| Best's Review Property-Casualty Insurance Edition 1995 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 1993's premium growth improves expense ratios. (insurance industry) (Industry Overview) | Insurance | Diane Ferraiolo |
| 1994 - premiums and leading fidelity writers by state.(fidelity insurance)(Illustration) | Insurance | |
| 1994 - premiums and leading surety writers by state.(surety insurance)(Illustration) | Insurance | |
| Accountants face risks doing estate planning.(Column) | Insurance | Ric Rosario |
| Accountants risk adds up to opportunity or disaster. | Insurance | John O. McDonald |
| Agency councils provide powwow for profits. | Insurance | Charlene M. Donnelly |
| Agents should be aware of emerging liability.(lawsuit liabilities) | Insurance | C. Edward Speidel |
| Agent's worst nightmare: banks are gaining the edge to sell insurance in a big way. | Insurance | Dave McDaniel |
| Alternatives devour a primary marketplace.(Column) | Insurance | Michael Murphy |
| An economically viable model for insurers to demutualize. | Insurance | Richard A. Hemmings, Robert S. Seiler |
| An electronic forum for the business of risk.(RiskNet and RiskWeb online services for risk managers) | Insurance | James R. Garven |
| Auto hauls the industry's burdens. (automobile insurance) (Industry Overview) | Insurance | John H. Snyder |
| Avoid driving square peg into a hole that's round. (use of pathing feature to switch to Microsoft Windows computer software) | Insurance | Charles C. Ashley |
| Balance sales, service for maximum results. (insurance) | Insurance | Joseph M. Bujold |
| Be a treasured resource for home-based businesses. | Insurance | Alison G. Coolbrith |
| Best personal lines markets: minorities, rural areas offer opportunities. | Insurance | Joe Cavaluzzi |
| Best Practices uncovers agencies doing it right.(insurance agencies) | Insurance | Peter van Aartrijk Jr. |
| Best's rating monitor: annual review of international companies. (insurance) (Industry Overview) | Insurance | |
| Best's rating philosophy of small companies. (A. M. Best Co.) | Insurance | John H. Snyder, Martin P. Sheffield |
| Breaking away from rate regulation. (California Workers' Compensation) | Insurance | Darian Ryan |
| Brokers caught in vise must adapt to survive. (insurance industry) | Insurance | Jay Cohen |
| Brokers learn benefits of using surveillance. (insurance brokers, fraud investigations) | Insurance | Bill Kizorek |
| Bulletin boards now have gone corporate. (electronic bulletin boards; insurance industry) | Insurance | Charles C. Ashley |
| But outlook is only fair as competition heats up. (Worker's compensation shows great strength) | Insurance | Marvin L. Shulman |
| Buyouts don't always spell financial relief. | Insurance | Frank Mazzilli |
| Captives keep thriving in the soft marketplace. (insurance industry) | Insurance | Susan Briggs |
| Carriers are pitching hit ratios to agents.(insurance agents)(Column) | Insurance | Vince Beatty |
| Casualty claims service need not be a gamble.(choosing claims service providers) | Insurance | Joseph P. Rainey |
| CD-ROM for training is wave of the future. (insurance agent training) | Insurance | Robert S. Littell |
| CD-ROM's business use is music to agents' ears.(includes related article on CD-ROM drives) | Insurance | LeRoy A. Boison Jr. |
| Certify your insured's alarm is UL certified. (Underwriters Laboratories Inc.) | Insurance | Jeffrey D. Zwirn |
| Challenges facing inland marine insurers. | Insurance | James E. Mooney |
| College recruiting tips for insurance professionals. | Insurance | Sandra G. Gustavson |
| Commission reductions can foil production. (insurance agents) | Insurance | Jerry Reckner, Ron Gabrielsen |
| Common characteristics of uncommon success. (insurance sales) | Insurance | Rich Marshall |
| Companies can escape insurance captivity. | Insurance | Michael R. Levin |
| Companies can profit by zeroing in on risk.(financial insurance/reinsurance) | Insurance | Joseph J. Lostrangio |
| Company hammers away at workers' comp costs. (Trane Corp.) | Insurance | Paul W. Gillis |
| Consumers like agents' expertise but banks get high service marks. (1995 Best's Review National Insurance Survey) | Insurance | Britt Beemer |
| Could I transfer an entire database? | Insurance | Susan J. Moran |
| Credit reports aid underwriters, but is it worth the controversy? (insurance) | Insurance | Joseph V. Barks |
| Crop insurance law makes fertile ground.(Federal Crop Insurance Reform Act of 1994) | Insurance | Rudy Botel |
| Customers give high marks to companies and agents: long-term policyholders surveyed. | Insurance | Britt Beemer |
| Decline continues for top 100 insurers. (asset-growth and investment yield statistics, property casualty insurance industry) | Insurance | Daniel J. Ryan |
| Delivery systems playing new role in underwriting. | Insurance | Shari D. Breazeale |
| Digging for gold in claims departments. (insurance claim recoverables) | Insurance | Richard Carris, Bill Bartlett |
| Distribution channels debated for banks in insurance. | Insurance | |
| Don't throw your adjusters to the lions.(training insurance claims adjusters) | Insurance | Jeffrey Baker |
| Do your systems have only five years to live? (problems resulting from how dates are recorded in computer systems) | Insurance | Peter de Jager |
| Economic factors affect insurance claims cost.(claims cost indexes for 1983 to 1993) | Insurance | William R. Van Ark |
| EPL claims rising - where's the coverage? (employment practices liability) | Insurance | Brian Z. Brown, John S. Touchstone |
| European Union.(a computer program for valuing European buildings) | Insurance | Richard S. Wnek, Pascal Lorthioir |
| Fault tolerant computers keep you going and going. | Insurance | Peter F. Masucci |
| Feds fight fraud with new fervor.(tougher enforcement of insider insurance fraud) | Insurance | Patrick M. Donley |
| Fending off the feds. (complying with Federal Omnibus Crime Bill of 1994) | Insurance | Richard Liskov |
| Financial model for optimal risk/return results. (includes methodology)(Industry Strategy) | Insurance | Joan Lamm-Tennant, James E. Bachman |
| Focusing on the customer. | Insurance | Mark M. Klein |
| Global Outlook. (insurance markets in the United Kingdom and Argentina) | Insurance | R. T. D. Wilmot, Mauricio Kitaigorodzki |
| Global outlook.(the insurance market in Europe and Russia) | Insurance | Helga Euwema-Both, Karel Fuijkschot |
| Guard checks against tampering and forgery. | Insurance | Michael Dalton |
| Hamstrung adjusters need better ways to stop fraud.(Column) | Insurance | Herbert I. Weisberg, Thomas J. Marx |
| HMO's liability cloudy in doctor's malpractice. (Health Maintenance Organizations) | Insurance | Richard J. Pautler |
| Home business boom requires new coverages.(Perspective)(Column) | Insurance | Robert P. Restrepo Jr. |
| Household appliances: the next EMF scare?(electromagnetic fields) | Insurance | A.V. Riswadkar |
| How can I reengineer my business procedures? | Insurance | Jim Bolton |
| Imaging can improve service, cut costs. (electronic imaging in insurance industry) | Insurance | John W. Blake Jr. |
| Industry fraud on the rise; here's how to spot it. (fraud by insurance professionals) | Insurance | Ted Baskerville |
| Industry must stop expense-shifting game.(insurance industry expense-reduction) | Insurance | James J. Jungbauer |
| Insurance education continues its evolution. | Insurance | Joan T. Schmit, Lisa A. Gardner |
| Insurers and lawyers unified on mediation.(Column) | Insurance | Jeffrey Krivis |
| Insurers better not miss the electronic boat. | Insurance | Greg Tucker, Jeffrey Wallace |
| Insurers' bondholdings rise to 62% of assets. (property casualty insurers, 1993) | Insurance | Karen Pelaia |
| Insurers fighting chemical makers in Superfund battle. | Insurance | |
| Insurers must do more to survive disasters.(Column) | Insurance | Ann Deering, Stephen P. Leatherman |
| Insurers taking auto repair PPOs for a test drive.(preferred provider organizations) | Insurance | Brian P. Sullivan |
| Interactive TV can be a marketer's dream.(Column) | Insurance | Michael Mainardi |
| Investing in technology is a matter of survival.(insurance industry)(Column) | Insurance | Alfred J. Amoroso, Mary Ann Garwood |
| Investing premium money can be a risky business. | Insurance | David A. Black |
| It may be time to revise the loss payable clause.(Column) | Insurance | Keith D. Chance |
| It's time to prepare for a mega-catastrophe. (catastrophe risk financing system) | Insurance | John R. Cashin |
| Lead-based paint law changes liability color. | Insurance | Ronald S. Gass, Cathy A. Hauck |
| Learn from your customers or future may be bleak.(insurance industry depends on customer satisfaction)(includes customer survey form) | Insurance | Annette Zacher |
| Legal crisis threatens managed care. (includes related article on avoiding lawsuits by William L. Granahan) | Insurance | Brent J. Graber |
| Level the playing field with common game plan. | Insurance | Nelson Bean |
| Lloyd's transformation is a sweet and sour mix. (Lloyd's of London) | Insurance | Brendan Noonan |
| Mainstream insurers regain appetite for high-risk market. | Insurance | Janet Aschkenasy |
| Managed care option cuts auto insurers' costs.(Colorado program to combine auto insurance with managed health care) | Insurance | Robert M. Ferm, Alan J. Schmitz |
| Management education is available for agents. | Insurance | David D. Wood |
| Managing risk is key to brokers' survival. | Insurance | Michael L. Stoll |
| Many insurers overlook advantages of subrogation. | Insurance | Gary L. Wickert, Stan F. Nelson |
| Models and plans crucial in catastrophe management.(Column) | Insurance | John F. Donahue |
| NAFTA brings opportunity to inland marine insurers. (North American Free Trade Agreement) | Insurance | Marilyn L. Lytle |
| NAIC data collection puts insurers at risk.(National Association of Insurance Commissioners)(Column) | Insurance | John Donahue |
| NAIC embraces push for reform with accreditation plan review. (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) | Insurance | |
| NAIC holds first open budget meeting. (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) | Insurance | |
| NAIC under fire; The NAIC struggles to redefine itself. (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) | Insurance | Charles E. Schmidt Jr. |
| NAIC wrangles with multiple issues at its fall meeting. (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) | Insurance | |
| New techniques stimulate reinsurance competition. | Insurance | Isaac Mashitz, Adrienne Reid |
| Nonprofits in the dark about liability risks. (nonprofit organizations) | Insurance | Marcia Munn |
| Oil tanks can leak red on company profits. | Insurance | Mark Thomases |
| Pace quickens in the search for help in catastrophe crisis. (insurance reform proposals) | Insurance | |
| Placing underwriting back into agents' hands. | Insurance | Paula V. Ingrassia |
| Pricing and consolidation: farewell to the P/C cycle.(mergers in property, casualty insurance industry are creating price competition)(Cover Story) | Insurance | Dan Lonkevich |
| Profitable markets wait beyond the red line.(Column) | Insurance | John F. Donahue |
| Program business delivers custom made market. | Insurance | C. William Cole |
| Protecting agents' stake in the Superfund debate.(insurance agents, environmental cleanup laws) | Insurance | Maria Berthoud |
| Protect your company from securities litigation. | Insurance | Kevin M. LaCroix |
| Putting your company on a solid footing. (insurance underwriting) (Column) | Insurance | George T. Van Gilder |
| Question marks surround judgement expense issue.(Column) | Insurance | Jonathan Rosen |
| Recent court rulings aid professional liability. | Insurance | Frederick J. Pagnani Jr. |
| Reserving for pollution lacks an easy solution. (insurance industry) | Insurance | Brian A. Jones |
| Review of international companies. (A. M. Best Company rating assignments for 20 international insurance companies)(Illustration) | Insurance | |
| Revive your company but avoid quick fixes.(Column) | Insurance | Larry Richards |
| Reward small accounts for good behavior. (insurance policy holders) | Insurance | William R. Henry Jr. |
| Risk management market opens up in Japan. | Insurance | Isao Takei |
| Risk management works in residual markets. | Insurance | Fred Mazzilli |
| Risk manager's survey identifies key concerns. | Insurance | |
| Sales and underwriting -- a winning combination.(using sales techniques to enhance customer response) | Insurance | Lee Hooks |
| Secure business premises by limiting access. | Insurance | Joseph F. Mangan |
| Smash loss costs by using PVB glass.(insurance losses; glass bonded by polyvinyl butyral) | Insurance | H. Scott Norville |
| Soft market encourages consolidation. (reinsurance industry)(Industry Overview) | Insurance | Suzanne E. Stipe |
| Strategic and financial challenges place downward pressure on P/C ratings. (property/casualty insurers' ratings)(Best's Rating Monitor) | Insurance | Eric M. Simpson, Peter B. Kellogg |
| Successful MGAs offer added value to carriers. (managing general agencies; insurance carriers) | Insurance | Richard W. Dorman |
| Surplus lines sales buck market trend. (Industry Overview) | Insurance | Dave McDaniel |
| Surplus lines study finds industry has matured. (study by A. M. Best and Company) | Insurance | |
| Targeting 1995's fasting growing industries. (insurance industry opportunities) | Insurance | Jodi Dorman |
| Technological advances bolster client services.(property/casualty insurance services) | Insurance | John Gaulding |
| Technology is vital to good underwriting; underwriters are using technology in imaginative ways, but there is always room for some improvement.(Insight)(Column) | Insurance | George T. Van Gilder |
| Telemarketing beats good old boy referrals. (insurance industry)(Column) | Insurance | Douglas L. Federau |
| The dwindling job market.(insurance industry; includes article about dual career paths) | Insurance | Joe Cavaluzzi, R.A. McDonald, Lawrence W. Borgen |
| The prognosis for med mal writers.(medical malpractice underwriters)(Industry Overview) | Insurance | William Matthews |
| The redlining fire continues to burn. (insurance regulation) | Insurance | Kirk M. Herath, Tammy L. Rader |
| The redlining lie. (America's Research Group survey about discrimination in insurance underwriting) | Insurance | C. Britt Beemer |
| The smart system for protecting property. (avoiding computer disasters) | Insurance | Brian O'Mahoney |
| The state of the art in high-tech thievery. | Insurance | Thomas R. Cornwell |
| The struggle over underwriting guidelines. | Insurance | Suzanne E. Stipe |
| Tools bring together carriers and agents.(automation in the insurance industry) | Insurance | John Macauley, Jim Rogers |
| Underinsurance remains widespread problem. | Insurance | Paula Hays |
| Underwriters should form industry advocacy groups.(Insight)(Column) | Insurance | John P. Cavoores |
| Using claims data to improve underwriting.(Column) | Insurance | Lawrence A. Berger |
| What are the advantages of implementing E-mail? (in insurance agencies) | Insurance | Susan J. Moran |
| What factors should be considered in an upgrade? (insurance agency automation) | Insurance | Jim Davies |
| Who can help my agency redefine our workflows?(Column) | Insurance | M. Denis Connaghan |
| Will insurance be here in 30 more years?(Column) | Insurance | Charles Perrottet, Robert Avila |
| Will the industry speak one language in future? (effort to develop standard insurance form) | Insurance | James (Irish novelist) Ryan, Ann Stolzenburg |
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