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Abstracts: Rhetoric and reality. SAFE-T to the rescue. The residual market detour
Abstracts: Riding out the variable annuities market. Counting costs. Tracking retirement annuities
Abstracts: Riding the insurance investment wave. Help in doing the right thing. Making the grade with new college grads
Abstracts: Riding the insurance investment wave. Making waves: mergers, acquisitions, name changes, closings and start-ups helped make 1996 a notable year for consolidation
Abstracts: RIMS participants expect more from insurers and brokers. Distribution of assets - 1991. Best's rating monitor
Abstracts: Rise of the insurance Webmasters. A woman's place: women handle competition differently, view themselves differently and may be better attuned to some changing aspects of insurance
Abstracts: Rising rates, weak sales hurt profits in 1994. A familiar refrain: rates squeeze profits. Heady growth ground to a halt in 1994
Abstracts: Risk alternatives for agents. Agents pull the strings with EDI: agents need not fear that electronic data interface will give insurers control of their computer systems
Abstracts: Risk-based capital: is your company ready? The industry at a turning point. Perspective on good bank/bad bank structures
Abstracts: Risk management market opens up in Japan. Expanding overseas carries special risk considerations. An electronic forum for the business of risk
Abstracts: Round two of the health fight begins. Washington's next target: managed care. A renewed battle looms over mental health coverage
Abstracts: Running out of the clock. Protect brand equity in the global marketplace. Global outlook
Abstracts: Running out the clock. Demographics, reduced welfare state could boost Swedish market. A television network can boost your writings
Abstracts: Rush hour: whether it's by phone, through banks or in cyberspace, auto insurance writers are in an escalating battle to win the low-cost distribution war
Abstracts: Ryan's hope: change and more change. Going contingent: contingent commissions can gain value for companies and agents - if the programs are set up with the goals of both in mind
Abstracts: Ryan's hope: change and more change. Taking stock: the feeling isn't very mutual as a flood of insurers switch or announce their intentions to join the stock world. Those converting face a host of pitfalls
Abstracts: Safeguard against plan disqualification under new IRS policy. IRS multiemployer plan examination program
Abstracts: Sarbanes-oxley ups the importance of quality executive benefits administration. The future of executive benefits
Abstracts: Saving for the next catastrophe. Struggling with reserve discounting: regulators are divided over whether the industry has a realistic picture of the magnitude of future claims
Abstracts: Saving private pension insurance: An evaluation of current proposals to shore up the PBGC. The legislative process: a primer
Abstracts: Scandinavian market reflects consolidation in Europe. The objective is the object. Outsiders make inroads in Argentina's market
Abstracts: Scarce human resources pose daunting challenge. A look into the future -- 2000 and beyond. The next step: selling the sellers
Abstracts: Securities Reform Act - panacea or a problem? Protect your company from securities litigation. The price of regulation
Abstracts: Seeking their own level. Baby boomers, older generation need different life products. Level commissions can affect underwriting
Abstracts: Segment's prospects are slipping. Greater risks, uncertain rewards. Breaking away from rate regulation
Abstracts: Seizing the new pension opportunities. Fallout from the market conduct bomb penetrates life industry. Choosing right software can be a daunting task
Abstracts: Selecting and implementing a disease management program. Implementing health management: A case study. Direct reimbursement dental plans: not necessarily the smart choice for large employers
Abstracts: Selecting investment management systems. The ethereal electronic evolution. Looking back from 1997
Abstracts: Selecting long-term care for your employees. Compensation Strategies to Use Amid Organizational Change. Companies increase productivity and cut costs by integrating health benefits
Abstracts: Self-funded health insurance for small employers. Insurance fraud in America: a growing problem for everyone. Managed prescription programs: integrating retail and mail order services
Abstracts: Self-funded HMOs: a new managed care hybrid. Monitoring physician performance. The managed care value process: creating a successful health care strategy
Abstracts: Self-help for the author in you. The outsourcing partnership. Preserving the family business: a family limited partnership can help heirs maintain control of the business without the advantages of a trust
Abstracts: Sending the right message is good business sense. DOL announces relief from trust and audit requirements for cafeteria plans
Abstracts: Service attacks experience-rated reinsurance agreements. Deficiency reserve not allowed for nonlife SPDAs. Annuity policies for attorneys' fees result in income recognition
Abstracts: Setting up expert systems failure. Planning tomorrow's systems
Abstracts: Seventh Circuit offers guidance on partial plan termination. U.S. Supreme Court rules that ERISA preempts state-law remedies
Abstracts: Shady agent, viatical mix creates recipe for fraud. Managed care, indemnity seek healthy coexistence. Insurers' profits decline but premiums advance
Abstracts: Sharing the burden. ASO's feast of services. Getting flexible
Abstracts: Shed the sales hat; tell clients the facts. Industry needs to improve electronic sales methods. Life sales get a boost from work site selling
Abstracts: Shifting into high gear. News that's fit to cover. Securing museum coverage
Abstracts: Shifting into high gear. Tapping the knowledge of experts. Rate classification reform in New Jersey
Abstracts: Short-term confusion in the long-term care market. Annuity writers push harder into rivals' turf. Rates, bonds spur insurers' rebound
Abstracts: Should a salary reduction plan be funded through a mutual fund or a variable annuity? Supplemental executive retirement plans: 1996 survey report
Abstracts: Should you outsource health & welfare benefit services? The business case for integrated benefits. Purchasing for value in health care benefit management
Abstracts: Single premium immediate annuity payouts study. Single premium immediate annuity payouts. Fewer new life policies aid average policy size; whole life and term insurance policies accounted for 22.6% of the life/health industry's $78.18 billion premium income in 1995
Abstracts: Sleeping dogs can bite. A glass half full. Exclusive Agents: End of an Era?
Abstracts: Small agencies combine to deliver big benefits. Agents help insurers tap inner-city markets. How agents can escape disaster
Abstracts: Small companies, big values. Making programs perform
Abstracts: Smaller companies need employment protection. Solid underwriting can drive strategic alliances. Underwriting electronics firms can short-circuit the bottom line
Abstracts: Small group, big impact. Fee-based compensation - growing slowly. Putting your money where your heart is
Abstracts: Small group, big impact. The Insurer, Unisex and the Law. Affordable DP for the Small Insurer
Abstracts: Snaring the small alternative account. Getting ahead by sending out. Appeal of outsourcing grows as competition intensifies
Abstracts: Solid bottom line masks shifting fundamentals. Five-year outlook for life and annuity products. The challenge beyond consolidation
Abstracts: Some salty advice: batten down. Managing P/C health care costs. Ratings, regulation explored at insurer conferences
Abstracts: Something new under the sun. Estate planning begins with building a framework. CRTs make it easier to give and receive
Abstracts: Special delivery for PC agents: life products. Putting a new lid on cleanup costs. A love affair with rural agents
Abstracts: Spinning shells into gold. Karachi. Eastern Europe beckons
Abstracts: Split dollar techniques: getting out isn't so easy. Home delivery. Don't invite the tax man to estate settlements
Abstracts: Split-second headaches: insurers are hustling to keep up with business interruptions that occur at the speed of light
Abstracts: Squeeze on independent agents tightens, with no end in sight. Corporate changes: mergers, profit downturns fueled changes in 1994
Abstracts: Squeeze on independent agents tightens, with no end in sight. part 2 Is optical scanning essential for an agency?
Abstracts: Squeeze on profits. Sharing the liability: reversionary liability would allow assumption reinsurance to run smoothly by passing the policies, not the full responsibility
Abstracts: Squeeze play. Insurance plan verifies agent's important role. Keep yourself afloat in sea of information
Abstracts: State spending: the price of regulation plateaus. Genetic testing takes center stage. Trends moving toward Glass-Steagall repeal
Abstracts: Stating the case for health care reform; while the congressional debate on health care reform rages, the states craft plans that could provide a model for national policy
Abstracts: Stock, bond improvement boosts insurers' profits. Catastrophes force shift in focus of p/c insurers. Decline continues for top 100 insurers
Abstracts: Stock options revisited. Stock options: expected costs and the cost of reprising. Flextime revisited: The need for a resurgence of flextime
Abstracts: Storm clouds ahead for buyers. Executives speak out. No cause for optimism
Abstracts: Strategic compensation for not-for-profit health care institutions. Matching total compensation to employee needs
Abstracts: Strategic compensation: stock compensation: it's time for the truth or dare. The changing role of deferred compensation
Abstracts: Strategic health benefit planning: a guide for senior executives. Keeping private health information private under HIPAA
Abstracts: Strategic pay - an imperative for the 1990's.__ Pay and pricing strategy in a changing market. Team-based reward systems
Abstracts: Strategies for Effective Pharmacy Benefit Programs. Implementing a successful telework program. Employers use creative strategies to temper rising pharmacy benefit costs
Abstracts: Strength, strategy or both? Sharpening the focus on investment management. Interest rate swings inspire new strategies
Abstracts: Structured settlements: Panacea or placebo? Patenting coverages. An adjustment in attitude
Abstracts: Successful clusters built on solid agreements. Lead suits are about to become fashionable. The Power Behind the Pen
Abstracts: Supreme Court allows amendment of overfunded contributory defined benefit plan. Employer must notify participants of reduction in future benefit accrual
Abstracts: Supreme Court excludes pension assets from bankruptcy estate. More time to spend FSA funds
Abstracts: Supreme Court reverses Curtiss-Wright. Editor's view. Brochure constituted an ERISA plan
Abstracts: Supreme Court to review decision on right to sue HMOs under ERISA. Supreme Court rejects right to sue HMOs under ERISA but plan sponsors should not rest easy
Abstracts: Surplus notes have a role in capital planning strategies. The never-ending spiral
Abstracts: Survey: customer demands concern chief executives. Tax time can be opportunity time; insurance products can play a big role in tax planning strategies
Abstracts: Survey shows actuaries taking on new roles. Whole life dividend survey. Flexible-premium annuity policy survey
Abstracts: Survival of the fittest. Controlling our destiny. Allocating capital resources
Abstracts: Sydney. Opportunity in an unexpected place. Is in-house counsel a cost-effective move?
Abstracts: Systems reorganization: a winning strategy. What's the use? Empowering the user
Abstracts: Taking a broader view of retirement security. Economic security on the political agenda. Section 125 cafeteria plans: more attractive for purchasing supplemental life insurance
Abstracts: Taking insurance to the bank. Euro: a four-letter word for expensive. Adapting to the Web: a new survey says insurers fare poorly online, but better days are coming
Abstracts: Taking stock. Getting instant answers can be a slow process. Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Abstracts: Taking stock: how private companies can develop equity-based incentives. ESOPs for the private sector
Abstracts: Taking the air out of air bag concerns. Making investments in America's communities. New age in communication is challenging the industry
Abstracts: Taking the measure of Lloyd's. Denying insurance can be a form of abuse. Application management: outsourcing for success
Abstracts: Taking the next step in hurricane modeling. Cycles and crises. In defense of rate regulators
Abstracts: Taking the safe road with qualified plan investments: the investment policy statement. The more things change, the more they want the same
Abstracts: Talkin' about Generation X. New retirement products just in time for baby boomers. Insurers' ads shift focus 'Back to Basics.' (Life & Health Insurance Foundation for Education)
Abstracts: Tap the Internet's endless supply of information. Some click in cyberspace, others are still searching
Abstracts: Targeting mid-America. Large carriers cash in on small firms going global. The line is blurring in professional liability
Abstracts: Targeting mid-America. Reinsurers face onslaught of pollution claims. Insurers embrace alternative market
Abstracts: Targeting the retirement market anew. Why life insurance can't jump. Iowa offers new wrinkle in demutualization; several states are giving mutual insurance companies greater latitude in tapping capital
Abstracts: Targeting work culture leads to winning teams. Underwriters go high-tech. Pen computers help get property values right
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