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

Title	Author	Type	Words
A helping hand: as insurers work hard to make sure everything is ready to comply with various regulations, their IT departments also are playing a key role in meeting the challenge.	Chordas, Lori		2164
Ace Westchester enters environmental risk market.	Green, Mag	Brief Article	62
Ace.		Brief Article	43
Adjusting the definition: a court ruling maintains that a literal interpretation of the total disability clause would defeat the very purpose of own-occupation disability insurance.	Darras, Frank N.		775
Affiliated FM adds All-Risk Manufacturing policy.	Goch, Lynna	Brief Article	85
Agency evolution: today's bigger agencies face an array of challenges ranging from cost to recruitment.	Cunningham, Sharon		776
AIG.		Brief Article	100
Allstate Corp. estimates after-tax cat loss at $1.06b.		Brief Article	237
American Superior: 4th storm one too many.		Brief Article	188
An apple for the agent: insurers agents find urban markets take well to insurance education.	Berg, Emmett		598
Annuity patrol: regulators want new rules to protect investors from predatory sales of variable annuities. But insurers say the new rules are unnecessary and the approach is neither efficient nor sensible.	Green, Meg		2407
Anthem annual report wins gold in competition.		Brief Article	150
Arch.		Brief Article	74
Armed for action: independent agents in many states have mounted successful grass-roots campaigns to push for new laws and regulations.	Bowers, Barbara		3896
Aspen expanding in U.S.	Green, Mag	Brief Article	40
Axis Capital.		Brief Article	57
Be prepared: insurers need ways to monitor their operations and results so they don't fall apart amid the clamor for lower prices and better terms that comes with a soft market.	Duffy, Tom		1882
Best's rating changes.			1737
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina .	Chordas, Lori	Brief Article	90
Brand touts independent agents.	Goch, Lynna	Brief Article	253
Building better health plans: spending more time on research before launching a new health plan can lead to greater innovation and reduce expensive rework.	Wofford, Martha		733
Building competition in auto crash parts.			738
Call to focus: insurers focus on core insurance improvement to operate effectively and become attractive acquisition targets.	Pieroni, Bill		691
Chubb covers life sciences property/casualty risks.	Goch, Lynna	Brief Article	124
Coming up roses: sales of voluntary insurance products at the work site continue to grow.	Lowerre, Gil		1408
Committing to the Hispanic Market.	Molina, Jorge	Letter to the Editor	530
Coventry to purchase first health in $1.8b deal.	Ostermiller, Marilyn	Brief Article	52
Crash tests yield data, safer autos.			793
Easing the way: the calculation of residential replacement value and management of risk in real time are tasks for new technology tools.	Bowers, Barbara		1669
Excess and surplus lines premium jumps 28% in 2003.		Brief Article	92
Four hurricanes likely to put pressure on Florida property insurance rates.		Brief Article	232
Hannover Re.		Brief Article	74
Hartford financial launches new D&O protection.	Green, Mag	Brief Article	49
Heading for the hills.	Whitney, Sally	Editorial	394
Home of the brave: even before four hurricanes hit Florida this year, homeowners insurers had tightened their underwriting along the coastline, opening the market to excess and surplus writers and state-run pools.	Green, Meg		4164
Homeowners multiple peril, top writers by state--2003.		Illustration	1774
Insureds moving to protect their directors and officers.	Green, Mag		479
Japanese, U.S. officials begin talks on life products.		Brief Article	279
John Hancock launched a new long-term-care insurance program called Corporate Solutions for the small business market to help provide individual long-term-care coverage at the worksite in the way that best suits employers' and employees' needs.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	87
John Hancock.	Chordas, Lori	Brief Article	53
Liberty Mutual's ads grab honors.	Goch, Lynna	Brief Article	205
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	61
Meetings.		Calendar	153
Munich Re.		Brief Article	61
Online customers report insurers improved service.	Chordas, Lori		501
People in insurance.			363
Percentage of premiums surplus vs. commercial lines.		Illustration	60
Primed for growth: health savings accounts, which offer many advantages over other consumer-driven health plans, are likely to gain momentum in 2005.	Ripperger, Jerry L.		721
Probing to prevent loss: through nonprofit groups it helped form, the insurance industry has taken public its mission to build a safer world.	Panko, Ron		900
RenaissanceRe.		Brief Article	47
Safeco executives outline their roles in company's new leadership structure.		Brief Article	285
Safeco.		Brief Article	102
Scor Group.		Brief Article	84
Securian Retirement Services.	Chordas, Lori	Brief Article	78
Segueing into segments: certain marketplace realities of pricing, if ignored, could run a micro-segmentation juggernaut aground.	McShea, Chris		739
Shedding excess weight: Medicare's decision to consider obesity an illness could mean cost savings for insurers--eventually.	Chordas, Lori		2193
Spitzer sues broker Marsh, alleges corruption in insurance industry.	Lehmann, R.J.		700
St. Paul Travelers.		Brief Article	127
Suit targets Allstate's rehire moratorium.	Lehmann, R.J.	Brief Article	167
Suiting up: when the top securities class-action law firm becomes two firms, D&O insurers could take a double hit.	Lysiak, Fran Matso		3455
Supreme Court puts state farm case to rest.	Lehman, R.J.		599
Survey: Canada and U.S. life industry expected to adopt accounting standard.	Panko, Ron	Brief Article	217
Swiss Re.		Brief Article	55
The surviving few: only a handful of the online insurance-broker pioneers remain in a market that many left when the dot-com boom faded.	Chordas, Lori		2820
The view from Rendez-Vous: amid the maneuvering, the Monte Carlo gathering focused on hurricanes, ratings and discipline.	O'Connor, Robert		1696
Thinking prevention: too often agents, brokers and even risk managers will use loss prevention only as an afterthought.	Ewing, Lance		799
Tracking and preventing losses in homes, businesses.			704
Using her noodle: Kathryn Emmerson brings the knowledge of 30 years as a broker to the dot-com realm.	Bowers, Barbara		788
Willis covers homes with unique risks.	Green, Mag	Brief Article	82
XN Holdings Inc.	Chordas, Lori	Brief Article	37