the month company Chairman Harry Hohn turned their world upside down
Abstracts: Will technology change agents' and brokers' roles? Computers can't replace the personal touch. Impaired risk cases need agents' special handling
Abstracts: Will wellness programs injure workers' compensation? Time to capitalize on restructuring. Avoiding botched-up claims
Abstracts: Winners and losers in Clerical's big deal. Clerical's safety net. Halifax puts the accent on thrift
Abstracts: Winner take all. Chubb winery package program protects winery operations. Protection in a volatile world
Abstracts: Winning the fraud game. Fraud battle paying off
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