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Abstracts: Outstanding results amid turmoil. Best's Rating Changes. Best's rating updates
Abstracts: Overview of international insurance. Five-year review of admitted assets. 1992 premium distribution
Abstracts: Pace quickens in the search for help in catastrophe crisis. Risk manager's survey identifies key concerns. Raising capital in the public market
Abstracts: Package price contracting: a growing managed care alternative. Quality may be center stage, but cost keeps stealing the show
Abstracts: Panel: the insurance globe is growing ever smaller. Providing family benefits can boost bottom line. Tort reform tops agenda, but states take lead
Abstracts: Part cash, part balancing act: why cash balance plans get so much attention. Rewards for team contributions to quality
Abstracts: Participating policyholder rights: the next challenge. CD/policy loan offers bank-product alternative. A way to compare apples to oranges
Abstracts: Pay-for-performance and pay satisfaction. Best practices tips. A look at equity compensation in 2004
Abstracts: Pay-for-performance in the public sector. Are job evaluation systems still relevant in the public sector? Retaining executives through restructuring events
Abstracts: Paying employees who quit - unemployment compensation benefits for voluntary resignations. Automatic sales compensation plans
Abstracts: Paying for aging: health care in the future. IRS releases final regulations on optional forms of benefits. A strategic focus on benefits financing for global employees
Abstracts: Paying for aging: health care in the future. The e-tailing of health benefit plans. Are multiple health care plans giving you a headache?
Abstracts: Pay me now, care for me later; despite the early hype over long-term care policies and the lure of new tax breaks, sales haven't soared the way many insurers expected they would
Abstracts: Pay once, collect often. Dig deep for data. Finding the right mix makes the difference
Abstracts: Payroll deduction: a niche market full of potential. Changes in marketplace make survival a challenge. Finding the middle
Abstracts: PBGC deficit causes concern on Capitol Hill. Employee benefits and the Clinton budget. Congress reconsiders ERISA preemption
Abstracts: PBGC issues final regulations on reportable events. Dependent care nondiscrimination testing and compliance. PBGC pension reform legislation
Abstracts: Pension administration made ... easy! Making the most of 401(k) plans: who's choosing what and why. Defined contribution plans: two types at work at Chevron Corporation
Abstracts: Pensions, health care, and workforce planning: the baby boom impact. Connecting CEO performance to corporate performance: examining intangible metrics of shareholder value
Abstracts: Pension simplification for 401(k) plans under the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996. Economic growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
Abstracts: People to watch in the coming year. Developing "the right stuff." (harnessing company resources and talent)(Brief Article)
Abstracts: Performance-based fees reward brokers, clients. Insurers take another swing at work site selling. Program will test ability to cut losses
Abstracts: Personal contact counts: alternative selling systems cannot replace the human touch that agents bring to a sale
Abstracts: Personalized employee communications. Nontraditional benefits: enticing, retaining, and educating employees. Employee turnover revisited: differences among involuntary turnover, voluntary turnover, and current employees
Abstracts: Personal lines fuel growth in premiums. Net income plummets on quake aftershocks. Soft pricing, competition dampened 1995 premiums
Abstracts: Personal service remains best business strategy. Wealthy clients require sophisticated techniques. Newly married clients have distinct needs
Abstracts: Phantom stock vs. restricted stock for executive wealth accumulation and diversification. Granting options below the executive level
Abstracts: Picking a winner: the opportunities for agents in the changing individual disability marketplace are as great as the challenges
Abstracts: Picking a winner: the opportunities for agents in the changing individual disability marketplace are as great as the challenges. part 2
Abstracts: Pitching future care. Unintended consequences. Reaching the top: how the heads of five leading life/health insurance companies got where they are today
Abstracts: Players from afar. Latex rubs many the wrong way; allergies to latex rubber are a new source of liability litigation and new concern for loss managers
Abstracts: Players from afar. The only constants: taxes and tax law changes. Tilting at auto coverage: financial writer Andrew Tobias, America's leading critic of what lawyers have done to no-fault insurance, details his ongoing relationship with money - and the insurance industry - in his latest book
Abstracts: Playing for keeps: insurers are learning that luring seniors to their Medicare HMOs is only half the battle - holding on to them may be the hardest part
Abstracts: Postemployment benefits
Abstracts: Postemployment benefits: choosing assumptions and implementing SFAS 106. Trends in retiree health care costs
Abstracts: Postemployment benefits: financial considerations in the development of a group long-term care insurance program
Abstracts: Post employment benefits: how to reach your retirees. Retiree health - where are we today and where are we going?
Abstracts: Postemployment benefits: retiree health when individuals have to buy coverage. The business environment and the benefits package in the 1990s
Abstracts: Post-takeover Hong Kong will hold to its course. Group teleconferencing can give careers a boost. Group teleconferencing offers exchange of ideas
Abstracts: Preparing for takeoff. Avoiding the IRS' grim reaper. Fighting the client
Abstracts: President-elect seen as less friendly to industry. It's up to agents to define their roles. Do life insurers overmanage assets?
Abstracts: Presidential profile: Herb Wender. President Oliver responds to questions as he begins a challenging year for ALTA
Abstracts: Price cutting gives way to coverage expansion. Priced to move. Rethinking the pollution exclusion
Abstracts: Principles and best practices of executive compensation that stand the test of time. Variable pay across borders: the case of France
Abstracts: Professional liability takes cue from clients. Malpractice insurers target alternatives. Drive for nonstandard auto profits puts agents at risk
Abstracts: "Profiling" - an effective hiring technique. Lessons from losses. Hiring from your competitors: lessons from the Volkswagen incident
Abstracts: Profiting from diversity. Time Insurance Co. New plans, new policies
Abstracts: Profiting from the boom in affinity marketing. Unlocking the CPA market. Profiting by association
Abstracts: Program business delivers custom made market. Selling to America's rainbow. Following the leaders
Abstracts: Program business feels alternative market's lure. Alternative markets: attracting wider following. Alternatives devour a primary marketplace
Abstracts: Promise or peril? Leaving surplus lines out in the cold. The redlining fire continues to burn
Abstracts: Provident Life & Accident. Illinois Mutual Life & Casualty Co. The Principal Financial Group
Abstracts: Purchasing health care value. Rethinking your health and welfare benefits strategy. Rethinking your health care strategy
Abstracts: Put me in, coach. A dose of control. Building new walls around managed care
Abstracts: Putting money where the growth is. Financial model for optimal risk/return results. 1993's premium growth improves expense ratios
Abstracts: Putting risks on the map. Guard checks against tampering and forgery. Accountants face risks doing estate planning
Abstracts: Putting the scalpel to managed care. Building new walls around managed care. Washington's next target: managed care
Abstracts: Qualifying for retirement. A multifront term war. New retirement products just in time for baby boomers
Abstracts: Quest for quality: the payoff for a quality program can be significant for insurers with patience and the willingness to expend considerable effort
Abstracts: Rabbicular Trusts: a new development in nonqualified benefit security. GATT increases need for nonqualified plans
Abstracts: Raising the Social Security retirement age: implications for employers. The high stakes of employee benefit plan miscommunications
Abstracts: Rates, bonds spur insurers' rebound. Market conduct fallout causes slow growth rate. Modest 2.3% growth rate due to group sales slump
Abstracts: Reaching the top: how the heads of five leading life/health insurance companies got where they are today. Underwriters' role should be expanded; companies benefit from involving underwriters in program design and case management from start to finish
Abstracts: Read all about it to avoid trouble. Industry can profit from feedback engineering. Computers help cut reliance on technology consultants
Abstracts: Read the fine print when selling guarantees. Bonus accident policy drives annuity sales. Insurers' new dilemma: money managers or spread managers?
Abstracts: Reaping a tax benefit requires planning. For some clients charity should begin at home. Model buy/sell agreements to meet IRS challenges
Abstracts: Recent court rulings aid professional liability. Congress fails on Superfund; battle shifts to courts. Passage of disaster bill faces difficult future
Abstracts: Recent developments. You're getting older. Navigating the Erie - and the cost accounting standards
Abstracts: Recovery on track, but net is still down. Personal lines drove growth in 1995 premiums. Corporate changes: mergers and acquisitions set record
Abstracts: Recruiting the new breed of insurance CEOs. Banks are opportunities, not obstacles. Banks urged to hasten movement into insurance
Abstracts: Redesigning the benefits department. Health care reviews. Is broadbanding right for your organization?
Abstracts: Redesigning the Medicare benefit package: defined benefits or defined contributions? Joint-labor management committees can solve the health care puzzle
Abstracts: Reducing employee absenteeism through sick child day care. Benefits Websites: controlling costs while enhancing communication
Abstracts: Reengineered systems give competitive edge. Image, work-flow systems ready for widespread use. New client/server systems create competitive edge
Abstracts: Re-entry illustrations will haunt industry. Riders can benefit both agent and prospect. Selling to America's rainbow
Abstracts: Reform for the small-group health insurance market. Self-funded health insurance for small employers. Point-of-service plans: the standard health coverage of the future?
Abstracts: Refuting the myths about mutual holding companies. Getting back to basics. Demutualization: charting a course
Abstracts: Regulating at a snail's pace. $2 trillion and counting. RBC technical overview
Abstracts: Regulation 98: Muted Impact on Liability. HMO's liability cloudy in doctor's malpractice. Battle over Superfund liability continues, obstacles remain
Abstracts: Reinsurance Premiums Remained Flat in First Nine Months of 1998. New techniques stimulate reinsurance competition
Abstracts: Reinsurers must expand scope of financial services to thrive. Reinsurance and managing insurance company risk
Abstracts: Reinventing benefits. Broad-based employee stock plans. A look at broadbanding in practice
Abstracts: Reinventing your health plan service relationship. Should plan sponsors be reviewing managed care delivery? Health care quality: a primer for plan sponsors
Abstracts: Relaxing ... at the speed of light. Reinsurance broker's role expands to risk manager. Managing risk is key to brokers' survival
Abstracts: Rep. Dingell introduces solvency regulation bill. Solvency control belongs with states, NAII says. Solvency and rate suppression
Abstracts: Replacement cost coverage: the underinsurance solution. The perils and pitfalls of certificates of insurance. Leasehold interest insurance: not just cancellation coverage
Abstracts: Repricing stock options: current trends and dangers. Application and valuation of stock options in managerial compensation plans
Abstracts: RESPA: title insurance and seller pay. The new RESPA regs: what's wrong, what's right, what's next. RESPA information highway snarl demands immediate attention
Abstracts: Restoring common sense to producer compensation. Turn bidding process into selling opportunity. Telemarketing beats good old boy referrals
Abstracts: Restoring individual DI. Timely medicine for the LTC crisis. NHI: it's better than you think
Abstracts: Rethinking agency automation. Electronic transactions: the new look at Lloyd's. Will service centers force out independents?
Abstracts: Retiree health cutbacks: responding to lessons learned from recent court developments. Innovative funding of retiree health benefits
Abstracts: Retirement at risk: the growing threat of health costs. "Total compensation" plan design: beyond dependent care benefits: the Life cycle Allowance
Abstracts: Retirement at risk: the growing threat of health costs. We're off to see the wizard: will we find a brain and a heart for U.S. health care at the end of the yellow brick road?
Abstracts: Retirement benefits in the 1990s: 1998 survey report. Retirement benefits in 1995: KPMG's third annual survey findings
Abstracts: Retirement security high on congressional priority list. Legislative push reflects campaign agendas. Health care reform heats up (again)
Abstracts: Review of 1992 Best's rating changes and trends for P/C insurers. Strategic and financial challenges place downward pressure on P/C ratings
Abstracts: Review of 1992 P/C Best's rating assignments. Best's rating monitor: six month review property/casualty insurers
Abstracts: Revitalizing the falling 401(k) system: What discretionary trustees offer that directed trustees do not. Killing the golden goose: proposed nonqualified deferred compensation reforms would greatly impact executive deferred compensation
Abstracts: Rewarding for performance - any real progress? Compensation strategy in the new organization. Linking reward to service - the Welch's case
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