Best's Review

Reports on issues and trends of interest to the management personnel of property/casualty insurers and the agents and brokers who market their products. Coverage includes company and industry news, political and regulatory information, new product announcements, profiles of industry newsmakers, and reports of relevant court cases. Trade and business interests.

Age of anxiety.(Editor's Prologue)
March 01, 2004

Who's really at fault?(Comment)(Bill, Ford (Accounts Executive))(Lette...
March 01, 2004

Depend on disclosure.(Comment)(Letter to the Editor)
March 01, 2004

RLI Corp.(People in Insurance; Piyush K. Singh promoted)(Brief Article...
March 01, 2004

Argonaut Group Inc.(People in Insurance; B. Thomas Johns promoted)(Bri...
March 01, 2004

Corporate trends likely to ignite increasing pressure on D&O market.(H...
March 01, 2004

Liberty Mutual Group.(People in Insurance; Tim Rose to succeed Doug Ne...
March 01, 2004

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.(People in Insurance; Frederick Matteson p...
March 01, 2004

School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science.(People in ...
March 01, 2004

D&O premiums spike in 2003.(By the Numbers)(Brief Article)
March 01, 2004

Claimant distribution by ownership--United States.(By the Numbers)(Bri...
March 01, 2004

Median total premium by business class.(By the Numbers)(Brief Article)...
March 01, 2004

Prevalence of D&O liability insurance by survey year.(By the Numbers)(...
March 01, 2004

Meetings.(Briefing)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
March 01, 2004

Health plans to lower premiums with new federal medicare funds.(Briefi...
March 01, 2004

Corporate-owned life policies saved by senate.(Briefing)(Brief Article...
March 01, 2004

Chubb's asbestos charge might spur reserving run.(Briefing)(Chubb Corp...
March 01, 2004

Best's Rating Changes.(Ratings)
March 01, 2004

Guide to best's financial strength ratings.(Ratings)(Illustration)
March 01, 2004

Life at a Crossroads: the life insurance industry, beset by long-stand...
March 01, 2004

Channel surfing: the search for the most effective means of distributi...
March 01, 2004

Advancing the agenda: under ACLI's Keating, life insurers are looking ...
March 01, 2004

Building a better mousetrap: product enhancements, including guarantee...
March 01, 2004

What producers want: few agencies contract with only one or two carrie...
March 01, 2004

Expansion plans: brokers with a solid client base of small businesses ...
March 01, 2004

Easy pass: recent trends in competition and carrier contracts have blu...
March 01, 2004

A whole new world: as U.S. companies increase international investing,...
March 01, 2004

Beat the spread: workers' compensation results will produce a wide ber...
March 01, 2004

Into the future: as the year unfolds, many potential sources of loss l...
March 01, 2004

AIG sole insurance player in super bowl XXXVIII.(Marketplace)(American...
March 01, 2004

The numbers game: can insurers learn anything useful from baseball? Ab...
March 01, 2004

Dude, where's my insurance?(Loss/Risk Management Notes)(Progressive)
March 01, 2004

Study: professional liability claims up.(Loss/Risk Management Notes)(A...
March 01, 2004

GE Commercial Insurance launches cover for Masonic Associations.(Marke...
March 01, 2004

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield.(People in Insurance; promotes John W. ...
March 01, 2004

The changing world of life products.(Life)
March 01, 2004

Tackling call blockers: a decline in sales rates traced to the new Do ...
March 01, 2004

CCH Insurance Services.(Web News You Can Use)(AuthenticWeb Matrix)(Bri...
March 01, 2004

Nationwide at center of e-mail privacy ruling.(Technology Notes)(Natio...
March 01, 2004

Report: strategic IT initiatives give insurers leading edge.(Technolog...
March 01, 2004

Big, better, best? Even as some insurers gain national size through me...
March 01, 2004

MassMutual gives life policies to working parents.(Marketplace)(Brief ...
March 01, 2004

Extreme weather patterns pose greater insurance risk.(Loss/Risk)(Munic...
March 01, 2004

Fighting back: if insurers and corporations act now, they may stem the...
March 01, 2004

Applying the brakes: the march to conversion and consolidation by Blue...
March 01, 2004

A matter of time: exceptions made to preferred pricing may present lif...
March 01, 2004

Rest of the story: Paul Harvey, Bankers Life & Casualty reunite.(Marke...
March 01, 2004

Fortis builds new business model for voluntary employee benefits.(Mark...
March 01, 2004

Consumers driving change: consumer-directed health plans are here to s...
March 01, 2004

Reaching the uninsured: uncomplicated limited-benefit plans can provid...
March 01, 2004

On speaking terms: the Kinnect platform, which allows trading partners...
March 01, 2004

Unwelcome guests: although anti-virus software, firewalls and other pr...
March 01, 2004

Making IT's 'to-do' list: adequate resources are a growing concern.(Ma...
March 01, 2004

Enabling profitable growth: agent portals need to help agents grow as ...
March 01, 2004

Manulife USA.(Web News You Can Use)(Brief Article)
March 01, 2004

Travelers Property Casualty Corp.(Web News You Can Use)(Brief Article)
March 01, 2004

Zurich.(Web News you Can Use)(Brief Article)
March 01, 2004

GE's new insurance unit files for IPO.(Companies)(Brief Article)
March 01, 2004

Endurance specialty forms unit to coordinate platforms.(Companies)(End...
March 01, 2004

UnitedHealth is remaining in the individual line.(Companies)(UnitedHea...
March 01, 2004

Fortis buys Japanese equity unit of German-owned group.(Companies)(Wes...
March 01, 2004

Rand study and insurers agree: obesity causes disabilities.(The Last W...
March 01, 2004

Iroquois Group reaches out to community banks.(Marketplace)(Brief Arti...
March 01, 2004

Amity offers policies for affordable housing units.(Marketplace)(Amity...
March 01, 2004