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California Voters Would Back Workers' Comp Referendum, Survey Finds
California voters would support Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to cut costs in the state's workers' compensation system if the issue were put to them as a referendum, according ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 27, 2004
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Insurers Do Well in Customer-Satisfaction Survey
Customer Satisfaction Index. The index, which is produced quarterly by a partnership of the University of Michigan Business School, the American Society for Quality and CFI Group, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 25, 2004
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Number of Employed Uninsured Higher Than Expected in South Carolina
Viki Fox, the insurance department's project manager. "The biggest surprise," was discovering that efforts to address the uninsured needed to move less toward subsidizing the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 20, 2004
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Tillinghast Survey: D&O Premiums in 2003 See Highest-Ever Average Increase
... This might be short-lived; the survey analyzes claims paid. "There are a lot of lawsuits pending and not settled," Swanke said. "That may be the reason why we're seeing the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 2, 2004
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Aon Study: Professional Liability Claims Up 9.7% a Year
Aon Actuarial and Analytics Practice. The marketplace is focused on premiums, but the results of this study show that claims activity is a significant contributor to the recent ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 27, 2004
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Chubb Survey Finds Private Execs Increasingly Worried About Lawsuits
Specialty Insurance, in a statement announcing the survey's results. "If anything, the problem appears to be worsening," she said. Among the survey's other findings: -- Of the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 23, 2004
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Some Health Plans' Changes Tighten Access to Allergy Drugs
Asthma and Allergy Foundation. "Rather than just take it from anecdotal stories from patients, we wanted to get a cleaner, more scientific look at what was happening and a lot of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 8, 2004
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Report: Insured Blacks, Latinos More Likely to Find Prescriptions Too Costly
Center for Studying Health System Change. Among adults ages 18 to 64, almost one in five blacks, or 20%, and one in six Latinos, or 16%, didn't buy at least one prescription drug ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 30, 2003
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Study Finds Companies Passed More of Health-Care Hikes to Employees in 2003
Mercer Human Resource Consulting. A year ago, employers faced an underlying increase in health-care costs of 14% for 2003, but they made significant changes to benefit-plan designs ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 9, 2003
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Survey: Companies Are Working Harder to Uncover Fraud
Among the executives polled at 459 U.S. public companies, 75% said they have uncovered fraud in their companies during the past year, up from 62% of executives who responded to a ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 1, 2003
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Bank Sales of Annuities Rise, Survey Shows
...Jackson National Monthly Bank Annuity Sales Survey. Annuity sales in the banking industry were only 3% below those of March, which was the best month ever recorded for annuity ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 26, 2003
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Broker Survey: Employers Redesign, Don't Drop Increasingly Costly Group Health Plans
Employee Benefits Market Survey. Even greater premium hikes, in the 20% to 30% range, were reported for 30% of small and 11% of medium-size accounts seeking group health coverage ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 13, 2003
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Marketplace: State Farm, Blues Among Top 10 "World Class" Brands
Interactive EquiTrend brand study. Both companies improved their ranking positions from Spring 2002's survey. Blue Cross/Blue Shield moved up to its No. 9 position from No. 18 and ...
Source: Best's Review   Date: November 1, 2003
Notebook: Blaster Worm, Power Blackout Might Spur Cyber Insurance Sales
Carnegie Mellon University statistics. By Lori Chordas, senior associate editor, Best's Review: Lori.Chordas@ambest.com
Source: Best's Review   Date: November 1, 2003
Update: Manufacturers Fear Foreign Lawsuits, St. Paul Survey Says
The 12-question survey asked a focus group of St. Paul agents and brokers to provide impressions on a number of issues facing the industry. Among the survey's other results: 42% of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 20, 2003
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Manufacturers Fear Foreign Lawsuits, St. Paul Survey Says
Exposure to international product liability, manufacturers' errors and omissions, and shifting economic trends faced by the manufacturing industry were cited by nearly half of a ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 17, 2003
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Survey Finds Information Security a Concern, Companies Poorly Prepared
As privacy issues become more closely regulated on both a state and a federal level, a new industry survey shows insurance executives believe more needs to be done to meet the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 1, 2003
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Auto Rates Increase but So Does Customer Satisfaction
National Auto Insurance Study by J.D. Power & Associates, a global marketing information services firm. In the past 12 months, many people who have shopped their rates are ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 2, 2003
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American Workers Choose Health Benefits Over More Money
United States between July 22 and Aug. 12. People chose benefits over salary even when the question was asked in a different way, said Leonie Huddy, director of the research center ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 20, 2003
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Survey: Fraud Hits One in Three Companies
National Insurance Crime Bureau. For every claim dollar an insurer pays out, 15 cents go to fraud, while only 62 cents go to pay legitimate claims and 23 cents cover administrative ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 13, 2003
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