Articles from Best's Review (March 1, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'Silent tort reform: federal agencies, not Congress, are capping liability for business.	Grier, Chris		1588
9 ways to share knowledge for gain: actuaries, underwriters, claims adjusters and others have different views of the insurance business. Successful companies will bring together these ideas and the people behind them.	Bondura, Mike		2266
A recipe for success: it's time to choose known alternatives to costly and slow underwriting.	George, Hank		507
A.M. best's stock indexes.			193
Ace: political risk reaches beyond headline violence.			392
Agree, yet disagree.	Cipinko, Scott J.		487
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.			110
Argonaut Group Inc.		Brief article	29
Axa Equitable Life Insurance Co. and its parent company have launched a new group to provide consultative services to Axa-related companies.			54
Bald is beautiful: insurance leaders are raising money to fight childhood cancer by shaving their heads on behalf of the St. Baldrick's Foundation.	Green, Meg		629
Bankers life wins important court cases.	Bernaski, Rebecca		130
Benfield.			58
Best's rating changes.			1633
Brown & Brown Inc.			48
By the numbers.			205
By the numbers: Americans and retirement.			183
Captive domiciles.			2090
Captive Island. Puerto Rico's long-time plan to become a haven for captive insurance companies is becoming a reality.	Cavanaugh, Bonnie Brewer		2222
Colleges score with State Farm.	Goch, Lynna		166
Combo deal: hybrid long-term-care/annuity products are life insurers' newest weapon in their battle for retirement assets.	Matso Lysiak, Fran		1281
Correction.		Correction notice	31
Data security bill loosens notification requirements.			533
Dutch insurer Aegon N.V. will team up with Sony Life Insurance Co. Ltd. to launch a Japanese life insurer with an eye on the annuity sector.			63
Even more predictable: ongoing underwriting innovations are improving risk assessment and agent-underwriter relationships.	Bennett, Jonathan		494
Expanding the family: birth of a Lloyd's syndicate is labor intensive.	O'Connor, Robert		740
Extending the reach: social networking could be a tool for insurers to reach out to baby boomers and Gen Xers.	Bisker, Jamie		562
Farmers insurance chief auto actuary dies in car accident.	De Martini, Tom		419
Fear and loathing: understanding the insurance policy shouldn't be a casino-style crapshoot for your customer.	Ewing, Lance		534
Florida reforms may cause market storm.	Barrett, Eleanor		800
For the long haul: understanding the regulations surrounding long-term-care insurance is the first step to successfully selling it.	Darras, Frank N.		595
Harleysville Insurance.			73
Have it both ways: commercial lines insurers must offer agents the choice of uploading new business from their agency management systems as well as submitting applications through the carrier's Web site.	Pighetti, Dorrie		1395
Hip hop message.			237
House calls: health insurers are responding to the demand for online medical consultations.	Chordas, Lori		2250
How sales can soar.	Whitney, Sally		412
Joe Plumeri, the chairman and chief executive officer of Willis Group Holdings was honored as the 2006 Insurance Leader of the Year.			103
John Hancock Annuities.	Chordas, Lori		94
Judge knocks down punitives tab in state farm Katrina case.	Lehmann, R.J.		361
Keeping your options open: directors and officers insurance can play a central role in a company's response to investigations into backdated stock options.	Green, John D.		1983
Liability coverage for providers.	Panko, Ron		64
Lifetime income on annuities.	Panko, Ron		51
Living benefits drive sales.	Panko, Ron		168
London-based Atrium Underwriting is getting involved in the space insurance industry with the creation of a specialist subsidiary.			66
Longevity benefit built into VA.	Panko, Ron		75
Making the leap: for these life producers, getting to the top required a major increase in sales, determination and skill.	Cavanaugh, Bonnie Brewer		2543
Managing the millennials: high performance and high maintenance, generation Y requires a different type of management.	Cunningham, Sharon		514
Marsh & McLennan Cos. has agreed to sell Putnam Investments to Great-West LifeCo INC.			30
Meetings.		Calendar	152
MetLife adds ID theft service.	Panko, Ron		84
Metlife Inc.			69
MetLife.			77
NAIC 2006 models could spark debate in legislatures.	Barrett, Eleanor		758
Northwestern mutual reaches $1 trillion of individual life insurance.	De Martini, Tom		298
Priscilla Brown named to newly created position at Lincoln Financial.	Bernaski, Rebecca		209
Prudential starts ROP life policy.	Panko, Ron		59
Rates under pressure: January renewals hint at a mild downturn for reinsurers in 2007.	Jones, Marc		2330
Satellite insurers facing $256 million loss.	Jones, Marc		226
Selling without pressure: insurance brokers have attracted an underserved segment of Americans to their Web sites for individually underwritten term life insurance by helping them objectively survey the market.	Panko, Ron		2107
Southern hospitality: Brazil cracks open its reinsurance market.	Jones, Marc		591
Specialty Underwriters' Alliance Inc., the parent company of SUA Insurance Co., will begin offering small employers workers' compensation through its wholesale partner agent, Appalachian Underwriters.			56
Study: securities fraud class-action filings dropped in '06.			306
Swett & Crawford, the largest U.S.-based wholesale insurance broker, has acquired New Jersey-based Oxbridge Insurance Associates Inc.			31
The lost promise of long-term care: insurers can repackage the benefits of long-term care into a more sellable product.	MacDonald, Robert W.		543
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies.	Chordas, Lori		103
Tornadoes hit Central Florida.	De Martini, Tom		114
Unleashing the power: a streamlined approach to data warehousing enables insurers to use claims data as a competitive advantage.	Spaeth, Dan		2232
USI Holdings Corp.			50
Watkins Insurance Group has acquired Texas-based insurance agency AIC-Sun Belt Group for an undisclosed amount.			40
WellPoint Inc.	Chordas, Lori		92
White Mountains Insurance Group.			70
Willis Group Holdings Ltd.			76
World-class contender: Lockton Companies' acquisition of the international business of Alexander Forbes has catapulted the private insurance broker into a top global player.	Dankwa, David		1797
XL Capital Ltd.			55