| Best's Review Property-Casualty Insurance Edition 1993 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 1991 industry bond holdings. | Insurance | Robin Edelman |
| A coverage for all seasons; facultative's ability to adapt to changes in the reinsurance environment ensures it a permanent place in the market. | Insurance | David Halm |
| Agents pull the strings with EDI: agents need not fear that electronic data interface will give insurers control of their computer systems. | Insurance | Gregory A. Maciag |
| A health care treatment. (an analysis of the current health care system and a model for reform) | Insurance | Larry G. Mayewski, Jay Dhru |
| A level playing field; an increase in the excise tax would place domestic reinsurers on a more level playing field with their foreign competitors. | Insurance | Debra J. Anderson, George M. Brady III |
| An accelerated recovery? (low prices, interest rates plague insurance industry) | Insurance | Herbert E. Goodfriend |
| An adjustment in attitude. (for property and casualty insurance adjusters) | Insurance | Marvin Milton |
| A new course for reinsurers; companies that react to the trends taking hold in the reinsurance industry can reap the rewards of a stronger and more efficient marketplace. | Insurance | Ronald L. Bornhuetter |
| A policy to recover. (reinsurance recovery) | Insurance | William J. Wall |
| A profitable alternative. (the alternative insurance market) | Insurance | Jon Harkavy |
| A sound network for communications. (USAA Casualty Insurance Co.'s data processing and communications networks) | Insurance | Joel King, Robert Jawalka |
| Assisting clients with self-insurance. | Insurance | Kurt C. Bingeman |
| A taxing dilemma. (Internal Revenue Code section 845) | Insurance | F. Roy Sedore |
| Avoiding risk. (property and casualty insurance companies are lowering their risk exposure in wake of the devastating disasters of 1992 and 1993) | Insurance | John H. Synder |
| Awash in fraud. (preventing fraudulent insurance claims for damaged property) | Insurance | Jack R. Tarvin Jr. |
| Best's rating monitor: annual review of property/casualty insurers. (includes Guide to 1993 Best's Ratings) (Illustration) | Insurance | |
| Best's rating monitor: annual review of property/casualty insurers. (Monthly Release, July 1993, part 3) (Illustration) | Insurance | |
| Best's rating monitor: annual review of property/casualty insurers. (Monthly Release Number 2; June 1993)(includes expanded rating rationale for 32 companies and key to entries) (Directory) | Insurance | |
| Can we talk? (communication difficulties between the insurance industry and regulators) | Insurance | Zack Stamp |
| Captive insurers gain added "appeal." | Insurance | Michael J. Cuddy, James S. Stavris Jr., Philip K. Marblestone |
| Captives as a comp cure. (single-purpose reinsurance companies seen as one method to keep workers' compensation costs down) (includes related article) | Insurance | William J. Mudge, Laura A. Taylor, Thomas R. Chapman |
| Catastrophes: the new math. (some mathematical models performed better than others in estimating damages incurred by Hurricane Andrew) (includes related article on property claims services) | Insurance | Brendan Noonan |
| Cat loss estimates: models of disaster. (catastrophic reinsurance market) | Insurance | L.D. Hunter-Blank |
| Constructing protection for design professionals. (workers compensation, general liability insurance) | Insurance | Peter B. Hawes |
| Containing toxic risks. (environmental losses for insurance companies) | Insurance | Steven Hargreaves |
| Coordinating two-tiered regulation: although less desirable than improving state regulation, a dual system of federal and state regulation can succeed if properly designed and coordinated. (insurance industry) | Insurance | L. Gerald Roach |
| Corporate changes '92. (property and casualty insurance companies) | Insurance | |
| Correlating credit and claims experience. (criteria considered when underwriting insurance policies) | Insurance | John B. Wilson, Wendell B. Larson |
| Customer service and the bottom line. (insurance industry) | Insurance | John Cravenho, William J. Cosgrove |
| Deflecting liability in lead-poisoning suits. | Insurance | Owen P. McGowan |
| EDI initiative launched for reinsurers and brokers. (electronic data interchange; RINET insurance network) | Insurance | Kathrine Huelster |
| Electing loss reserve discounts. (property and casualty insurers) | Insurance | Craig Larsen, Donald Steffen, Ronald Swanstrom |
| Electronic transactions: the new look at Lloyd's. (insurance house automates) | Insurance | Bob Blatchford |
| Ending tax games. (ensuring proper premium tax collection from unlicensed insurers) (Column) | Insurance | Thomas Bloom |
| Ending the redlining lie. | Insurance | John S. Benton |
| Equity in agent licensing. (insurance agent licensing) | Insurance | Particia A. Borowski |
| Fighting liability suits related to inspections. (suits against insurance companies for negligent inspections of property)(includes related article listing tips for avoiding exposure) | Insurance | Thomas M. Bower |
| Funded covers under siege; before property catastrophe funded reinsurance is rendered functionally useless, regulators and the accounting profession need to acknowledge that funded products buttress an industry under stress. | Insurance | J. Steven Neyer |
| Good times ahead. (professional liability insurers) | Insurance | Raymond Wahl |
| Grieving claimants, adjusters and agents. (dealing with clients' grief) | Insurance | Frederick L. Pilot |
| How agents can escape disaster. (errors and omissions claims) | Insurance | Curtis M. Pearsall |
| Hurricane Andrew: a postmortem. (what the catastrophe will cost insurers, reinsurers) | Insurance | John H. Snyder |
| If not now, then when? (legislative efforts to make domestic insurers more solvent, competitive with offshore companies) | Insurance | George K. Bernstein |
| Image systems expand beyond service. | Insurance | Ken Graham |
| Imaging with the human touch. (image management systems for the insurance industry) | Insurance | Steven D. Linkous |
| Insurance divorce. (policy buy backs) | Insurance | Joseph J. Lostrangio |
| Insurers look to the issues of 1993. (Coopers and Lybrand's Fourth Annual Executive Conference for the property and casualty insurance industry) | Insurance | Rhonda J. Ruch |
| Intangibles: an intransigent issue. (tax treatment of agency renewal lists) | Insurance | Jerry T. Hargrove |
| Integrating underwriting and hazard assessments. | Insurance | Douglas Frazier, Earl Aurelius |
| IRS releases final discounting rules. (rules for discounting unpaid losses of insurance companies) | Insurance | Michael J. Cuddy, George Paz |
| IVANS: a vigorous decade; dynamic growth in the face of adversity has propelled the industry's electronic communications network into its second decade of operation. (Insurance Value Added Network Service) | Insurance | Charles C. Ashley |
| Learning from RRG failures. (risk retention groups) (includes related article listing insolvent risk retention groups) | Insurance | Karen Cutts |
| Leaving surplus lines out in the cold. (state regulations favor residual markets over surplus lines insurance) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Rober B. Angle |
| Making the right choice. (selecting the right arbitrator) | Insurance | Richard G. Waterman |
| Managing legal costs. | Insurance | Ronald P. O'Hanley, Michael S. Pritula |
| Managing P/C health care costs. (property and casualty) | Insurance | James A. Hatherley |
| Managing the costs of on-line information. | Insurance | Pat Alderson |
| Market mania. (challenges to independent insurance agents in 1993) | Insurance | Jerry T. Hargrove |
| Nine-month review of property/casualty insurers. | Insurance | |
| Old gas plants fuel new claims. (gas manufacturing plants generate new liability claims) | Insurance | Alan S. Rutkin |
| Opportunity in an unexpected place. (insurance industry in Laos) | Insurance | Michael T. Skully |
| Patenting coverages. (for financial products) | Insurance | Joseph H. Golant |
| Planning tomorrow's systems. (data processing and information technology in the insurance industry) | Insurance | William K. Lee |
| Players from afar. (foreign investment in US insurance market) | Insurance | Kinchen C. Bizzell |
| Preserving E&S market access. (excess and surplus insurance lines) (Column) | Insurance | David J. Brummond |
| Promise or peril? (proposed federal regulation on surplus lines insurance industry) (Cover Story) | Insurance | Derek Hughes |
| Pseudo psychology and fear of injury. (psychological damage insurance suits) | Insurance | Richard S. Brown, Paul R. Lees-Haley |
| Raising capital in the public market. (insurance companies offering public stock) | Insurance | Howard S. Lanznar, Timothy J. Moore |
| Real estate relief: although troubled real estate assets are a headache, insurers can alleviate the pain by developing successful asset-management and disposition programs. | Insurance | Stan Ross, Dennis Yeskey |
| Review of 1992 Best's rating changes and trends for P/C insurers. (property and casualty insurance companies' finances and ratings) (Industry Overview) | Insurance | |
| RIMS participants expect more from insurers and brokers. (Risk and Insurance Management Society meeting in Orlando, Florida) | Insurance | Mark L. Schussel |
| Rooting out quacks. (determining the qualifications of environmental consultants) (Column) | Insurance | David M. Rosenberg, Isabelle Allgood Neal |
| SAFE-T to the rescue. (Solvency and Financial Enforcement Trust; plan would increase solvency regulations for the insurance industry)(includes related article on guidelines for measuring insurance company risk) | Insurance | Philip R. O'Connor, Rodger S. Lawson |
| Salvaging Superfund. (insurance industry) | Insurance | Leslie Cheek III |
| Selecting investment management systems. (insurance industry) | Insurance | John L. Johnsen, Jack W. Tyniec |
| Service attacks experience-rated reinsurance agreements. (Internal Revenue Service)(Current Tax Developments) | Insurance | Charles R. Meyer, Michael J. Cuddy |
| Structured for success. (structured settlements) | Insurance | John Laugharn, William L. Winslow |
| Taking a hard look at Canada. (opportunities for U.S. insurers) | Insurance | Philip Arthur, Jane Briant |
| Taxpayer wins intangible assets case. (Newark Morning Ledger Co. vs. United States) | Insurance | Michael J. Cuddy, Jonathan J. Davies |
| The arbitration tug-of-war. (when dealing with receivers, reinsurers would rather litigate than arbitrate) | Insurance | James Veach |
| The compact solution: as the shortcomings of the current insurance guaranty-fund system become less acceptable, adopting an interstate compact may be the only alternative to federal intervention. (life and casualty insurance industry) | Insurance | Donald M. Halperin |
| The ethereal electronic evolution. (insurers should use technologies that improve customers' access to information) | Insurance | Barry J. Rabkin |
| The high stakes of high-tech. (property and casualty insurance for the high technology industry)(includes related article on directors and officers liability) | Insurance | Thomas R. Cornwell |
| The imaging advantage. (document imaging technology enhances insurance brokers competitiveness) | Insurance | Paul McKeon |
| The outsourcing partnership. (Arbella Mutual Insurance Co.'s use of an outsourcing vendor for printing and mailing) | Insurance | Mary Ann Palmer |
| The year of the cats. (catastrophic losses in 1992) | Insurance | John H. Snyder |
| Time to capitalize on restructuring. (insurance companies) (includes related article) | Insurance | Raymond A. Matison |
| Ways to manage diversity. (insurance companies that offer diversified financial services) | Insurance | Erich W. Sippel, David M. McDonough |
| Weather insurance: blue skies ahead. | Insurance | Harold Mollin |
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