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

Title	Author	Type	Words
A light touch: when insurance issues land on the Treasury Department's doorstep, Wayne Abernathy is there to pick them up. (Regulation: The Big Picture).	Kelly, Dennis	Interview	1434
A new generation of care: The growth of consumer-directed health plans may be the answer to picking up managed care's unfinished agenda. (Life/Health: Selling Insight).	Knott, David		740
AgentSecure. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	77
Allianz writes private coverage for Indian film industry. (Companies).		Brief Article	192
Allstate Financial launches network for producers. (Technology: Technology Notes).		Brief Article	237
Annuity writers downplay fears over Bush proposals. (Briefing).	Panko, Ron		564
Arch Insurance Group. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	30
Best's rating changes. (Ratings).		Illustration	1757
By the numbers. (Briefing).		Brief Article	114
Canadian insurer buys Mid-State Surety Corp. (Companies).		Brief Article	141
CD-Rom. (Resources).		Brief Article	42
Chubb's cybersecurity targets financial institutions. (Property/Casualty: Marketplace).		Brief Article	104
Comment.		Letter to the Editor	437
Correction.		Correction Notice	22
Creative solutions: alternative resources can help companies deal with obsolete technology manage costs and achieve growth. (Technology: Technology Insight).	Chang, Richard A.		716
Doing the splits: health insurers can improve profitability by dividing marketing, sales and service dollars among the most productive relationships. (Life/Health: Profitability).	Isaacman, Andrew		1244
E-sign here: many insurers have adopted a wait-and-see stance toward e-signatures because of uncertainty about compliance and lack of case law. (Technology: E-Signatures).	Chordas, Lori		3351
Emergency repairs: A deputy California insurance commissioner counts success in companies rescued--and plays a national role in improving insurance accounting standards. (Regulation: The Big Picture).	Green, Meg		1517
Expert: D&O market to stay turbulent in 2003. (Property/Casualty: Loss/Risk Management Notes).		Brief Article	150
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	49
Getting the price right: savvy personal lines writers are slicing the market into segments to price risk more accurately. (Property/Casualty: Pricing).	Green, Meg		4650
Getting to horizontal: The 20th-century life underwriter often slowed down the process of an application or stopped it altogether. The new underwriter will become more of a team player. (Life/Health: Underwriting Insight).	George, Hank		702
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	41
HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	73
Health insurers face the heat. (Briefing).	Suszynski, Marie		580
Hired help: insurers are expected to embrace third-party asset management more fully. (Industry Strategies: Asset Management).	Sbaschnig, Richard		1505
Humana first to accept HIPAA standard claims transactions. (Technology: Technology Notes).		Brief Article	177
Insurers sit on sidelines during Super Bowl ad blitz. (Property/Casualty: Marketplace).			398
Interest builds for immediate variable annuities. (Life/Health: Marketplace).		Brief Article	136
International Insurance Regulation: Current and Proposed Regulation Explained. (Books).		Brief Article	48
Legacy: The History of Separately Managed Accounts. (Books).		Brief Article	38
Letting go: insurers increasingly are turning away from direct ownership of real estate. (Industry Strategies: Asset Management).	Bowers, Barbara		2750
Managed choice: health insurers are responding to consumer demand for more options with tiered pricing for doctors and hospitals patterned after pharmaceutical pricing plans. (Life/Health: Managed Care).	Green, Meg		3657
Managed-account industry counts more than 330,000 new investors. (Life/Health: Marketplace).		Brief Article	174
Meetings.		Calendar	140
Mining a rich vein: low market penetration offers insurers with conservative products and strict underwriting a chance for profit in individual disability-income insurance. (Life/Health: Disability).	Castillo, Andronico L.		1372
Minnesota Life Insurance Co. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	43
Mony Life Insurance Company of America. (New Products and Services).		Brief Article	52
Mt. Washington Assurance Corp. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	40
Open road: technology engineers are pursuing newer and better ways to implement straight-through processing on the web. Standards make it possible. (Technology: Standards).	Panko, Ron	Industry Overview	2423
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. (New Products and Services).		Brief Article	40
Penn Treaty to resume selling LTC policies in Illinois. (Companies).		Brief Article	83
Poll: most American workers favor private social security accounts. (Life/Health: Marketplace).		Brief Article	153
Professional associations look to hire management companies, avoid claims. (Property/Casualty: Loss/Risk Management Notes).		Brief Article	192
Quiet clout: much of the power in regulating and governing the insurance industry belongs to those who've never won an election or a cabinet-level appointment. (Regulation: The Big Picture).	Noonan, Brendan		336
RMS beefs up international, U.S. temperature data. (Property/Casualty: Loss/Risk Management Notes).		Brief Article	59
Sapiens International Corp. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	64
Savings proposals seen as opportunity for insurers. (Briefing).	Kelly, Dennis		577
SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Co. (New Products and Services).		Brief Article	48
Singular expertise: Robert Gordon is a rare breed--an insurance expert on Capitol Hill. (Regulation: The Big Picture).	Kelly, Dennis		659
Staying power: life insurers value fairness and institutional memory in government, traits that Susan Nash provides. (Regulation: The Big Picture).	Panko, Ron		1437
Study: scientists re-evaluate New Madrid earthquake risk. (Property/Casualty: Loss/Risk Management Notes).		Brief Article	200
Taking a punch: insurers never anticipated a bear market so long and deep that it would ravage their variable-products businesses--and cause them to rethink how they conduct them. (Life/Health: Annuities).	Panko, Ron		2283
Taking the time: although insurers say they haven't changed their underwriting standards, they are investing more time and money to add staff, improve technology and extend research. (Property/Casualty: Underwriting).	Bowers, Barbara		1566
Tapping into the source. (Editor's Prologue).	Whitney, Sally		371
Terror on the seas: although terrorism is growing as a risk for marine insurers, they are still focusing on the same underwriting factors--geography, type of cargo and packaging. (Property/Casualty: War Risk).	Gorski, Lorraine		2215
The Bank Insurance and Securities Association. (Web News You Can Use).		Brief Article	57
The captive solution: there are real advantages for both lenders and mortgage insurers that choose to be involved in captives. (Property/Casualty: Loss/Risk Management Insight).	Kessinger, Ron		710
The hartford offers claims help. (Property/Casualty: Marketplace).		Brief Article	101
The knowledge gap: many companies face an education gap in managing workers' compensation cases. (Property/Casualty: Loss/Risk Management Notes).	Blades, Judy		754
The news you need when you want it: The insurance industry's most comprehensive source for news-real-time, daily, weekly and monthly--just got better. (Reader Services).		Brief Article	190
The Regence Group. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	44
The regulatory web. (Regulation: The Big Picture).		Directory	721
Training course. (Resources).		Brief Article	29
True value: few insurers meet the challenge of making a profit through underwriting prowess and investment returns--but the ones who do, share interesting characteristics. (Property/Casualty: Profitability).	Pieroni, William N.		2190
Zurich Life. (People in Insurance).		Brief Article	48