Title  |
Author |
Type |
Words |
| A bipartisan Senate bill. |
|
Brief article |
71 |
| A heavy burden. |
Goch, Lynna |
Editorial |
318 |
| A weighty issues: increasing obesity is placing a heavy burden on U.S. workers' compensation claims. |
Green, Meg |
Cover story |
1691 |
| A.M. best's stock indexes. |
|
Statistical table |
421 |
| ACLI, LISA favor different approaches to regulating STOLI. |
|
Brief article |
179 |
| Aegon N.V. |
|
Brief article |
65 |
| Aetna opens provider site. |
|
Brief article |
87 |
| Alice Molasky-Arman, Nevada's longest-serving insurance commissioner, will retire Sept. 7 after serving 13 years. |
|
Brief article |
48 |
| Allianz S.E. reached terms with Turkish conglomerate Koc Holding to raise its stakes in two insurance units controlled by Koc. |
|
Brief article |
98 |
| American International Group Inc. |
|
Brief article |
120 |
| AON Corp. |
|
Brief article |
77 |
| AON Re Global. |
|
Brief article |
68 |
| APIW Insurance Woman of the Year: industry needs to attract new talent. |
Ackermann, Alyn |
Brief article |
270 |
| At the old ball game. |
|
|
84 |
| Axa S.A. names Rivet as CEO of insurance operations in U.K. |
Pilla, David |
Brief article |
194 |
| Back in the black. |
|
Brief article |
83 |
| Back to the future: Vision University teaches managing general agents to anticipate what's beyond the next bend. |
Cavanaugh, Bonnie Brewer |
|
575 |
| Bank on it: UnitedHealth Group set up its own bank to administer members' HSAs. Will more plans follow suit? |
Chordas, Lori |
|
1957 |
| Beazley offers D&O product. |
|
Brief article |
129 |
| Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Cos. |
|
Brief article |
35 |
| Best's Review's Annual Corporate Changes 2007: all companies listed are U.S. life/health or property/casualty insurers. Changes occurred in 2007, unless otherwise indicated. |
|
Statistical table |
6783 |
| Brit Insurance Holdings Plc. |
|
Brief article |
40 |
| Broker Willis Group. |
|
Brief article |
52 |
| Career wise. |
Mitchell, Todd |
|
353 |
| Caught in the rain 2007's record floods in Britain and Australia cause about $7 billion in insured losses. |
Jones, Marc |
Report |
1143 |
| China quake may trigger insured losses of $1b. |
Jones, Marc |
Report |
338 |
| Creditworthiness: the A.M. best way. |
|
Brief article |
45 |
| Cultural knowledge opens Hispanics' doors. |
|
Brief article |
213 |
| Cyclone Nargis, which hit Myanmar May 3, is a wake-up call to insurers doing business in areas where risks are not well-understood, said Domenico del Re, senior model manager at Risk Management Solutions. |
|
|
70 |
| Demographer: obesity trends may reverse longevity gains. |
|
Brief article |
199 |
| E-commerce calls, but no one's home: the life industry should harness technology to save money and improve efficiency. |
MacDonald, Robert W. |
|
512 |
| Event coverage of the 2008 Life Insurance Conference & Retirement Industry Conference. |
|
Conference news |
18 |
| Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Ltd. said it will acquire a stake in Cyprus-based specialty reinsurer Alliance International Reinsurance Public Co. Ltd. |
|
Brief article |
55 |
| Fortis. |
|
Brief article |
41 |
| Gallagher sees an increase in mergers and acquisitions. |
Ackermann, Alyn |
Brief article |
250 |
| German reinsurer Munich Re has completed its $1.3 billion acquisition of Ohio-based specialty insurer Midland Co. |
|
|
60 |
| Get started: in a flattening world, U.S. insurers must gear up for new international standards for insurance contract accounting. |
Arthur, Phil D.; Griffith, Kevin |
|
1121 |
| Grand theft auto. |
|
Statistical table |
86 |
| Great American Insurance Group. |
|
Brief article |
43 |
| Hartford's 401(k) has income option. |
|
Brief article |
79 |
| HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. |
|
Brief article |
84 |
| Health plans' HSA enrollment up. |
Lehmann, R.J. |
Brief article |
236 |
| High on PPA: insurers find much to like about the 2006 Pension Protection Act following its first full year of implementation. |
Panko, Ron |
|
1662 |
| Home team: convert the replacement cost-estimating process from a source of friction with the homeowner into a positive, relationship-building experience. |
Smith, Charles T. |
|
1609 |
| Honey, I shrunk our retirement benefits: working into the golden years might not work out as planned. |
Fishbein, Robert |
|
499 |
| Impassioned pleas. |
|
Brief article |
74 |
| Index Annuity goes Global. |
|
Brief article |
108 |
| Individual annuity sales have best-ever year. |
|
Statistical table |
322 |
| Insurance jobs. |
|
Brief article |
253 |
| Insurers lose out to dishonest brokers. |
Fry, Kate |
Brief article |
121 |
| Insurers urged to better understand dynamics of future wealth transfer. |
|
Brief article |
171 |
| Is caution gone with the wind? The lack of major cat losses in recent years is increasing appetites for coastal business and decreasing underwriting standards. |
Egan, Michael R. |
|
548 |
| Learn more. |
|
List |
74 |
| Legislation bars use of genetic data. |
Lehmann, R.J. |
Brief article |
173 |
| Liberty Mutual buys Safeco, widens reach to west coast. |
Hemenway, Chad |
|
487 |
| Lloyd's focuses on both U.S. and emerging markets. |
Dankwa, David |
Brief article |
243 |
| Lloyd's North America. |
|
Brief article |
66 |
| Lockton CEO: market offers brokers chance to create client value. |
Dankwa, David |
Brief article |
125 |
| Lockton Cos. |
|
Brief article |
43 |
| Major European reinsurers still caught in financial swirl. |
Pilla, David |
Brief article |
356 |
| Making dating connections. |
Chordas, Lori |
Brief article |
233 |
| Marriage counseling: look for signs to determine if a prospective tech vendor is a dream or a nightmare. |
Ceccon, Andrew |
|
561 |
| Meeting demands: improving technology is among the ways insurers can try to outperform the market. |
Del Santo, John |
|
529 |
| Meetings. |
|
Calendar |
104 |
| Montpelier Re. |
|
Brief article |
134 |
| Mutual of America Life Insurance Co. |
|
Brief article |
43 |
| New York Life Insurance Worldwide Ltd. |
|
Brief article |
86 |
| On message: Web-based marketing portals help agents connect with customers. |
Conner, Denise |
|
1472 |
| Online features to help women. |
|
Brief article |
83 |
| Overseas danger for smaller firms. |
|
Brief article |
169 |
| Paris Re America Insurance Co. |
|
Brief article |
64 |
| Quote/Unquote. |
|
Quotation |
55 |
| Rating actions. |
|
|
1200 |
| Record oil prices and surging trade means higher premiums and increased claims costs for maritime insurers, according to Alistair Groom, CEO of London-based Charles Taylor & Co. Ltd. |
|
Brief article |
73 |
| RJ Kiln & Co. |
|
Brief article |
105 |
| Scottish Re has retained two investment banks to explore the potential sale of its U.S. and international life reinsurance businesses. |
|
Brief article |
83 |
| Shareholders approved the merger of SCPIE Holdings Inc. with Doctors Co. by a nearly two-to-one majority, the company said. |
|
Brief article |
80 |
| Skills, discipline required to enter large-case market. |
|
Brief article |
212 |
| Solid finish to 2007. |
|
Brief article |
210 |
| Solving the puzzle: insurers find that building a successful IT project begins and ends with effective strategy. |
Chordas, Loft |
|
2463 |
| Starting next year, Aetna Inc. will be the primary provider of health and insurance benefits for Bank of America. |
|
Brief article |
40 |
| Starting Oct. 1, Cigna Healthcare will stop reimbursing hospitals for some serious and preventable mistakes in patient care. |
|
Brief article |
65 |
| State Farm's new advertising campaign. |
Chordas, Lori |
|
107 |
| Staying alive: adaptability key to surviving rocky insurance cycle. |
Dankwa, David |
|
495 |
| STOLI Bills and Laws. |
|
|
15 |
| Study touts life guarantees. |
|
Brief article |
162 |
| Sun Life introduces retro disability. |
|
Brief article |
93 |
| Swiss Life has confirmed that it has completed the sale of its Dutch and Belgian businesses to SNS REAAL for 1.53 billion [euro] ($2.35 billion). |
|
Brief article |
57 |
| Talent search. |
Miller, Peter L. |
|
335 |
| The Ace Group of Cos. |
|
Brief article |
97 |
| The Excess Line Association of New York, the quasi-public non-profit industry association charged with oversight of the state's non-admitted markets, has deemed Bermuda-based Ironshore Insurance Ltd. |
|
Brief article |
74 |
| The number of tornadoes in the United States during the first quarter of 2008 surpassed the previous four-year average, and ISO's Property Claims Services Unit estimates insurers will pay $3.35 billion in first-quarter catastrophe claims. |
|
Brief article |
71 |
| The ripple effect: the subprime meltdown has impacted the insurance industry--and more trouble might be lurking. |
Schwartzman, Joy A.; Schmitz, Michael C. |
|
2632 |
| Three points. |
Chordas, Lori |
Brief article |
224 |
| TIAA-CREF. |
|
Brief article |
90 |
| To the rescue: hoping to revive long-term-care insurance sales, the industry is trying new combination products. |
Panko, Ron |
|
1598 |
| Tolling benefits and pre-existing conditions: some individual state laws may prohibit an insured's coverage for a certain period of time, but as one court ruled, not forever. |
Darras, Frank N. |
|
563 |
| Tough and tougher: in a soft market, MGAs work harder to keep the bottom line flourishing. |
Cavanaugh, Bonnie Brewer |
|
1988 |
| Two of Japan's largest insurers said they will strengthen their ties to each other by investing in each others' subsidiaries. |
|
|
85 |
| Uncertainty abounds for companies with D&O renewals. |
Dankwa, David |
Brief article |
313 |
