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Abstracts: Making the right choice. Buyouts don't always spell financial relief. Good times ahead
Abstracts: Managed care legislation and workers' comp. Reach out an upgrade a homeowner: telephone-based estimating can identify risks and lead to fully insured customers
Abstracts: Managed care requires new ways to find fraud. Holding the line on behavioral health costs. Managed results programs coordinate benefits delivery
Abstracts: Managed care shakeout: competitors vie for bigger slice. Opportunities expanding in 24-hour care programs. Can managed care really cut health care costs?
Abstracts: Managed care: the dream and the reality. Validating managed care: the case for data analysis. Preparing for health plan administrative simplification: the impact of HIPAA 261 - 264
Abstracts: Management education is available for agents. Agents' input can improve product design process; in light of market conduct issues and changing consumer needs, life insurance sales would be easier if producers help to design policies
Abstracts: Management incentives: a strain on shareholder relations? Developments in accounting, Medicare+choice plans and top-hat plan
Abstracts: Management incentives: a strain on shareholder relations? Does employer-sponsored training improve retention? Working together: a look at the various roles in retirement plan administration
Abstracts: Management programs serve customers and insurers. Avoiding disability land mines. Prepare for a DI hit when you reengineer
Abstracts: Managing channel conflict. Considering distribution alternatives
Abstracts: Managing mental health benefits. Employer-sponsored health benefits: pros and cons. Ancillary benefits in the 1990s
Abstracts: Managing retiree medical costs: responding to FAS 106. Integrated disability/medical management. Options for reducing retiree medical expenses
Abstracts: Managing risk in a changing environment. Current environment u insurers heading into 2005 with numerous headwinds
Abstracts: Mandatory rollover distributions and location of former participants. Allocation of plan expenses
Abstracts: Many employers face new state family leave laws. What the Family and Medical Leave Act means for employers. How to prepare for mandated family leave
Abstracts: Market conduct emerges as rating issue. Insurers won't succeed doing business as usual. Risk-based capital: is your company ready?
Abstracts: Marketers take cue from other industries. Cash value life helps middle-income clients. Term insurance survey annual renewable and 10-year level
Abstracts: Marketers take cue from other industries. Term warfare: divide and conquer. Preferred risk plans grow in popularity
Abstracts: Maximizing the value of the compensation portfolio. Returning "design" to health care benefit design. Managing health care costs: the pre-financed method
Abstracts: Medicaid block grants will affect employee health plans. The implications of easing Medicaid demonstration waiver requirements
Abstracts: Medicare risk arrangements: a primer. The art of communicating managed care. Redefining flex after health reform
Abstracts: Medicare risk HMOs: a good choice for retiree coverage? Postemployment benefits. Postemployment benefits: Medicare+Choice: success or failure?
Abstracts: Merger mania and the nonqualified plan. Recovering Y2K expenditures from your insurance carrier: a plan for the new millennium
Abstracts: Merger mania - reinsurance repercussions. Treating the agony of assumptions
Abstracts: Mergers and acquisitions drove 1995 corporate changes. Rates, sleeker structures help to set record net. Persistency improves, ratios lowest in 20 years
Abstracts: Met P&C adds twist to workplace selling. When insurers make "wrong mistakes." Accountants risk adds up to opportunity or disaster
Abstracts: Minimize risk in retirement plans. TAM identifies opportunities and pitfalls for KSOP operation. Communicating nonqualified plans to executives
Abstracts: Mitigating catastrophic losses. Program will test ability to cut losses. The value of workplace $afety
Abstracts: Models and plans crucial in catastrophe management. Pen computers help get property values right. Smash loss costs by using PVB glass
Abstracts: More turmoil ahead. Adjusting the sails. Financing growth
Abstracts: Mortal danger: between the burgeoning viatical settlements market and the tacit danger of beneficiaries tempted into harming insureds, insurers must find ways to safeguard the secondary markets for life insurance and annuities
Abstracts: Most frequently asked questions about flexible benefits. Achieving true "pay for performance": a comprehensive approach
Abstracts: Motivating high-tech workers. Dig deep for data: an effective data analysis environment helps insurers target the most likely clients and find a way to attract them
Abstracts: Motivating high-tech workers. Variable sees a new day. The New England
Abstracts: Moving ahead of lawmakers. As banks move in, consider selling out. Bancassurance lessons from abroad
Abstracts: Moving beyond the learning curve. Insurance calling. Nissan Mutual falls, Japan's first in 50 years
Abstracts: Moving beyond the learning curve. Wall Street Firm a tough competitor for insurers. Insurers prevail at NAIC on budget, credit reports
Abstracts: Multiplying agency sales: tough times don't faze agents who beat the industry's odds by marketing both life/health and property/casualty products
Abstracts: Multiplying agency sales. With loss control in mind. Reduced commissions
Abstracts: Mutual holding companies: crafting a new structure. Learning an 82-year lesson: past arguments for the formation of mutual companies may come back to haunt the demutualization movement
Abstracts: Mutual holding companies: they smell rotten and appear unconstitutional. Prudential's new strategy has money management as core segment
Abstracts: NAIC embraces push for reform with accreditation plan review. NAIC's PIN database backed; AAI pushes electronic filing
Abstracts: NAIC keeps regulatory wheels rolling - slowly. Eliminating the paper chase. Raising the crossbar
Abstracts: NAIC under fire; The NAIC struggles to redefine itself. Shakeups looming for mutual executives. Under fire: the NAIC struggles to redefine itself
Abstracts: NALC Winter Conference. New Plans, New Policies. Professional Designations: How Much Room at the Top?
Abstracts: National Casualty Co. New York Life. ITT Hartford
Abstracts: Natural disasters and disruption in property insurance markets: the case for federal reinsurance. Catastrophe modeling (opening the black box)
Abstracts: New business structure offers tax benefits. Seeking the perfect catastrophe index. Using computer modeling to predict storm damage
Abstracts: New challenges to penalty assessments under section 502(1) of ERISA. New court decisions shed light on COBRA compliance
Abstracts: New channels, new challenges. Managing health benefits: a graphic advantage. The health management network
Abstracts: New communications techniques: getting the employee involved. Flexible employee benefits programs
Abstracts: New Directions in Telemarketing. Telemarketing: Bringing the Agent in from the Cold (Call). Telemarketing Review
Abstracts: New distribution channels are beginning to emerge. Why the LTC market is heating up. Offer clients coverage in growing LTC market
Abstracts: New distribution plans can increase sales. Clarify tax consequences before trading policies. Distribution reform cuts direct path to efficiency
Abstracts: New guidance may conflict with IRS rules. IRC section 79. Guidance on relief from CAP monetary sanctions
Abstracts: New laws may make employee health incentive plans illegal. Is there an alternative to COBRA compliance? Bridging the gap: Exploring why immigrant children have less health care coverage
Abstracts: New legislative agenda will affect benefits legislation. Aging population continues to influence agenda. Retirement issues active at end of session
Abstracts: Newly divorced clients require updated plans. Newly retired clients require long-range plans. Making the grade with new college grads
Abstracts: New market dynamics need integrated strategies. Data warehousing speeds decision-making process. Pursuing the affluent client
Abstracts: New medicare prescription drug discount card program. Consumer-directed health plans were least costly plan in 2004
Abstracts: New opportunities arising for foreign insurers in Israel. Don't let consultants run away with your company. Daunting obstacles confront insurers in China
Abstracts: New opportunities arising for foreign insurers in Israel. Insurers should view Turkey as a potential market. Opportunities exist for U.S. insurers in EU insurance market
Abstracts: New options in work and family benefits. Well-designed tools ease implementation of flexible benefits. Ancillary benefits in the 1990s
Abstracts: New paradigms for 401(K) fiduciaries. Welfare benefits. Mid-year elections under IRS cafeteria plans regulations
Abstracts: New plans, new coverages. Kemper National establishes mechanical breakdown program Harleysville establishes funeral directors' program
Abstracts: New Plans, New Policies. A safe haven for nonqualified plans. Mental health plans help employees, reduce costs
Abstracts: New plans, new policies. ITT Hartford. Mutual of New York
Abstracts: New plans, new policies. Manufacturing the future. High dental costs stoke voluntary coverage market
Abstracts: New plans, new policies. Tried-and-true paths to college funding. Celtic Life
Abstracts: New rules for nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Patients' bill of fights legislation. Key he lath care legislation: year-end report
Abstracts: News that's fit to cover. Testing abilities. Lending adjusters a hand
Abstracts: New tax breaks for adoption expenses. New comparability - a new concept in profit sharing plan design. Why stock ownership is a better incentive than stock options
Abstracts: New Technology offers competitive advantages. Meet customers' needs using data warehousing. A strategy for agency automation
Abstracts: New York state of mind: former New York Insurance Superintendent is heading back to the private sector. Risk management market opens up in Japan
Abstracts: Nine-month review of life/health insurers. Best's rating monitor: six month review of life/health insurers. Annual review of life/health insurers
Abstracts: Nine-month review of property/casualty insurers. Best's rating monitor: annual review of property/casualty insurers
Abstracts: No damage claims unless all individual account participants harmed. Investment advisory services under ERISA
Abstracts: Nonstandard risks drive growth in auto market. Auto profits weather intense competition. Hitting the open road
Abstracts: No surety (or fidelity) thing. 1994 - premiums and leading fidelity writers by state. 1994 - premiums and leading surety writers by state
Abstracts: Not going through the roof. Survive and thrive in the zero era. Inflation: has the dragon been slain?
Abstracts: Not out of the woods. Insurers chip away at E&A liabilities. P/C industry accelerates recognition of E&A liabilities
Abstracts: Not what the doctor ordered. A general malaise in general liability. Homeowners results pummeled
Abstracts: Now is the time to update salaries and job descriptions. The Americans with Disabilities Act: compliance issues and tax benefits
Abstracts: Nuances of the Treasury Stock Method: stock option expensing and the impact of compensation costs on diluted earnings per share
Abstracts: Occupational Disease: Is There a Remedy? Keeping the Lid on Soaring Medical Costs. Coping with the crisis
Abstracts: Old gas plants fuel new claims. Claims handling is key against fraud. Court flurries become insurance storms
Abstracts: One Actuary's Opinion of Federal Tax Strategy. Too Much of a Good Thing. Solvency and the Dogpatch Ham
Abstracts: One base at a time. Looking back from 1997
Abstracts: One base at a time. The New England. LifeUSA
Abstracts: One flew over the workplace. Having it both ways. An upside to downsizing
Abstracts: One for the books. The new value proposition. Lack of revenue growth yields modest gain
Abstracts: One-Stop Shopping: A Better Deal? Seizing an opportunity: most insurers and agents shudder at the thought of banks selling insurance. However, astute marketers will seize the chance to partner themselves with banks
Abstracts: One world, many strategies. Managed care strategies cut reconstruction costs. "New pay" strategies that work
Abstracts: Open-eyed approach ends agents' worst nightmare; when agents don't communicate with or understand underwriters, they risk destroying accounts and losing the confidence of clients
Abstracts: Opportunities exist for U.S. insurers in EU insurance market. Senior market offers growing opportunities
Abstracts: Opportunities expanding in 24-hour care programs. Helping the small employer helps employees. Insurance brokers' identity crisis: a risk manager's view
Abstracts: Opportunities expanding in 24-hour care programs. The insurer's dilemma: covering the undetectable. Managed care option cuts auto insurers' costs
Abstracts: Opportunity for foreigners outweighs risk in Russian market. The waking bear: the revolution in Russian insurance is just beginning
Abstracts: Other mutuals watch and wait. 20/20 foresight: creating a strategic vision for the new millenium. Creating a successful retained assets program
Abstracts: Outlook remains good for variable annuities. Canada's life insurers face mounting challenges. This selling season's hit: equity-indexed annuities
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