| Best's Review Life-Health Insurance Edition 1992 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| 1992 viewed as critical to overseas expansion. | Insurance | |
| 401(k) plans: lemons or lemonade? (opportunities in pension planning) (Focus: Accent on Agents) | Insurance | Seymour Petrovsky |
| ABCs of health care. (employee benefits, controlling health care costs) | Insurance | Scott Avery |
| Adding value. (Valuation Actuary Requirement) | Insurance | Michael V. Fasano |
| Adjusting the sails. (insurance industry turnaround)(Executives Speak Out) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Thomas B. Wheeler |
| A glass half full. (life insurance) (Industry Overview) | Insurance | John A. MacBain |
| Allocating capital resources. (life insurance companies) | Insurance | Gil G. Marmol |
| All the right moves. (financial planning and relocation) | Insurance | Ted Kurlowicz, Stephan Leimberg |
| A market in narrow straits. (guaranteed investment contracts; includes related article on municipal contracts) | Insurance | David Foppert |
| A.M. Best improves rating structure for 1992. (includes related guide to ratings) | Insurance | Arthur Snyder |
| A new way to deliver products: by reengineering their distribution channels, insurers can gain a marketing advantage in an increasingly costly and competitive aspect of the business. | Insurance | William A. Sherden |
| Annual review of life/health insurers. (Best's Rating Monitor) (Illustration) | Insurance | |
| A question of commitment: before committing capital to the group health business, insurers should differentiate local market strategies to help decide where they want to compete. Then, they can invest in some markets and exit others. (Focus: Health Insurance) | Insurance | Frederick H. Eppinger, Nancy T. Lukitsh, Russell K. Nash |
| A safe haven for nonqualified plans. (executive retirement benefits) | Insurance | William L. MacDonald |
| A serious distortion? (market-value accounting and the insurance industry; analysis) | Insurance | Robert W. Stein |
| ASO's feast of services. (administrative-services-only arrangements for health insurers) (The Product Rainbow) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Pete Silkowski |
| Attending to detail. (conference planning) | Insurance | Lori A. Beauchemin |
| Benefiting from seniority. (age-based profit plans) | Insurance | Robert J. Spindel, James E. Harrell |
| Best's insolvency study: life/health insurers 1976-1991. (includes related articles on financially impaired companies and recommendations for regulators) (Cover Story) | Insurance | |
| Best's rating monitor: annual review of life/health insurers. (Illustration) | Insurance | |
| Best's rating monitor. (Annual Review of Life/Health Insurers, part 3) | Insurance | |
| Best's Rating Monitor: annual review of life/health insurers. (part 5) (Illustration) | Insurance | |
| Best's rating monitor: six month review of life/health insurers. (through Sep 18, 1992) | Insurance | |
| Building a culture for service: crafting and initiating an effective customer service culture in the 1990s is vital to a company's growth and market share. | Insurance | William J. Healy |
| Bullish about the future. (improving ratings for the future of the life insurance industry)(Executives Speak Out) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Michael I. Roth |
| Business planning for the planner. | Insurance | Mark C. Tibergien |
| Capitalizing on technology. (computer technology for the insurance industry) | Insurance | Robert K. Malik |
| Carving out key execs. (replacing group term coverage for top executives with individual insurance policies) | Insurance | Beth Lang |
| Celtic Life. (New Plans, New Policies) | Insurance | |
| Choosing the right mutual fund. | Insurance | Reg Green |
| Circuit court rules on qualification ratio. (7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) | Insurance | Michael J. Cuddy, James S. Stavris Jr., Donald K. Steffen |
| Clearing up a murky tax issue. (long-term care policies and living benefits riders) | Insurance | Anne Marie Walsh |
| Columbia Universal Life. (New Plans, New Policies) | Insurance | |
| Controlling our destiny. (insurance industry management)(Executives Speak Out) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Stephen C. Hilbert |
| Corporate changes 1991. (life/health insurance companies; includes directory) | Insurance | |
| Deducting the interest on loans to buy policies. (tax laws for insurance in an investment portfolio) | Insurance | Ray A. Knight, Lee G. Knight |
| Deferred-comp plans: doing it right. (deferred compensation plans) | Insurance | Eric Burke Mills, Harley L. Bjelland |
| Deficiency reserve not allowed for nonlife SPDAs. (single-premium deposit administration contracts) (Current Tax Developments) (Column) | Insurance | Charles R. Meyer, Michael J. Cuddy |
| Demutualization: charting a course. | Insurance | Jeffrey A. Koeppel |
| Disability post-ADA. (American with Disabilities Act) (Health Insurance Prescription) | Insurance | Edward L.C. Haslam |
| Do life insurers overmanage assets? | Insurance | Joseph G. Eisenhauer |
| Eliminating the paper chase. (DST Systems' Automated Work Distributor) | Insurance | Kenneth H. Conrad |
| Empowering the user. (Amex Life Assurance Co. decentralizes information control to its user departments) | Insurance | Bruce Russell |
| Ending the unfairness of state guaranty funds. | Insurance | Thomas H. Borman |
| Expert systems: the missing step. (Harnessing Technology) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Joan Helland |
| Fair coverage for all. (Health Insurance Prescription) | Insurance | Joanne S. Morrissey |
| Financing growth. | Insurance | Guy F. Jonckheer |
| Finding the funds. (helping clients fund their children's education) | Insurance | Raymond D. Loewe |
| Five-year history of flexible-premium annuities. (Illustration) | Insurance | Robert L. Mabie |
| Flexible-premium annuity policy survey. (Illustration) | Insurance | |
| Getting back to basics. (insurance industry objectives)(Executives Speak Out) (Cover Story) | Insurance | G. David Hurd |
| Getting flexible. (small-group flexible benefits) (The Product Rainbow) (Cover Story) | Insurance | William T. O'Hargan |
| Getting into management's head. | Insurance | John S. Chapman, Kurt W. Florian Jr. |
| Getting to the point of service; to satisfy consumers' demands for health care cost controls and flexibility, insurers must integrate indemnity and managed care products into point-of-service plans. (Focus: Health Insurance) | Insurance | Paul Fleischacker |
| Golden opportunities in charitable giving. (Focus: Accent on Agents) | Insurance | E. David Yossem |
| Handing down the business. (The World of Financial Planning) | Insurance | James W. Wilson |
| Helping insureds cope. (with conservatorship) (Focus: Accent on Agents) | Insurance | Michael M. Flynn |
| Hold that policyholder! | Insurance | William A. Sherden |
| Honing the competitive edge. (American Family Mutual Insurance Co. survey on insurance customer satisfaction) | Insurance | Annette Zacher |
| Hooking up a network. (for managed care systems) (Health Insurance Prescription) | Insurance | John Porter, Howard Wizig |
| Illinois Mutual Life & Casualty Co. (New Plans, New Policies) | Insurance | |
| Insurance company rating agencies: a description of their methods and procedures. (condensation of report prepared by National Association of Insurance Commissioners) (Column) | Insurance | |
| Investing in a grandchild's future. | Insurance | Dan W. Smith |
| IRS gives relief to policyholders. (Internal Revenue Service rules on economically-troubled insurance companies' life insurance and annuity contracts) | Insurance | Michael J. Cuddy, Steven R. Cartwright, James S. Stavris Jr. |
| IRS issues DAC regulations. (Internal Revenue Service; capitalization of deferred acquisition costs) | Insurance | Michael J. Cuddy, Stephen S. Olds |
| IRS rules interest changes do not create new contracts. (Internal Revenue Service) | Insurance | Michael J. Cuddy, Addison Shuster |
| Keeping an eye on the competition. (includes related articles) | Insurance | Richard H. Nahmias, David Harkleroad, Dorothy Orszulak |
| Keeping the faith on annuities. | Insurance | Garth A. McCann |
| LifeUSA. (New Plans, New Policies) | Insurance | |
| Making GAAP relevant. (generally accepted accounting principles) | Insurance | Kenneth C. Klueh |
| Managing health benefits: a graphic advantage. (health information services) | Insurance | Robert McCarthy |
| Mergers of insurers result in tax-attribute carryovers. (Current Tax Developments) (Column) | Insurance | Charles R. Meyer, Michael J. Cuddy |
| Monitoring physician performance. (Health Insurance Prescription) | Insurance | N. Stephen Ober |
| More turmoil ahead. (life insurance industry problems) | Insurance | Andrew S. Cherkas |
| Motivating high-tech workers. | Insurance | Martha Edwards Myers |
| Moving with the markets. (insurance company management strategies) | Insurance | William J. Wichman |
| NAIC keeps regulatory wheels rolling - slowly. (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) | Insurance | Charlie Schmidt |
| New ground rules for pension plan investing. (Focus on Financial Planning) | Insurance | Kenn Beam Tacchino |
| New-look GICs. (guaranteed-investment contracts) | Insurance | Jonathan L. Mercier |
| New plans, new policies. | Insurance | |
| NHI: it's better than you think. (national health insurance) | Insurance | William A. Glaser |
| Now is the time; competitive pressures and other factors in the current environment make it imperative that insurers act now to establish or improve their provider networks. (Focus: Health Insurance) | Insurance | Richard W. Osborne |
| One base at a time. (use of information technology by the insurance industry; includes related article on John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance) (Harnessing Technology) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Bradford T. Brown |
| On the cutting edge of service. (insurance agencies) | Insurance | Joseph Hanna |
| Participating whole life policy survey. (insurance policies) | Insurance | |
| Personal contact counts: alternative selling systems cannot replace the human touch that agents bring to a sale. (Increasing Agency Revenues) (Cover Story) | Insurance | |
| Picking a winner: the opportunities for agents in the changing individual disability marketplace are as great as the challenges. (Increasing Agency Revenues) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Catherine M. Philips |
| President-elect seen as less friendly to industry. (insurance industry) | Insurance | |
| Profiting by association. | Insurance | Sylvia Cancela |
| Provident Life & Accident. (New Plans, New Policies ) | Insurance | |
| Put some P/C into your practice. (financial planners should include property/casualty insurance products) | Insurance | Bruce W. Saenger |
| Questionable rate assumptions. (interest-sensitive insurance policies) | Insurance | Donald A. King |
| RBC technical overview. (risk-based capital) | Insurance | |
| Regulating at a snail's pace. (monitoring the insurance industry's financial health) | Insurance | Fred Perlmutter, Frank Russo |
| Rep. Dingell introduces solvency regulation bill. (John D. Dingell) | Insurance | |
| Restoring individual DI. (disability insurance) (Health Insurance Prescription) | Insurance | David W. Simbro |
| Review of Best's 1992 L/H rating assignments. (Annual Review of Life/Health Insurers) | Insurance | |
| Risk-based capital: is your company ready? | Insurance | Michael L. Albanese, Larry G. Mayewski |
| Seizing an opportunity: most insurers and agents shudder at the thought of banks selling insurance. However, astute marketers will seize the chance to partner themselves with banks. | Insurance | Michael D. Levison |
| Setting up expert systems failure. | Insurance | Paul B. Deschamps |
| Setting up shop in the global village. (financial planning) | Insurance | Lewis J. Walker |
| Sharing the burden. (health care reform) | Insurance | John A. Maurer |
| Sharing the liability: reversionary liability would allow assumption reinsurance to run smoothly by passing the policies, not the full responsibility. | Insurance | Scott R. Munse, Jack R. Wahlquist |
| Six-month advance financial results - 1992. | Insurance | Michael Albanese |
| Small companies, big values. (mergers and acquisitions of small insurance companies) | Insurance | Benn Prybutok |
| Squeeze on profits. (insurance industry struggle)(Executives Speak Out) (Cover Story) | Insurance | John Gummere |
| Substandard, not inferior. (rated life insurance policies require explanation by agents) (Focus: Accent on Agents) | Insurance | Robert Goldstone |
| Survival of the fittest. (financial stability of life insurance companies)(Executives Speak Out) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Robert H. Wallace Jr. |
| Systems reorganization: a winning strategy. (Harnessing Technology) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Robert G. Pouliot |
| Tackling those college bills. | Insurance | Ted Kurlowicz, William J. Ruckstuhl |
| Telephone service sells: a salaried sales force might be an agent's nightmare but it is a consumer's dream. (Increasing Agency Revenues) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Kenneth A. McClure |
| The CASE advantage. (computer-aided systems engineering environment for information management) | Insurance | Richard F. Connell |
| The fee-based package. (fee-based management accounts) | Insurance | Leonard Reinhart |
| The health management network. | Insurance | David J. Blume, Raymond A. Lenhardt |
| The impact of the recession. | Insurance | Khan H. Zahid |
| The learning connection. (insurer's use of local area networks to control costs and train high school students) (Harnessing Technology) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Nick Blazensky |
| The New England. (New Plans, New Policies) | Insurance | |
| The new technology wave. | Insurance | James F. Karkosak |
| The Principal Financial Group. (New Plans, New Policies) | Insurance | |
| The toughest call. (regulators' response time in closing troubled insurance companies) (Consumer Concerns) | Insurance | Elaine A. McReynolds |
| The year of the consumer. | Insurance | William H. McCartney |
| Timely medicine for the LTC crisis. (long-term care) | Insurance | Alan M. Kunerth |
| Timing isn't everything. (market timing, investment strategies) | Insurance | Ted Kurlowicz, Robert J. Doyle Jr. |
| Tossing out the pink slips. (reduction of operating costs by insurance companies) | Insurance | Richard Kolsky, James Trice |
| Toward a secure retirement. (The World of Financial Planning) | Insurance | Janet L. Walsh |
| Tracking the path of products. (interview with Lucian Lombardi and Erica Querfeld of the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association) (Interview) | Insurance | Rhona Ferling |
| Tried-and-true paths to college funding. | Insurance | Dan W. Smith |
| Unifying diversity. (conference planning) | Insurance | Rod Peterson |
| Universal life policy survey. (excerpt from Best's Flitcraft Compend-Universal Life Update Report) | Insurance | Winifred Dunlap, Andrew Gold |
| Universal life policy survey. (Statistical Studies) | Insurance | Andrew Gold, Winnifred Dunlap |
| Unlocking a hidden market. (marketing small-group health plans) (Increasing Agency Revenues) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Lynne S. Crow |
| Unveiling disability claims fraud. | Insurance | David Foppert |
| Variable sees a new day. (variable universal life insurance) (The Product Rainbow) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Geoffrey Peconga |
| Watching conference dollars. (planning rewarding meetings) | Insurance | Colin Acton |
| What's the use? (information technology and systems development) | Insurance | Suzanne E. Bacon |
| Who pays when the "loser pays"?. ("loser pay" rule, analysis) | Insurance | James R. Eck, William Gary Baker |
| Winning combinations. (insurance products should work together for the individual) | Insurance | Donald H. Pond Jr. |
| With all due care. (relationships between insurance agents and clients) (Consumer Concerns) | Insurance | Stephen B. Parrish, R. Dale Stephens |
This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.
