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Abstracts: Insurers' cost cutting yields little improvement. Undervaluation poses unanticipated threats. Gaining a foothold
Abstracts: Insurers' cost cutting yields little improvement. Workers' compensation shows great strength; 1994 results are boosted by lower losses, reforms
Abstracts: Insurers fighting chemical makers in Superfund battle. Big I boss to bridge gaps. PIA chief prepares for year of results
Abstracts: Insurers hustle to meet health reform deadlines. Foundation Health Corp. Using long-term care to ensure customer loyalty
Abstracts: Insurers need help with catastrophe losses. Watching over the Magic Kingdom. Underinsurance remains widespread problem
Abstracts: Insurers' premium growth narrowed to 3.7% in 1994. Industry 'weathers' cats, posts improved earnings. Underwriting losses increased 21.6% in 1994
Abstracts: Insurers rely on bullish stock market; nine-month financial results show that industry conditions remain bleak
Abstracts: Insurers serve up an online feast - for competitors. Smoke detectors in cyberspace: online feedback areas are one place insurers can learn what people are really saying about them
Abstracts: Insurers still climbing Internet learning curve. Visit political sites on information highway. CEOs express skepticism about selling on the Internet
Abstracts: Insurers still reluctant to improve salaries. Does tort reform make sense? Insurers get rewards out of helping parents
Abstracts: Insurers taking auto repair PPOs for a test drive. It may be time to revise the loss payable clause. Risk management works in residual markets
Abstracts: Insurers venture onto the Internet Web. Adapting to the Web: a new survey says insurers fare poorly online, but better days are coming
Abstracts: Insurers' Y2K Costs Could Top $6.58 Billion. Pricing and consolidation: farewell to the P/C cycle. Reserving for pollution lacks an easy solution
Abstracts: Intangibles: an intransigent issue. Regulating at a snail's pace. Rep. Dingell introduces solvency regulation bill
Abstracts: Integrating Information Systems and Office Automation. How can I successfully budget for automation? New cellular technology creates mobile office
Abstracts: Integrating underwriting and hazard assessments. Sales and underwriting -- a winning combination. Lessons from the outsourcers
Abstracts: Interactive TV can be a marketer's dream. High tension
Abstracts: Interim rules governing the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996. IRS releases guidance on contingent worker issue
Abstracts: International stock option use for compensation. The benefits of ESOPS. Employees as shareholders: the increasing use of global share plans to compensate employees
Abstracts: Internet-based enrollment and communications: a primer for HR and benefit plan sponsors. Account based healthcare: a strategic context for plan sponsors
Abstracts: Internet offers executives new tool for managing risk. Visit political sites on information highway. CEOs express skepticism about selling on the Internet
Abstracts: Intricacies of small cap investing. Stock investing: a time to globalize. Investors think small again
Abstracts: IRS actions favorably affect qualified retirement plans. IRS extends and simplifies the nondiscrimination regulations
Abstracts: IRS can disqualify profit sharing plan without closing agreement. Diagnostic-related group rates preempted by ERISA
Abstracts: IRS gives relief to policyholders. IRS issues DAC regulations. Deficiency reserve not allowed for nonlife SPDAs
Abstracts: IRS hands greater flexibility to S corporations. The only constants: taxes and tax law changes. Will proposed IRS rules simplify client planning? The IRS "Check the Box" revisions could make life easier for businesses, but some pitfalls may remain
Abstracts: IRS issues final salvage and subrogation regulations. IRS appeals to a higher court but does not win its case
Abstracts: IRS proposes more flexible requirements for nondiscrimination safe harbors. IRS issues final nondiscrimination regulation package
Abstracts: IRS releases discount factors. IRS releases final discounting rules. Taxpayer wins intangible assets case
Abstracts: Is executive compensation a free market? The general theory of incentive compensation: defining a spectrum of performance measurement
Abstracts: Is gender neutral dead? Will agents get results? An economically viable model for insurers to demutualize
Abstracts: Is it illegal to involve employees in pay design? Vermont Supreme Court backs rights for same-sex couples. Court upholds managed-care plan design
Abstracts: Is it time for a product rating system? Making the case. International rating update. Best's Rating Monitor: annual review of international companies
Abstracts: Is it time for a regulatory truce? Getting ahead of Superfund. Crystal ball shows familiar battles ahead
Abstracts: Is pay for performance effective? Quality management challenges compensation professionals. Performance-based rewards ... what works and why
Abstracts: Is your reinsurer safe? A.M. Best improves rating structure. Best Practices uncovers agencies doing it right
Abstracts: It's deja vu all over again. The year 2000 is a problem for more than mainframes. How to make imaging work for your agency
Abstracts: It's time to communicate.... Public records - vision 2000. Major insurers launch Title Industry Reference Program to minimize fraud-related losses
Abstracts: It's time to fine-tune the automation process. To handle the crunch, consider alternatives. Assessing value
Abstracts: It's time to prepare for a mega-catastrophe. Profitable markets wait beyond the red line. Certify your insured's alarm is UL certified
Abstracts: It's time to reevaluate time element coverage. Uncover a gold mine by pursuing subrogation: at a time when insurers want to prove their value to commercial accounts, many bypass opportunity by not focusing on subrogation
Abstracts: Just how efficient are the trackers. Paying the people who deal with your customers. Paying for the relationship, not just the sale
Abstracts: Justice for all, windfalls for few. Lights, camera ... insurance! The fine art of fine arts coverage
Abstracts: Justifying insurance company political/charitable expenditures. The right to underwrite
Abstracts: Karachi. Restructuring: determining who stays, who departs. An exercise in risk transfer
Abstracts: Keeping an eye on the competition. Learning a lesson
Abstracts: Keeping expatriates in U.S. qualified plans: part 1 - why do it, how to do it. Keeping expatriates in U.S. qualified plans: Part II - tax, treatly problems, and ERISA
Abstracts: Keeping the lid on health care costs; strategies that work. National health care reform: a corporate perspective
Abstracts: Key industry ratios and statistics. How the industry operates. part 2
Abstracts: Key industry ratios and statistics. How to analyze a life insurer
Abstracts: Key industry ratios and statistics. Industry trends
Abstracts: Key industry ratios and statistics. part 2
Abstracts: Key industry ratios and statistics. part 4
Abstracts: Key issues for implementing skill-based pay. Compensating employees for better quality and profits. Most frequently asked questions about flexible benefits
Abstracts: Key issues for implementing skill-based pay. The true cost of disability plans. 401(k) plans are more popular than ever
Abstracts: Know the code. The state of the art in high-tech thievery. The high stakes of high-tech
Abstracts: KSOP: the wave of the future for financial institutions and corporations. Should you implement a paid time-off plan?
Abstracts: Labor department reviews revenue sharing arrangements. Managerial performance appraisals: the good, the bad and the ugly
Abstracts: Labor government likens pension providers to alcoholics. Opportunity awaits the prepared. Sales automation systems increase sales, productivity
Abstracts: Landscape of risk: navigating the future. Weathering ups and downs of long-term stock investing. Bermuda's new registration rules prompt stronger regulatory ties
Abstracts: Lead-based paint law changes liability color. EPL claims rising - where's the coverage? On-line defamation is new cybertort issue
Abstracts: Learn from your customers or future may be bleak. Cashing out. Allstate expands coverage in New York City, Long Island
Abstracts: Learning from RRG failures. London. Decision time at Lloyd's
Abstracts: Legal crisis threatens managed care. Managed care aims lobbying against anti-HMO measures
Abstracts: Legislative scene. Will we ever have health care reform? Do we really want it? Health care at the traffic circle
Abstracts: Lessons from TWA's pension plan troubles. How plan sponsors can meet new disclosure requirements. The pragmatic health plan sponsor: outlook for 1995
Abstracts: Let's help make a deal; intermediaries feel the squeeze as mergers and acquisitions add up - more than 200 insurance deals last year alone
Abstracts: Let's help make a deal; intermediaries feel the squeeze as mergers and acquisitions add up - more than 200 insurance deals last year alone. part 2
Abstracts: Lettering in leadership: the American College and Limra International jointly sponsor a new credential. SIMPLE plans offer complex financial gains
Abstracts: Levelized commissions: the question isn't 'if' but 'when.' Viatical firms fighting outlaw image. Higher-end products spur mutuals' growth
Abstracts: Level the playing field with common game plan. Bancassurance in French P/C lines is slowly becoming profitable
Abstracts: Life company assets: a rater's view. Six-month advance financial results - 1992. Best's insolvency study: life/health insurers 1976-1991
Abstracts: Life/health insurers' profits surged 31% in 1995. Underwriting losses took a steep downturn. Issued and in-force rise, policy counts grow 0.02%
Abstracts: Life insurance still makes a good pension. Stemming misconduct is everybody's problem. Variable life can be a real hot potato
Abstracts: Lifestyle, mental factors key to LTC underwriting. Long-term options proliferate on tax breaks. Joint effort required to build top vendor base
Abstracts: Lloyd's costly victory. Lloyd's transformation is a sweet and sour mix. Catastrophes: the new math
Abstracts: Lloyd's First Captive to Be Launched. Emerging convergence: a host of emerging and converging trends will have an impact on the property/casualty insurance industry
Abstracts: Locating and analyzing international insurance company information. Opportunities and obstacles - American insurers move overseas
Abstracts: London. Managing legal costs
Abstracts: London. Rate classification reform in New Jersey. Leaving their mark on history
Abstracts: London. Transamerica glass program eliminates the pain of loss
Abstracts: Long-term care insurance: a mixed opportunity. Tax reform for LTC: defuses the Medicaid bomb. ADA: the bill of rights for AIDS patients
Abstracts: Long-term care joins the group. Reshuffling the Medicare deck. Cooking up the next health revolution: several cutting-edge programs that are already up and running could emerge as the next big thing in health insurance
Abstracts: Long-term commitments. Team approach can hold underwriting costs. Industry says it's no surprise
Abstracts: Long-term incentive plans: U.S. multi-national firms erase the borders. Nonqualified retirement plans and related benefits facilitate harmonious executive compensation programs
Abstracts: Look a gift horse in the mouth. Do the right thing. Maximize charitable gift benefits: the IRS plans to clarify when small businesses can give S-corporation stock to charities
Abstracts: Look a gift horse in the mouth. Ease estate tax burden with effective planning. Are your powers in place?
Abstracts: Looking for Halon alternatives. Leasehold interest insurance: not just cancellation coverage. Defusing public opposition
Abstracts: Loose cannons on the regulatory front. A profitable alternative. Question marks surround judgement expense issue
Abstracts: Loose cannons on the regulatory front. Intermediaries under siege. In search of regulatory balance
Abstracts: Losing the online budget battle. Insurers serve up an online feast - for competitors: the same features are drawing consumers to the World Wide Web have made snooping on competitors even easier
Abstracts: Loss Control: Lost in the Shuffle? When is a contribution to an IRA worthwhile? Bruised and lost in a labyrinth
Abstracts: Lost in space. Selling marketplace. Rough air ahead
Abstracts: LTC insurance market is growing younger. Offer clients coverage in growing LTC market. Know IRS requirements on policy exchanges
Abstracts: Lull in annuities sales may soon end. Five-year universal life policy history. Five-year history of flexible-premium annuities
Abstracts: Mad cow panic leaves prices stagnating. It's time to end the insanity. The outrageous risk from BSE
Abstracts: Mainstream insurers regain appetite for high-risk market. Corporate downsizing spawns a growing E&S market. Surplus lines study finds industry has matured
Abstracts: Make market conduct a key corporate value. Adopt suitability rules or face new regulations. More mutuals take the pledge
Abstracts: Making bank distribution work. Soft market takes its toll: study finds that excess & surplus lines' rise lags industry's growth rate
Abstracts: Making GAAP relevant. On the cutting edge of service. Participating whole life policy survey
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