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Abstracts: Client/server technology gives competitive edge. Fading into the background. Manage IT assets before they're out of control
Abstracts: Clients' interests must come first: prudent judgment must be built upon a foundation of knowledge about the client's situation
Abstracts: Closing the book on library losses. Placing underwriting back into agents' hands. Tapping the knowledge of experts
Abstracts: Closing the gap in information. Best's insolvency study: life/health insurers 1976-1991. The learning connection
Abstracts: Closing the gap in information. Real estate relief: although troubled real estate assets are a headache, insurers can alleviate the pain by developing successful asset-management and disposition programs
Abstracts: Clusters giving carriers new ways to tap markets. ISO carves out new market niche. Insurers fret as consumer groups merge
Abstracts: CNA's Chookaszian to Step Down. Storm Clouds and Silver Linings. Insurers' bondholdings rise to 62% of assets
Abstracts: College recruiting tips for insurance professionals. Demographic changes and private passenger automobile insurance in the 21st century
Abstracts: College recruiting tips for insurance professionals. Small companies, large exposures. Companies can escape insurance captivity
Abstracts: College students' attitudes about insurance. The level of legal duty is the agent's choice. Competitive intelligence systems for the independent insurance agent
Abstracts: Collision avoidance and the high-tech trucker. Safety first for Santa Claus; underwriting update. Secure business premises by limiting access
Abstracts: Collision Course. Applying change leadership course skills. Industry pricing fundamentals stay on course
Abstracts: Common characteristics of uncommon success. Matching distribution systems to markets spells success. More than billboards and business cards
Abstracts: Commuting by Computer. Deducting the interest on loans to buy policies. Motivating high-tech workers
Abstracts: Companies look to stem agent turnover. Examining universal life policies. Clinical Underwriting focuses on individuals
Abstracts: Companies offer career management for couples. Employee assistance programs. What is personnel economics?
Abstracts: Company hammers away at workers' comp costs. Opportunities growing in self-insurance market. Temporary duty program cuts comp costs a "TAD." (Temporary Alternative Duty program for disabled workers)
Abstracts: Comparative company analysis. A mature group, led by large well-known companies
Abstracts: Comparative company analysis. How to analyze a property casualty insurance company
Abstracts: Comparative company analysis - insurance, property-casualty. Underlying results improving
Abstracts: Comparative company analysis - insurance, property, casualty. Comparative company analysis - insurance: property - casualty
Abstracts: Comparative company analysis. Strong underwriting and lack of catastrophes bolster insurer's profits
Abstracts: Comparing regulators: elected versus appointed. Reduced commissions
Abstracts: Compensating expatriates and third-country nationals. Aligning stockholders and manager interests. Medical coverage for expatriates: avoiding the hazards overseas
Abstracts: Compensation and benefits laws affecting the flexible workforce. Why put workers' compensation under ERISA?
Abstracts: Compensation and the job satisfaction equation. The new compensation agenda. Competency-linked role evaluation -- management owned and operated
Abstracts: Compensation issues for non-profit organizations--Part I. New rules for nonprofits: proposed Section 457 regulations
Abstracts: Compliance audit insurance program can be paid for with plan assets and other DOL/IRS guidance. Trustee errs in accepting letter as valid consent to distribution
Abstracts: Computer assisted performance appraisal systems. The complex issues of pay equity. Performance appraisals and pay-for-performance plans
Abstracts: Confessions of an insurance observer. Distribution revolution confronts agency system. Agents should be aware of emerging liability
Abstracts: Congress proposes more entitlements for returning vets. Participation of self-employed ministers and chaplains in church plans
Abstracts: Connecticut Mutual Life. Sun Life of Canada (U.S.). National Life of Vermont
Abstracts: Consolidating health and welfare plans: a case study. Managed care accreditation: Decoding the acronyms. HMO due diligence: are you at risk?
Abstracts: Consolidation continues in Canada: Canadian insurers are targeting efficiency as the key to competition. Competitive challenges loom on the horizon
Abstracts: Consolidation create opportunity. AXA-UAP merger will embolden France's private business sector. New-style mergers marry two cultures
Abstracts: Constructing protection for design professionals. Insurers look to the issues of 1993. Fixing a damaged market
Abstracts: Constructing protection for design professionals. Nonprofits in the dark about liability risks. European Union
Abstracts: Consulting has a bright future. Critical criteria in selecting a global broker/consultant. When in Rome: international imperatives for agents
Abstracts: Consumer Privacy: A Pivitol Hinge - As the irreversible winds of the financial services tempest sweep across the national business-scape
Abstracts: Consumers like agents' expertise but banks get high service marks. Consumers like agents' expertise: but banks get high service marks
Abstracts: Contestable markets for property-liability insurance: is rate and form regulation necessary? Auto insurer Web sites: a buyer's perspective
Abstracts: Convention site Atlanta: cosmopolitan sparkle in an antebellum setting. Education cuts losses - send an employee to an educational seminar
Abstracts: Converting crises into opportunities: the world's insurance community is betting Hong Kong will remain the gateway to Asian economy
Abstracts: Converting crises into opportunities: the world's insurance community is betting Hong Kong will remain the gateway to the Asian economy
Abstracts: Converting Reimbursable Dividends. Captive Insurers: Where Are We Headed? Taxes: Looking Ahead
Abstracts: Converting your retiree medical benefits to a medicare supplement plan. Retiree health plan design: common questions and answers
Abstracts: Coping with trauma in the workplace. Disability risk management in the private sector. Lessons from disability management research
Abstracts: Coping with turmoil in the Korean life market. Certain employer plans hold risk for agents. Compensation plans keeping pace with global market
Abstracts: Corporate changes 1991. Review of Best's 1992 L/H rating assignments. Columbia Universal Life
Abstracts: Corporate changes: catastrophes, regulatory pressures were driving forces in '94. Economic factors affect insurance claims cost
Abstracts: Cost-effective EAPs pay off in the long run. Meeting behavioral healthcare needs through managed care. The keys to implementing managed care
Abstracts: Costs count: a Best's Policy Reports survey examines the costs incurred with the life insurance portion of variable universal life policies
Abstracts: Could I transfer an entire database? Budgeting for technology - using the 3% solution; the cost of replacing or upgrading systems stops agencies from updating their systems
Abstracts: Court approves ERISA action against ENRON executives, trustee, and plan auditor for retirement plan losses. The effects of stock option expensing
Abstracts: Court dismisses class action alleging wrongful classification of "leased employees". Employer liable for damages for inadequate delivery of SPD
Abstracts: Courts rule on when insurance plans are covered by ERISA - and when they're not. Letter agreement promising benefits covered under ERISA
Abstracts: Creating a win-win solution for 401(k) administration. Defined contribution plan providers should not fly blind
Abstracts: Credentialing is key to avoiding lawsuits. Any willing provider laws threaten to sink managed care. Crackdown set on health care fraud
Abstracts: Credit reports aid underwriters, but is it worth the controversy? Correlating credit and claims experience
Abstracts: Credit reports aid underwriters, but is it worth the controversy? part 2 Bank/insurance rivalry inches toward conciliation
Abstracts: Criminals aren't to blame for all insurance crime. The risk/insurance consultant: how to become one. China's Insurance Pioneers
Abstracts: Cross-selling by any name makes good business sense. Forget the information highway, first let's get a destination
Abstracts: Crystal ball shows familiar battles ahead. Catastrophe legislation: breaking the logjam. Nafta inspires NAII push for tighter truck rules
Abstracts: Cures for the common defect: new corrective procedures for qualified plans. British Gas payments to directors rise 47%
Abstracts: Cures for the common defect: new corrective procedures for qualified plans. part 2 New tools for evaluating fees and expenses in selecting section 401 (k) plans service providers
Abstracts: Current environment: Hurricane Katrina's impact likely to be far reaching. Managing risk in a changing environment
Abstracts: Current environment - industry performance remains strong. Comparative company analysis - insurance, life and health
Abstracts: Current environment - soft landing ahead for property-casualty insurers - or another bumpy ride? Industry trends
Abstracts: Current environment u the industry turnaround continues. A mature group, led by large well-known companies. Comparative company analysis - insurance: life & health
Abstracts: Customers give high marks to companies and agents: long-term policyholders surveyed. The redlining lie
Abstracts: Customers give high marks to companies and agents: long-term policyholders surveyed. part 2 Industry says it's no surprise
Abstracts: Dancing the technology tango. Getting ahead by sending out. Profit from the growing information revolution
Abstracts: Data warehousing creates one stop shopping source. Make technology part of superior service. How can I reengineer my business procedures?
Abstracts: Deferred compensation plans can avoid the gaze of state income taxing authorities. Interest on deferred compensation not deductible
Abstracts: Defined Contribution Health Plans: Future or Fad. The importance of former employees. The health care cost battle is not over
Abstracts: Defined contribution strategies and consumer driven health care: a primer for plan sponsors. Implementing domestic partners benefits: A primer
Abstracts: Defined contribution strategies and consumer driven health care: a primer for plan sponsors. part 2 Health management: a primer for employer plans
Abstracts: Define quality service so you can deliver it. Look before you leap onto new compensation plans. Discover target markets by knowing your customer
Abstracts: Defusing a balance sheet time bomb: financing and securing nonqualified plan benefits. Applying new technology to effectively administer nonqualified plans
Abstracts: Demutualization's next phase. An industry under pressure. Life insurers try to change with the times
Abstracts: Dental plans fight fraud to stay competitive. Dental benefits: a tool for recruiting and retaining employees. Medical savings accounts: can they work for you?
Abstracts: Department of Labor issues Advisory Opinion on disclosure of commissions. Labor department reviews revenue sharing arrangements
Abstracts: Depleted reserves can signal trouble. It was a very mixed year; 1996 financial results: earnings, surplus growth mask insurers' woes as the industry grapples with losses and competition
Abstracts: Developing a Brand Name. A brewing global reinsurance turf war. Masters of disaster: earthquakes in the Midwest and East Coast would be particularly costly to insurers
Abstracts: Developments in accounting, Medicare+choice plans and top-hat plan. Will that be on white or rye? - Phased retirement can vary according to each employer's palate
Abstracts: Dick Cecchettini - portrait of a president. Americans with Disabilities Act. Washington, D.C.: a "capital" city for a Capitol convention
Abstracts: Digging the dirt. Progressive offers auto next week. Awash in fraud
Abstracts: Direct assignment and direct reimbursement: the cost-effective consumer directed dental plans. Are multiple health care plans giving you a headache?
Abstracts: Director compensation: balancing economic pressures with the critical need for qualified candidates. Motivating sales channels in an E-business environment
Abstracts: Disability income sales survey. Disability income sales results. DI writers try to end the bleeding
Abstracts: Disability post-ADA. Unveiling disability claims fraud. Noncancellable disability income survey
Abstracts: Disability reinsurers taking on a new role. The key to distribution: value. Blue-collar disability can mean green for you
Abstracts: Disability's on the mend. Paying the price. Changing needs create DI market opportunity
Abstracts: Disclosure of "usual and customary" fee schedules. DOL issues guidance in evaluating Y2K fiduciary liability. Letter agreement promising benefits covered under ERISA
Abstracts: Discount cards: low-cost benefit offerings on the rise. Closing the gap: lowering program costs and increasing perceived value with employee self-service
Abstracts: Discrimination suit raises the stakes. Astute appraisals. Securing museum coverage
Abstracts: Does employer-sponsored training improve retention? Retirement on a lone legged stool. RIF's accelerated benefits vs. severance package: valid choice
Abstracts: DOL decides company owes benefits to part-time employees. Release of future claims not fiduciary breach. Courts clarify requirements for summary plan descriptions
Abstracts: Don't forget the underwriter. Putting paper in its place. Sink or swim
Abstracts: Don't marry new system with old work flow. Help wanted: only the nimble need apply. Investigating sales force can reduce fraud risks; with fraud costing tens of billions of dollars, insurers should verify the resumes and backgrounds of agents
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