Articles from Best's Review (July 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A blurry line: health insurers say their wellness programs help keep people healthy. Critics call it practicing medicine.	Lysiak, Fran Matso		1942
A.M. best's stock indexes: four weeks ended June 6, 2008 (Dec. 31, 2004 =1,000.00).			428
Aetna Inc.		Brief article	82
Aflac for business.	Chordas, Lori	Brief article	192
American International Group Inc.		Brief article	70
Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co.		Brief article	54
Aon Re Global.		Brief article	81
Arch Worldwide Insurance Group.		Brief article	70
Argo Group US and First Insurance Co. of Hawaii have formed a partnership to offer hurricane coverage to First Insurance homeowners and dwelling fire policyholders.		Brief article	68
Assurant Inc.			15
At a glance: work-site marketing.		Brief article	192
Auto claims drop on gas hikes.	Hemenway, Chad	Brief article	203
Aviva outlines plans for expansion.	Pilla, David		185
Aviva USA is No. 1 seller of equity-indexed annuities.	Lysiak, Fran Matso	Brief article	269
Benfield Group.		Brief article	35
Benfield.		Brief article	60
Best refutes criticism.	Fry, Kate	Brief article	118
Best's review's: top global insurance brokers.			4556
Brian Duperreault.		Brief article	35
Brit Insurance Holdings Plc.		Brief article	219
Career wise.	Moran, Tom		298
Catlin Insurance Co. (U.K.) LTD.		Brief article	71
Climate change measure advances.	Carr, Sean P.		359
Connecticut is taken 'captive'.	Carr, Sean P.	Brief article	170
Data-breach losses returned.		Brief article	88
Divine designs: insurers now have a guide to help appraise high-value stained glass.	Chordas, Lori		579
Experience required: by keeping it real, agents can outperform those faceless insurance marketers on the Web.	Steers, Sharon		550
Fair-value reporting: if you are an insurance accounting executive, be careful what you wish for.	Stein, Robert	Column	535
Falling stars: a string of launch failures has brought the high-flying satellite insurance market back to Earth.	Panko, Ron		1968
Folks America Re Solutions, a unit of White Mountains Re Ltd.		Brief article	82
General Reinsurance Corp.			68
Golden Eagle Insurance.		Brief article	95
Gone tomorrow: as broker consolidation accelerates smaller offices are disappearing.	Ackermann, Alyn		1079
Growth factors: U.S. work-site sales have increased 150% in the past 10 years.	Lowerre, Gil; Brazzell, Bonnie		823
Hanover offers commercial policy.		Brief article	82
Health insurers turn cautious.		Brief article	50
Hurricane season: additional threats.		Brief article	58
Insurance jobs.		Brief article	263
Insurers fight expansion of market conduct program.	Morrison, John		414
Jardine Lloyd Thompson.		Brief article	27
Liberty Mutual Group.		Brief article	55
Life preservers: financial advisers should take another look at guaranteed no-lapse products.	Dempsey, Kay I.		572
Marsh & McLennan Cos.			17
Marsh.			23
Max Specialty Insurance Co. has acquired Commercial Guaranty Casualty Insurance Co., a licensed insurance entity owned by Travelers Group that has been in runoff since 2002.		Brief article	45
Maxum Specialty Insurance Group.		Brief article	92
Med-mal profits continue to impress.		Brief article	42
Meetings.		Calendar	97
Metlife Inc.		Brief article	77
Midwest slammed.	Sanders, Kevin	Brief article	70
NAIC may support 'insurance expert' Bill.	Lehmann, R.J.	Brief article	162
New AIG platform works with AMS.		Brief article	90
New Horizons: insurers look at ways to embrace social networking as it goes mobile.	Ouimette, Gates	Column	587
Numbers and risk: the subprime crisis shows enterprise risk management only works as well as the managers who apply it.	Panning, William H.		535
On the record: Health insurance leaders explain why they're offering employers and members integrated packages of services.			317
Paul Sampson has resigned as president and chief executive officer of AXA Life Japan and AXA Japan Holding.		Brief article	78
Pemco Insurance recently broke out its Chainsaw.		Brief article	106
Phoenix debuts flat-fee VA.		Brief article	77
Prudential Financial Inc.'s chief executive officer, John Strangfeld, has succeeded Arthur F. Ryan as company chairman.		Brief article	72
Questions over impact of Solvency II.	Jones, March	Brief article	202
Rating actions.			789
Re-opening the (Red) umbrella.		Brief article	151
Recipe for disaster: with a global supply chain, the U.S. food industry faces higher risks of contamination, interference and costly litigation.	Cavanaugh, Bonnie Brewer		2170
RMS unveils cat operation.		Brief article	130
Robert Willumstad replaces Martin Sullivan as AIG's CEO.	Pilla, David	Brief article	239
SAMPO.		Brief article	82
Schwartz succeeds Jerome Atkinson, the New York-based insurance company's executive vice president who retires July 1.			55
SCOR.		Brief article	41
Standing the test of time: forty-eight property/casualty insurers and 15 life/health insurers have maintained a Best's Financial Strength Rating of A or higher for at least 75 years.		Cover story	6831
Staying dry amid a torrent of claims: insurers must consider practical measures now to prepare for the coming storm related to the subprime crisis.	Rutkin, Alan S.	Column	538
Streamlining ITV processes.			622
Success stories.	Goch, Lynna	Editorial	373
Taking cover: directors and officers respond to the growing threat of cyber attacks.	Chordas, Lori		2554
The 16 original member governments of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility renewed their 2008 policies in time for hurricane season.		Brief article	54
The benefits of flexibility: alternative risk mechanisms help insurers and reinsurers withstand greater risks.	Stalker, Timothy W.; Kurtis, Michael J.		1430
The non-paper chase: insurance departments nationwide are doing away with paper financial filings and urging both insurers and users to log on instead.	Cavanaugh, Bonnie Brewer		2190
Thomas F. Motamed leaving Chubb to head CNA financial.	Ackermann, Alyn	Brief article	170
Timing is everything: under emerging court rules, insurers' digital content must be meticulously maintained to be used as evidence.	Glassey, T.S.		1619
Top 200 life/health writers: admitted assets for the total life/health industry cross $5 billion mark.		Statistical table	2130
Top 200 property/casualty writers.		Statistical table	1977
Well-known risk modeler Karen Clark has received a special award certificate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for her work with IPCC that led to the agency sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.		Brief article	70
What floats their boat? Marine insurance needs to evolve to lure aboard Generation Y.	Bennett, Jonathan		572
Willis Group spends $1.7b, buys Hilb Rogal & Hobbs.	Ackermann, Alyn	Brief article	284
Worth repeating.	Howe, Robert F.	Brief article	36