Articles from Best's Review (January 1, 2003)

Title	Author	Type	Words
2002: insurers deal with a new crisis, old issues. (Industry Strategies).			5660
A formula for retirement. (Comment).			409
Aetna Inc. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	53
After research, Liberty Mutual rebrands its Property division. (Property/Casualty).		Brief Article	202
AIR debuts new models for Asia-Pacific region. (Property/Casualty).		Brief Article	247
Arthur J. Gallagher buys New Orleans agency. (Companies).		Brief Article	50
Best's Rating Changes. (Ratings).			3751
By the numbers. (Briefing).			363
Cerulli urges reassessment for life insurance industry. (Life/Health).		Brief Article	165
Changing the answers: the gap between the risk we are taking and the risk we can afford to take may have grown. (Property/Casualty).	Panning, William H.		783
Common ground: negotiations on facultative reinsurance have always been time consuming and labor intensive, but technology is making the process easier. (Technology).	Panko, Ron		3011
Cutting IT can be costly: reducing the budgets for information technology programs will not save companies money in the long run. (Technology).	Pieroni, William N.		697
Exit Lines: Dean R. O'Hare recently stepped down as Chubb's chairman, leaving behind a legacy of global expansion and underwriting profits. (Property/Casualty).	Ostermiller, Marilyn		1143
Expenses due to workplace violence now covered. (Property/Casualty).		Brief Article	208
Facing the tough questions: small-business owners increasingly are asking why their premiums keep rising. (Property/Casualty).	Illion, Larry		743
GE Employers Reinsurance. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	62
GE's new 'sweepstakes' campaign generates leads. (Life/Health).		Brief Article	130
Getting to the root of the problem: travelers' state-of-the-art high-tech laboratory enables experts to find the causes of major losses and fraud. (Property/Casualty).	Bowers, Barbara		3626
Growing concerns. (Editor's prologue).	Whitney, Sally	Brief Article	299
Hartford Financial Services Group. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	56
Health insurance, class actions top state regulators' agenda. (Briefing).		Brief Article	273
Hooray for the Award Recipient. (Comment).		Brief Article	52
In the Spotlight *. (Comment).		Brief Article	31
Index to 2002 Best's Review Articles.			7111
ING completes $1 billion debt sale to U.S., Asian investors. (Companies).		Brief Article	82
Inreon gains ACORD certification, will simplify transfer of data. (Technology).		Brief Article	191
Insurance services come with a slurpee on the side. (Property/Casualty).		Brief Article	235
Learning through losses: analyzing an account after a large claim can lead to improved underwriting, prevention of more losses and better claims handling. (Property/Casualty).	Egan, Michael P.		771
Life Insurance Company of America. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	124
Managing between a rock and a hard market. (Cover Story).			1958
Marine lines enjoy strong pricing. (Briefing).	Pilla, David		663
Marketers investigate ethnographic research. (Property/Casualty).		Brief Article	230
Meemic shareholders' vote OKs ProAssurance merger. (Companies).		Brief Article	132
Meetings.		Brief Article	147
NAIC picks leaders for 2003. (Briefing).		Brief Article	253
NAIC wants writers to expand privacy notice. (Briefing).		Brief Article	112
NAIC's own Insurance costs rise 25%. (Briefing).		Brief Article	103
New products and services. (Life/Health).		Brief Article	79
No surprises: insurers should expand scenario testing to help them understand and manage the expected volatility of future earnings. (Life/Health).	Gibson, Jack		665
Opting out: as more insurers leave the Medicare+Choice marketplace because of low reimbursement rates, a new option for the federal program will be pilot tested. (Life/Health).	Green, Meg		2268
People to watch in 2003. (Industry Strategies).			2194
Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	45
Program nails savings for roofers. (Property/Casualty).		Brief Article	201
QuickQuote.com. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	27
Restoring confidence: over time, consistent appropriate behavior will slowly restore investor trust in financial institutions. (Life/Health).	Stein, Robert W.		724
Resuscitating credit life: banks' new debt-protection products have cut into the credit insurance market, but credit insurers are finding ways to cope. (Life/Health).	Panko, Ron		2709
Survey: life insurers want to sell more on internet. (Technology).		Brief Article	224
The 2002 Employee Benefits Trend Survey by MetLife. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	55
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	64
The bumpy route to independence: when insurers divest of their captive agents, custody battles and lawsuits can follow. (Industry Strategies).	Bowers, Barbara		3378
The Hartford Financial Services Group. (Life/Health).		Brief Article	80
The Internal Revenue Service. (Life/Health).		Brief Article	92
The write impression: sloppy, murky writing can cost insurers millions in lost productivity and expose them to bad-faith lawsuits.	Blake, Gary		1255
TIAA-CREF pays commissions. (Life/Health).		Brief Article	120
Wedding bells ring sales: the growing cost of getting married is creating a market for wedding insurance. (Property/Casualty).	Gorski, Lorraine		1915
Wellpoint to acquire Dental and Vision provider. (Companies).		Brief Article	101
White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	105