Articles from Best's Review (June 1, 2004)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
'Tag-along' suits help spark rise in fiduciary liability premiums.	Suszynski, Marie	Brief Article	156
6 steps to mission accomplish: avoid over-budget and incomplete IT projects by starting out with a focused list of business requirements.	Pighetti, Dorrie		1799
A picture of health: MetLife's database has spawned an illustrated guide to understanding and managing the health issues behind employee absenteeism.	Bowers, Barbara	Interview	2042
ACLI opposes proposal for annuity sales.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	201
Advice for sale: employers are expecting more service from their employee benefits professionals than ever before.	Green, Meg		2041
Aetna.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	67
Afni Insurance Services.	Chordas, Lori	Brief Article	60
AIG offers commercial coverage for public venues.	Goch, Lynna	Brief Article	143
AIG to protect anti-terrorism products, technologies.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	133
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	49
American International Group Inc.		Brief Article	60
Arthur J. Gallagher to acquire specialty advisory services.		Brief Article	67
Axa Distributors LLC.	Chordas, Lori	Brief Article	61
Best's rating changes.		Illustration	1815
Brown & Brown Inc.		Brief Article	63
By the numbers.		Brief Article	112
Cat modelers take separate paths in search of common standards.	Chordas, Lori		509
Conceive the inconceivable: the risk exposures are real, and so are the tools to manage them.	Rasmussen, Erik		730
Corporate giants to form pool to fill health-care gap.	Suszynski, Marie	Brief Article	255
Cozen O'Connor forms Canadian subrogation unit.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	41
Drilling down on fraud: auto insurers can attack the big problem of fraud by paying attention to the details hidden in claims.	Short, Skip		1399
Expansion in the European Union: new members diversify big trading bloc.			794
Fortis launches fund, gains banking licenses in China.			140
GE Commercial seeks to insure Masonic associations.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	56
Guide to best financial strength ratings.		Illustration	842
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.		Brief Article	72
Hartford targets midsize financial services companies.	Goch, Lynna		309
Hartford: D&O underwriters demand more.	Green, Meg		445
Health Net Life Insurance Co.	Chordas, Lori	Brief Article	77
In the Spotlight *.		Letter to the Editor	450
Insuring hope: insurance for individuals with AIDS in Africa is hard to come by, but carriers are making changes to help the millions infected with the disease.	Chordas, Lori		3959
Liberty Mutual and Axa forge U.S.-Euro alliance.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	242
Lloyd's chairman says insurers must focus on profitable business.	Suszynski, Marie	Interview	643
MassMutual.	Chordas, Lori	Brief Article	48
MBIA Inc.		Brief Article	23
MBIA Insurance Corp.		Brief Article	27
Meetings.		Calendar	143
Most home-based businesses lack separate insurance coverage.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	182
NAS offers HIPAA protector coverage.	Goch, Lynna		110
Nationwide Insurance launches $27 million advertising campaign.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	273
New RMS model outlines probabilities for 10 cat risks.	Suszynski, Marie	Brief Article	105
Old cat--new tricks: creative new uses for catastrophe bonds help generate more capital, deals and investors.	Bowers, Barbara		4147
Oxford expanding Medicare offerings in northeast.		Brief Article	120
Patents pending: insurers no longer enjoy open season on the product innovations of competitors.	Bowers, Barbara		3433
Preparing for the fall: risk managers usher in new soft market.	Suszynski, Marie		565
Principal to sell mortgage business to Citigroup for $1.26b.	Suszynski, Marie	Brief Article	210
Quotesmith.com completes acquisition of Life Quotes Inc.		Brief Article	87
Safeco sells wealth manager to Mellon Financial Corp.		Brief Article	42
Saturday night dangerous time for teen drivers.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	300
Stressing the positives: more Americans view insurers favorably, but there's still dissatisfaction over the use of credit in auto insurance.	Stewart, Gordon		760
Survey: poor service leads many clients to switch.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	111
Surviving the squeeze: managing general underwriters must travel the tough road back to pricing accounts accurately and profitably.	Smith, Ross		699
Talking in code: will a mandate to update the national medical coding system help health-care providers and minimize the coder shortage--or add significant costs for insurers and providers without benefits?	Chordas, Lori		2303
Terror, cat risks prompt AIR to model property exposures.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	118
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	65
The Principal Financial Group.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	47
The real thing: distinguishing good models from bad ones relies on some rules of thumb.	Panning, William H.		744
Time in a bottle: Hardware Mutual preserved the present and predicted the future 50 years ago.	Bowers, Barbara		539
To sue or not to sue.	Whitney, Sally		400
Tort reform: more than damage caps: arbitration, class actions and loss control are important pieces of a very complex puzzle.	Noonan, Brendan	Cover Story	5808
Twin towers insured loss estimate drops.	Lehmann, R.J.	Brief Article	243
Undercover agents: life insurance companies have finally heard the consumer and are bringing understandable, less costly and appealing products to market.	Verzone, Ronald D.		730
UnitedHealthcare of Kentucky Ltd.		Brief Article	62
Unlocking value: outsourcing is an important tool to help insurers manage claims.	Weiss, Jeffrey G.		735
Weaving compensation into the whole: Enterprise Incentive Management can help insurers influence diverse distribution channels and gain an overview of channels, products and markets.	Johnston, Chuck		1725
Who shot equitable life? When one of the United Kingdom's most respected insurance companies collapsed, observers blamed managers, auditors, regulators and the government, but who is most at fault?	O'Connor, Robert		2588
Willis Group Holdings Ltd.		Brief Article	40
Winning small: insurers that pressure agencies to increase their books of business may be initiating their own demise.	Burand, Chris		907
XL Capital skips acquisition route, enters U.S. primary casualty market.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	224
Zurich's Schiro seeks to lessen fluctuation of industry's cycles.	Green, Meg	Brief Article	191