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Advisen Research : Did You Know
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| Advisen Report: Financial Services Industry in a Time of Crisis
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11/04/2008
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| The financial services industry has been experiencing a historic crisis as the credit crunch deepens. The industry is presently under substantial pressure because of the decline of housing markets, which started in 2007 and is expected to continue well into 2009. The impact of the credit crunch has been severe, and devastating in many cases, as the basic structure of the industry has transformed over the course of weeks.
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| Insurance Company Market Share Data
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09/25/2008
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| Which Insurance Companies wrote the most D&O, EPLI, Fiduciary, Property, Umbrella & Excess, and Workers Comp? The 2008 RIMS Benchmark Survey contains this data and shows you the top ten insurance companies for each cover by policy count and total premium for the last five years.
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| Enhanced ATACm securities class action suit predictor
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09/24/2008
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| The Advisen Total Accrual metric (ATACm) is proven over 12 years to be a reliable indicator of Securities Class Action Suit risk, including for European companies with ADR programs. ATACm provides powerful insight into the risk of companies. On average since 1995, 35% of these suits were filed against the 10% of companies with the riskiest ATACm scores. If you are writing, broking or buying Public Company D&O, check the ATACm score on Advisen first. For European companies without ADR programs, ATACm offers a proxy risk score
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| ATACm Class Action Suit predictor is enhanced
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09/24/2008
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| The Advisen Total Accrual metric (ATACm) is proven over 12 years to be a reliable indicator of Securities Class Action Suit risk. ATACm provides powerful insight into the risk of companies. On average since 1995, 35% of these suits were filed against the 10% of companies with the riskiest ATACm scores. If you are writing, broking or buying Public Company D&O, check the ATACm score on Advisen first.
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| 1,142 Markets - Who Writes What Coverage Where?
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09/16/2008
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| Need to know which Markets specifically write a certain cover for a specific client profile? Stumped for a Market that will write that tough-to-place account? Advisen shows you Who Writes What Where. You can select a type of coverage and LOB and designate a specific insured demographic; Advisen tells you which Markets wrote that cover in the last 18 months. We give you a list of Carriers & Wholesalers and we show you their current ratings. And we also show you side-by-side wordings from 2,250 Policy Forms representing almost 300 Insurance Companies.
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| Learn how Value Investing Tools Predict Security Class Actions
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09/15/2008
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| Advisen has proven that value investing measures are reliable leading indicators of class action risk. For example, 22% of class action suits were filed against the 10% of companies with the riskiest Adjusted P/E. You are invited to attend a webinar presentation by Advisen on predicting class action suits using value risk measures.
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| Predict Security Class Actions Using 4 New Value Investing Tools
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09/07/2008
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| Building on the success of the Advisen Total Accrual metric (ATACm), Advisen is introducing a new suite of tools based on value investing principles to help insurance professionals anticipate securities class action risk. The tools provide powerful insight into the risk of companies experiencing a lawsuit: 22% of securities class action suits were filed against the 10% of companies with the highest Advisen Adjusted P/E score.
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| Advisen PolComp: GL Forms Now Display Over 100 Provisions
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09/04/2008
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| Are you comparing two or more General Liability forms side-by-side? Our Policy Comparison tool has been enhanced to show over 100 conditions, definition, exclusions and topics so you can easily show your client the wording differences. The whole display then exports to Microsoft Word. We have 150 GL forms in our total archive of 2,250 forms. Compare the provisions of up to 10 forms with a click of a button. Contact support@advisen.com for more info.
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| 15 Ways to Promote Your Company via Advisen
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09/02/2008
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| Advisen offers 15 unique ways to make your service and coverage offerings known to a wider commercial insurance audience. From New Product Announcements to People on the Move, some involve advertising via products like this Front Page News e-mail while others involve standard uses of our Advisen platform. Many of these ways which herald your company's capabilities and your brand to our global audience have no fee associated with them. Review this marketing checklist or e-mail it to your Chief Marketing Officer.
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| Show Me Example Losses
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08/29/2008
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| Selling, buying or writing any coverage is easier when you have loss examples at your fingertips. Advisen shows you 10,000 examples of Large Losses totaling over $550B. Search our list to find the exact set that meets your criteria. We call this database MSCAd for Master Significant Cases and Actions database. It's now entirely online, and relevant to Risk Managers, Brokers and Underwriters. Use MSCAd to build pricing models and as a guide for reserving claims. Identify uninsured or underinsured exposures for your company, your clients, or within your portfolio. Contact support@advisen.com for more info.
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| 2,250 Policy Forms from 260 Carriers
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08/26/2008
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| Our Advisen clients say they save time and money by using our Policy Comparison tool. Advisen's "PolComp" takes any two insurance forms and lays out the wordings components side-by-side, provision by provision. The whole display then exports to Microsoft Word. We have 2,250 forms from 260 different carriers in our collection. Compare the provisions of up to 10 forms to easily illustrate how all those forms differ.
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| LOSS PICKS and LOSS TRIANGLES
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08/24/2008
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| When you're making a loss pick or estimating losses for clients or prospects, you need your historical loss data and exposure data. Next, you might hire an actuary or create some complicated spreadsheet. Advisen has now created a new loss pick analyzer that is "s-e-x-y" and easy to use (though we doubt there is anyone in commercial insurance who would use the terms "s-e-x-y" and "loss pick" in the same sentence!) However, located under the Losses & Exposures dropdown menu, Advisen's Loss Triangle leads you step-by-step through the process and produces some powerful charts that easily download to Word. Suffice it to say that this new functionality is extremely good-looking! Contact support@advisen.com for more info.
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| Benchmark Total Cost of Risk for Fall Renewals
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08/06/2008
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| Where do you go for reliable, independent information about insurance and risk management costs and purchasing trends? How do you know that you are buying the optimal insurance program for your company at competitive prices? The RIMS Benchmark Survey is the definitive resource regarding Total Cost of Risk, including data on premiums, limits and retentions across commercial insurance lines, as well as in-depth information on retained losses and risk management administrative expenses for US and Canadian companies. This year's edition has outsold all previous editions. Ahead of your fall renewals, order a copy at www.RIMS.org/book.
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| Advisen for Cyber Liability
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08/05/2008
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| When was the last time you spoke to your clients about cyber exposures? On the heels of our data security briefing, we want to make you aware of Advisen's cyber functionalities. We have a POLICY FORM library online which contains cyber liability forms to compare, 385 cyber-related LOSS EVENTS to show exposure examples, WHO WRITES WHAT Coverage Where for cyber markets as well as BENCHMARKING and a NEWS SEARCH that puts all cyber exposure stories and examples in one place. Amid a soft market, this rapidly evolving insurance solution represents a new revenue source for brokers and underwriters that is being bought by an expanding array of companies.
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| Analyzing Large Losses: The Webinar
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06/15/2008
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| Need to know more about Large Losses? Attend Advisen's 30 minute Webinar that showcases the abilities you gain by sorting online thru 8,500 Large Losses representing over $500 billion. Demonstrate noteworthy claims, provide pain points, track clash events, and make the case for coverage or appropriate limits. Located under the Losses & Exposures dropdown menu, Advisen's new MSCAd (Cases & Action) functionality leads you step-by-step through the process of selecting and presenting the most relevant large losses. Click here for more details.
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| 3 Loss Development Webinars this week
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06/08/2008
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| Need to know more about Loss Picks and Loss Triangles? Attend Advisen's 30 minute Webinar on the importance of Loss Development and how to measure it. Located under the Losses & Exposures dropdown menu, Advisen's Loss Triangle leads you step-by-step through the process. Attend this webinar if you need to estimate losses for Workers Comp, GL and Auto Liability. Click here for more details.
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| Loss development webinars this week
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06/08/2008
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| Need to know more about Loss Picks and Loss Triangles? Attend Advisen's 30 minute Webinar on the importance of Loss Development and how to measure it. Located under the Losses & Exposures dropdown menu, Advisen's Loss Triangle leads you step-by-step through the process. Attend this webinar if you need to estimate losses for Workers Comp, GL and Auto Liability.
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| For What Services Should You Pay Your Broker?
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06/06/2008
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| Is your Broker worth what you are paying? Is your Broker paid by fee or commission? What services does your Broker provide for that compensation, and how do those services compare to what other buyers say they receive? This year's 2008 RIMS Benchmark Survey contains our first annual study of Broker services and fees. Based on responses from 1,500 Buyers of Insurance, the study found that Brokers increasingly compete on the basis of services provided to clients, but there are significant differences by company size and industry group in the types of services provided.
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| Selling Lowest Price vs Selling Highest Value
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06/02/2008
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| If you're a Broker who sells by delivering the lowest price, the soft market is taking a hefty toll on your book of business. But if you're a Broker who is striving to better understand your client's needs and offering consultative program advice, we have valuable tools for you. Benchmarking against 275,000 companies' worth of program data is a foundation on which we add related Large Loss data, Form Comparisons, and even Loss Pick calculators to make sure your client does business with you for a reason. Read the testimonial here.
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| Four Loss Development Webinars in early June
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06/01/2008
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| Need to know more about Loss Picks and Loss Triangles? Attend Advisen's 30 minute Webinar on the importance of Loss Development and how to measure it. Located under the Losses & Exposures dropdown menu, Advisen's Loss Triangle leads you step-by-step through the process. Attend this webinar if you need to estimate losses for Workers Comp, GL and Auto Liability.
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| Provide Examples of Pain Points (Large Losses)
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05/30/2008
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| You can now search our 8,500 large losses totaling over $500B to find the exact list that meets your criteria. Advisen's Benchmarking utility shows what limits companies buy; our Large Loss database illustrates why those companies purchase those limit levels. Our data demonstrates the pain other companies have experienced. Need to show your client other examples of loss events and cases by category or industry? Want to review other losses that have impacted companies within the same SIC code? Combine filter criteria or search by keyword. Export data to Word, download copies of complaints, and graph groups of related cases. Make your limits case by showing the pain.
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| CRMd -- Highly configurable sales management tool set
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05/27/2008
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| A new application on the Advisen tool bar, between 'Prospecting & Peers' and 'Templates & Workups' and which allows the normalisation of your book of business to the Advisen Master File database. AMFd holds company information on over 5 million organisations, which not only means that you will be saved the time of inputting this information, it will also eliminate inaccurate and redundant records that would compromise data quality and negatively impact upon management reporting.
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| Promote Your Company via Advisen
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05/23/2008
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| Advisen offers at least 15 unique ways to make your service and coverage offerings known to a wider commercial insurance audience. Some involve advertising via products like this Front Page News e-mail while others involve standard uses of our Advisen platform. Many of these ways which herald your company's capabilities and your brand to our global audience have no associated fees.
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| MSCAd v2 tracks over 8,500 large loss cases
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05/22/2008
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| MSCAd v2, Advisen's large loss database, tracks over 8,500 large loss cases, providing valuable information to professionals within the insurance space, to include brokers, underwriters, risk managers and law firms in assessing exposure, trends and the formulation of policy terms
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| Loss Triangles: Generate estimates of ultimate loss
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05/21/2008
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| Advisen is constantly delivering applications to the insurance industry that help analyse insurance and risk trends and ensure that the best use is made of time and resource within organisations by delivering business critical information, in real-time. The Loss Triangle application enables the tracking of historical losses by claims frequency, losses incurred and/or paid, in order to calculate loss development factors and generate estimates of ultimate losses.
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| For What Services Should You Pay Your Broker?
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05/18/2008
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| Is your Broker worth what you are paying? Is your Broker paid by fee or commission? What services does your Broker provide for that compensation, and how do those services compare to what other buyers say they receive? This year's 2008 RIMS Benchmark Survey contains our first annual study of Broker services and fees. Based on responses from 1,500 Buyers of Insurance, the study found that Brokers increasingly compete on the basis of services provided to clients, but there are significant differences by company size and industry group in the types of services provided.
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| 2008 RIMS Benchmark Survey is ready to order
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05/12/2008
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| Where do you go for reliable, independent information about insurance and risk management costs and purchasing trends? How do you know that you are buying the optimal insurance program for your company at competitive prices? The RIMS Benchmark Survey is the definitive resource regarding Total Cost of Risk, including data on premiums, limits and retentions across commercial insurance lines, as well as in-depth information on retained losses and risk management administrative expenses for US and Canadian companies.
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| LOSS PICKS and LOSS TRIANGLES NEW!
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05/11/2008
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| When you're making a loss pick or estimating losses for Workers Comp, General and Auto Liability, you need your historical loss data and exposure data. Next, you might hire an actuary or create some complicated spreadsheet. Advisen has now created a new loss pick analyzer that is "s-e-x-y." and easy to use (though we doubt there is anyone in commercial insurance who would use the terms "s-e-x-y" and "loss pick" or "loss triangle" in the same sentence!) However, located under the Losses & Exposures dropdown menu, Advisen's Loss Triangle leads you step-by-step through the process and produces some powerful charts that easily download to Word. Suffice it to say that this new functionality is extremely good-looking!
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| Study Finds Shifting Relationship Between Buyers and Brokers
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04/28/2008
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| The Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) and Advisen, Ltd. announce the release of the Broker Services and Remuneration Study as part of the 2008 RIMS Benchmark Survey book. The study - based on data gathered in February from 1,519 participants - has found that insurance buyers are driving brokers to change their service offerings and the way brokers are compensated.The study is the first comprehensive analysis of the relationship between commercial insurance buyers and brokers since the industry tumult of 2004-2005.
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| "Advisenize" at RIMS Booth #1729
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04/25/2008
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| Advisen looks forward to seeing you at the RIMS Annual Conference in San Diego. We'll be showcasing our newest software at our Booth #1729. What's new from Advisen? Casualty data, and lots of it. Everything from Environmental hazards to OSHA and 5500 data rolled up by company hierarchy. Also, a Watchlist to push data about your favorite companies to you via e-mail. Plus an exciting filter for our 9,000 Large Losses in our MSCAd database and a very s-e-x-y new Loss Triangle analytic.
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| E-mail Alerts for Significant Recent SEC Filings
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04/16/2008
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| Underwriting or selling coverage to public companies? Use Advisen's new Watchlist to generate alert e-mails about their significant recent SEC filings. We now push a single daily e-mail alert to you when there is material from the previous day that meets our criteria.
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| 2,000 Wordings from 250 Carriers
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04/09/2008
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| Our 200 Broker clients say they save time and money by using our Wordings Repository & Comparison tool. You can compare any two insurance forms and lay them out side-by-side, provision by provision. The whole display then exports to Microsoft Word.
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| Benchmark Commercial Insurance Against 275,000 Companies
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04/02/2008
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| Preparing for mid-year renewals? When a client says, "Show me what current premiums, limits and retentions are in place for other organizations," how do you respond? Advisen has over one million commercial insurance programs stored online. Compare current and historical premiums, limits and retentions as well as rate online and other ratios. No other source has more data for help you with renewals.
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| Subprime Cases Now Exceed 200
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02/21/2008
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| Advisen's roster of cases rooted back to the single Clash event of Subprime now totals 207. To see the entire list, click on the Losses & Exposures dropdown and select MSCAd, our Large Loss database of 7,904 Events and Cases. Now choose the Related View tab to sort the entries by common Root Causes. When you click on the Description column, all of our Subprime data pops to the top.
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| Advisen's Dave Bradford on CNBC about Subprime
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02/13/2008
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| On Tuesday, February 12, Advisen's Dave Bradford appeared on Mary Thompson's CNBC program to speak about the Subprime Crisis. Dave discussed the litigation aspects of the Subprime & Credit crunch as well as its impact on Directors & Officers.
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| Important Message for Front Page News Readers
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02/11/2008
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| Effective March 1, the annual subscription rate for the Professional edition of Front Page News will increase to US$199. The Professional edition of FPN allows you to read the full story beneath each of our FPN headlines. If you are considering upgrading your subscription or renewing it soon, we encourage you to do so at https://www.advisen.com/fpn/fpnCreditCardInfo.jsp before this new higher rate kicks in.
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| Advisen Report Analyzes Suprime Crisis Impact on Insurers
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02/05/2008
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| More than $230 billion in writedowns from the subprime mortgage crisis have sparked a barrage of securities class action and related lawsuits that are likely cost to directors and officer liability (D&O) insurers $3.6 billion, according to a new report from Advisen Ltd.
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| Advsen for Management Liability
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02/05/2008
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| Are you a Commercial Insurance Professional working in the Management and Professional Liability arena? Ahead of the PLUS D&O Symposium in New York this week, we overview the Advisen data and analytics that apply to this sector.
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| Planning for Renewals? Show off with our new ADVx
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01/23/2008
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| ADVx, our Commercial Insurance Premium Index, shows a 5% decrease in overall composite premiums while D&O rates fell 12%. Why not include a chart like this in your next renewal presentation?
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| Compare insurance laws in 160 countries
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01/23/2008
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| Do you or your clients operate in multiple territories? Do you wonder what the laws are for premium taxation or the governance of D&O in each of these locations? Advisen's database of global insurance laws has been updated to provide the most up to date legal and regulatory comparator.
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| MSCAd Featured Case: Supreme Court Decision in Charter
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01/16/2008
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| Scientific Atlanta (608561) and Motorola (608561) Supreme Court Victory Also found under Related Case id 2540. The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that investors can't bring private lawsuits against third parties in corporate-fraud cases unless they relied on actions by those parties when making investment decisions.
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| Class action risk scoring for European companies
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01/16/2008
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| Introducing ATACm Europe. Advisen now delivers a directors and offers liability risk analytic for European companies that compares listed businesses in Europe to similar US companies.
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| MSCAd Featured Cases: Motorola and Scientific Atlanta
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01/15/2008
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| Scientific Atlanta (608561) and Motorola (608561) Supreme Court Victory Also found under Related Case id 2540. The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that investors can't bring private lawsuits against third parties in corporate-fraud cases unless they relied on actions by those parties when making investment decisions.
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| U.S. renewal pricing down 5%
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01/15/2008
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| Advisen tracks US commercial lines premiums with data provided directly from thousands of risk management departments. Advisen's ADVx pricing index is updated quarterly and now includes renewals through the fourth quarter of 2007.
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| Subprime-Related Write-Downs
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01/14/2008
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| To date, more than $170 billion has evaporated from the balance sheets of companies around the world as the result of the meltdown of the U.S. subprime mortgage market. Commercial banks and investment banks have been the hardest hit, with write-downs by Citigroup and UBS alone accounting for more than $28 billion. Losses have been nearly evenly split between U.S. and non-U.S. companies. Review Advisen's Special Report, "Subprime-related Write-downs: Potential Exposure to D&O and E&O Insurers."
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| Wholesalers love our Policy Comparison Tool
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12/17/2007
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| Our 26 National and Regional Wholesalers clients say they save time and money by using our Policy Comparison tool. Advisen's PolComp takes two insurance forms and lays them out side by side. The whole display than exports to Microsoft Word. We have about 1,600 form in our collection. You can compare the provisions of up to 10 forms to easily illustrate to your Retailer or client how all those forms differ.
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| Subprime Webinar Dec 12 at 10am EST
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12/04/2007
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| We will repeat and update our Subprime Webinar presentation on Wednesday, December 12 at 10am EST. Advisen's Chief Knowledge Officer Dave Bradford will discuss the Subprime Mortgage Lending debacle and the associated insurance issues.
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| Get Free HPL Claims Benchmarks
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12/02/2007
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| When it comes to reducing accidents and managing your costs, how do you compare to your peers? Find out with Advisen's HPL Claims Benchmarking.
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| Benchmark Commercial Insurance Against 250,000 Companies
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11/28/2007
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| Preparing for January 1 renewals? When a client says, "Show me what current premiums, limits and retentions are in place for other organizations," how do you respond? Advisen now has over one million commercial insurance programs stored online. Compare current and historical premiums, limits and retentions as well as rate online and other similar ratios. No other source has more data for help you with renewals.
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| Subprime Webinar Nov 29 at 2pm EST
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11/19/2007
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| Join Advisen's Chief Knowledge Officer Dave Bradford as he discusses the Subprime Mortgage Lending debacle and the associated insurance issues. This webinar will be held on Thursday, November 29 at 2pm EST.
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| Thursday Webinar Tours of NEW Advisen v6.3
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11/13/2007
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| Advisen takes on a NEW look and feel with our latest version 6.3 software. Take 45 minutes to see our enhanced tools and analytics that cover new areas of the commercial insurance life cycle. Join us on Thursday (Nov 15) at noon or at 3pm and get up to speed on new Advisen v6.3 software. From Company Analysis and new data sets to Program Management and enhanced Prospecting capabilities, Advisen v6.3 offers new features for Underwriters, Brokers and Risk Managers.
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| Three Webinar Tours of NEW Advisen v6.3 Software
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11/08/2007
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| Advisen takes on a NEW look and feel with its latest version 6.3 software. Take 45 minutes to see the enhanced tools and analytics that cover new areas of the commercial insurance lifecycle. Join Advisen on Monday (November 12th) at noon, Thursday (November 15th) at noon or at 3 pm, and get up to speed on new Advisen v6.3 software.
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| Advisen Speed Training Today at 8:30am EDT
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10/25/2007
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| Compare Policy Language instantly. With over 1,500 forms in our library, we make doing a side-by-side form comparison simple. And we download the whole thing to Word. Take 10 minutes right now to learn how to use this tool. Our Speed Training session on Benchmarking starts at 8:30am EDT. Click here for the link to attend.
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| Advisen Speed Training Seminar for Benchmarking
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10/24/2007
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| If you're not providing your clients with Benchmarks, who is? Advisen's Premium, Limit, and Retention Benchmarking database helps verify the adequacy of limits, prove competitive pricing, and demonstrate different program structures. Take 10 minutes right now to learn how to quickly use this tool. Our Speed Training session on Benchmarking starts at 8:30am EDT. Click here for the link to attend.
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| Today's FPN Links Now Working!
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10/23/2007
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| We apologize to our readers who got error messages when attempting to open FPN news stories this morning. Testing of a new Blackberry version of FPN went awry, causing broken article links for all FPN Professional subscribers. The problem is now fixed.
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| Speed Training Today at 8:30 AM
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10/23/2007
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| How do Producers use Large Loss data to generate business? Advisen's Master Significant Cases and Actions database (MSCAd) now has almost 7,000 records available for your review. Take 10 minutes right now to learn how to use this tool. Our Speed Training session on MSCAd starts at 8:30am EDT. Click here for the link to attend.
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| Advisen Speed Training Today at 8:30am EDT
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10/23/2007
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| How do Producers use Large Loss data to generate business? Advisen's Master Significant Cases and Actions database (MSCAd) now has almost 7,000 records available for your review. Take 10 minutes right now to learn how to use this tool. Our Speed Training session on MSCAd starts at 8:30am EDT. Click here for the link to attend.
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| Advisen Speed Training Tuesday, October 23
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10/17/2007
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| Next week, Advisen will host a morning series of four targeted, topic-specific, speed training sessions, beginning on Tuesday. We say "speed training" because these webinars will start promptly at 8:30am EDT (NY Time) and will last no more than 15 minutes. We've also talked to enough Producers that we know how to maximize short attention spans, too.
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| Insurance Lawyers & Claims Attorneys Webinar on Tues, Oct. 16
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10/05/2007
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| Whether you represent insurance companies or policy holders, take 45 minutes to learn how Advisen enhances your ability to review and compare Large Losses, Policy Form contract language, Insurance Pricing Trends and company exposures.
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| Two Webinar Tours Thursday, October 11
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10/03/2007
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| Two Webinar Tours Thursday, October 11 Thursday, October 11 at 12 noon (Eastern Time) for Underwriters & Brokers Thursday, October 11 at 3pm (Eastern Time) for Risk Managers Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. Review Benchmarking, Policy Comparisons, Who Writes What Coverage Where, Company Exposure Analysis and more.
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| Advisen's Bradford Speaks on Subprime Meltdown
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10/02/2007
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| According to Advisen's MSCAd large loss database, more than 30 lawsuits have been filed so far against lenders, real estate investment trusts, mortgage insurers and others as a result of the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market. Dave Bradford, executive vice president and chief knowledge officer of Advisen Ltd., will be speaking on the impact of the subprime fiasco on the directors and officers liability insurance market at the PLUS European D&O Forum on Thursday, October 4, at the Grange City Hotel in London.
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| Over 6000 Large Losses
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09/30/2007
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| Do you need to research large loss events? Illustrate potential claim scenarios? Evaluate whether you are buying high-enough limits? Advisen's Master Significant Cases & Actions database (MSCAd) now has over 6,000 records available for your review. We are the premier source for Securities Fraud and ERISA Class Actions, but MSCAd is much more - Property, Marine, Aviation/Aerospace, Liability, Employment Practices, Malpractice, and other events make up 40% of MSCAd. Where multiple cases arise from common root causes, they are linked. For example, today MSCAd identifies 34 potential losses related to Subprime Lending. Contact Advisen at support@advisen.com for more details.
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| Tracking Subprime Mortgage Loan Exposures
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09/25/2007
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| Our clients have asked us about the insurance ramifications of the evolving Subprime Mortgage Loan meltdown situation. If you are handling accounts with exposure here, Advisen assists you in three ways: Read Advisen's briefing, review the large losses stemming from this one root cause, and read all the related news stories on the subprime topic in one place.
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| SKY Broadcasting Operating Margins down 20 percent
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09/20/2007
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| Advisen has always carried a complete list of financial ratios to help you analyze risk and has now added the ability to track these ratios over the past 5 years in a table or in a graph. See the Historical Ratios QuickView page under the Financials menu on advisen.com. Call +44(0) 20 7929 6929 or e-mail london@advisen.com for access.
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| Use "As Reported" financials for UK businesses
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09/18/2007
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| Advisen.com helps underwriters review submissions on over 3 million global businesses including configurable work-ups that aggregate information and save you time. With 5 years of accounts for these UK businesses, you can now compare "As Reported" financials to other global formats such as US GAAP. Call +44(0) 20 7929 6929 or e-mail london@advisen.com for access.
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| Prospect for UK business
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09/18/2007
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| Use advisen.com to find new business. Search through 133,000 public and private businesses in the UK to find your territory. With 5 years of accounts for these prospects, our data is refreshed and accurate so that you are prepared to make your next call. Call +44(0) 20 7929 6929 or e-mail london@advisen.com for access.
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| Add Your Policy Form to Our Library of 1,500
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09/14/2007
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| How many times has the chore of comparing each provision of one policy to another policy drained hours of your time? Send a copy of the forms to policies@advisen.com and we'll add them into our online collection of 1,500 forms. Why? So you can click a button on Advisen to quickly compare any two or more forms in an easy side-by-side format.
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| Two Webinar Tours Friday, September 14
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09/06/2007
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| Flagpole: As of August 17, 2007
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08/17/2007
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| NEW! Brokers are posting 7 Risks here to find Markets. The Advisen Flagpole is a new solution for situations where you might say, "Hey, let's run it up the flagpole to see who might be interested." We hope that it helps Brokers find new Markets, greater capacity, or additional Markets to discuss a potential Risk.
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| Two Webinar Tours Thursday, July 12
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06/25/2007
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| Almost 185 retail and wholesale brokerage firms and some 35 different carriers use Advisen. An increasing number of large company Risk Management departments also use Advisen to gain a more complete view of the commercial insurance markets. Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| 2006 RIMS Benchmark Survey Ready to Ship
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06/25/2007
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| Where do you go for reliable, independent information about insurance and risk management costs and purchasing trends? The RIMS Benchmark Survey has been published since 1979, and remains the definitive resource regarding Total Cost of Risk, including data on premiums, limits and retentions across commercial insurance lines, as well as in-depth information on retained losses and risk management administrative expenses for U.S. and Canadian companies. For the last four years, Advisen has worked with RIMS to publish the Survey. The latest edition of this book is available for purchase.
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| Benchmarking Webinar, Thursday, June 28
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06/25/2007
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| Is insurance program benchmarking critical to you? Is your Board of Directors demanding more meaningful insurance analysis? Spend 30 minutes in our popular "Benchmarking 202" Webinar which is being repeated again on Thursday, June 28 at noon NY time. No other Benchmarking tool provides more power to see market trends and to compare premiums, limits and retentions. Advisen now relates our giant arsenal of over 230,000 companies' worth of exposure data so that you can, for example, analyze Workers Comp premiums on a per employee basis. Or compare EPLI or Crime limits by employee. Look at public company D&O Benchmarks by market cap and track Fiduciary coverage on plan assets.
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| Compare Nearly 1,400 Policy Forms
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06/21/2007
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| How many times has the chore of comparing each provision of one policy to another policy drained hours of your time? Advisen now lets you quickly compare any two or more forms from nearly 1,400 forms in our online collection from over 140 different carriers.
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| Follow London & European Insurance Markets with FPN Europe
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06/19/2007
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| If you follow the evolving London and European commercial insurance markets and you like Advisen's Front Page News, you will enjoy FPN Europe. When staying current on the latest news & developments in Europe has never been more vital, we bring you the European Edition of Advisen Front Page News (FPN). To register to receive our FPN Europe e-mail each day in your inbox, go to eurfpn.advisen.com (no www). Click on the gray Subscribe button and choose FPN Europe.
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| Predicting D&O Risk Webinar
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06/19/2007
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| We have substantially enhanced ATACm, Advisen's securities class action risk predictive metric. Advisen now displays ATACm scores for nearly 16,000 companies. We invite you to attend a Webinar on Friday, June 22 at noon NY time to learn more about this Advisen tool. This session will also provide an introduction to our proprietary Master Significant Case and Action database (MSCAd), which contains our security class action data and is an integral component of ATACm.
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| Presentation at AIRMIC: UK Insurance Program Benchmarking
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06/04/2007
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| UK program benchmarking provides clients with highly-relevant comparisons against customised peer groups. Oxygen is the first UK broker to support the initiative which, covering all major lines, will answer questions such as "How much coverage do my peers buy?" or "Am I paying too much for my insurance?" Join Advisen and Oxygen at the AIRMIC 2007 Conference at the Oxygen Stand at 10.45a on Wednesday 6th June to learn about UK program benchmarking.
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| 2006 RIMS Benchmark Survey is ready to order
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05/22/2007
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| Where do you go for reliable, independent information about insurance and risk management costs and purchasing trends? How do you know that you are buying the optimal insurance program for your company at competitive prices? The RIMS Benchmark Survey is the definitive resource regarding Total Cost of Risk, including data on premiums, limits and retentions across commercial insurance lines, as well as in-depth information on retained losses and risk management administrative expenses for U.S. and Canadian companies.
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| Predicting D&O Risk Webinar -- Monday, June 4th
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05/22/2007
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| We have substantially enhanced ATACm, Advisen's securities class action risk predictive metric. Advisen now displays ATACm scores for nearly 16,000 companies. We invite you to attend a Webinar on Monday, June 4th at noon Eastern time to learn more about this Advisen tool. This session will also provide an introduction to our proprietary Master Significant Case and Action database (MSCAd), which contains our security class action data and is an integral component of ATACm.
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| 531 Markets - Who Writes What Where?
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05/08/2007
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| Stumped for a market that will write that tough-to-place account? Need the expertise of a wholesaler experienced in an oddball cover? Your Advisen subscription now shows you Who Writes What Where. You can pick a type of coverage and LOB and designate a specific insured demographic and Advisen will tell you which Markets wrote that cover in the last 18 months. We'll give you a list of Carriers & Wholesalers.
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| Webinar Tours on May 10
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05/07/2007
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| Almost 180 retail and wholesale brokerage firms and some 35 different carriers use Advisen. An increasing number of large company Risk Management departments also use Advisen to gain a more complete view of the commercial insurance markets. Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| Benchmarking Webinar, May 7
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05/02/2007
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| Is insurance program benchmarking critical to you? Is your Board of Directors demanding more meaningful insurance analysis? Spend 30 minutes in our "Benchmarking 202" Webinar on May 7 at 3pm NY time. No other Benchmarking tool provides more power to see market trends and to compare premiums, limits and retentions. Advisen now relates our giant arsenal of over 1,000,000 programs to company exposure data so that you can, for example, analyze Workers Comp premiums on a per employee basis. Or compare EPLI or Crime limits by employee. Look at public company D&O Benchmarks by market cap and track Fiduciary coverage on plan assets.
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| Updated ADVx Premium Change Index Tracks Softening Market
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04/26/2007
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| Talking to insurance buyers who don't follow the market tick-by-tick? Explaining insurance trends to a Board of Directors or senior management? Advisen's premium change indices, ADVx, which have now been updated with first quarter premium change data, are an easy way to visualize insurance market trends. The Composite index, a weighted average of the Property, General Liability, Workers Compensation and Directors & Officers indices, indicates the commercial insurance marketplace continues to soften.
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| "Advisenize" at RIMS Booth #1420
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04/25/2007
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| Advisen looks forward to seeing you at the RIMS Annual Conference in New Orleans. We will be showcasing our newest version 6.0 software at our Booth #1420.
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| Rough Notes Spotlights Advisen
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04/24/2007
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| Advisen is featured in the April 2007 edition of Rough Notes in a technology article titled, "An Online Research Department."
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| Benchmarking 202 Webinar April 24
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04/19/2007
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| Is insurance program benchmarking critical to you? Is your Board of Directors demanding more meaningful insurance analysis? Spend 30 minutes in our "Benchmarking 202" Webinar on April 24 at noon NY time. No other Benchmarking tool provides more power to see market trends and to compare premiums, limits and retentions. Advisen now relates our giant arsenal of over 650,000 programs to company exposure data so that you can, for example, analyze Workers Comp premiums on a per employee basis. Or compare EPLI or Crime limits by employee. Look at public company D&O Benchmarks by market cap and track Fiduciary coverage on plan assets.
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| New Benchmarking Analytics
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04/16/2007
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| Have you used Advisen's Benchmarks to recommend or review coverage? If yes, you'll like our newest additions. Now you can Benchmark Workers Comp premiums on a per employee basis. Or compare EPLI or Crime limits by employee. Look at public company D&O Benchmarks by market cap and track Fiduciary coverage on plan assets. Join us for a 30 minute "Benchmarking 202" Webinar on April 24 at noon NY time.
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| Advisen's CLEW Report on Human Capital
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03/28/2007
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| Finding the right person for the job is a perpetual challenge for companies in the insurance industry. A shortage of critical talent affects both brokers and carriers, and extends throughout the executive, managerial and professional ranks. The situation is likely to worsen in the coming years.
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| Two Webinar Tours Thursday, April 12
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03/19/2007
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| Thursday, April 12 at 12 noon (Eastern Time) for Brokers & Underwriters Thursday, April 12 at 3pm (Eastern Time) for Risk Managers Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| Two Web Trainings Thursday, March 8
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02/19/2007
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. Thursday, March 8 at 12 noon (Eastern Time) for Brokers & Underwriters Thursday, March 8 at 3pm (Eastern Time) for Risk Managers There is no charge to participate in this call.
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| CFRA Conference Call - Restatements Continue Upward Surge
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02/16/2007
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| 2006 was another record year for accounting restatements with 1,876 restatements from 1,591 unique firms, according to a report by CFRA and Audit Analytics. The number of restatements increased by 17% from 2005, when 1,448 unique firms restated their results. Join CFRA & Audit Analytics on Tuesday, February 20 at 11am EST for web conference call to discuss a new report titled "Accounting Restatements Continue Upward Surge in 2006."
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| Welcome to Advisen Front Page News!
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02/07/2007
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| Welcome to Advisen's daily news service dedicated to commercial insurance professionals who broker, underwrite or manage risk in the European marketplace. I hope you will find the articles relevant and a quick means of being briefed on the top stories of the day.
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| Advisen for D&O
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01/28/2007
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| Are you are a Commercial Insurance Professional working in the Management and Professional Liability arena? Utilize the full power of your Advisen access. Ahead of the PLUS D&O Symposium in New York this week, we overview the array of Advisen data & analytics that applies to this sector. Almost everyday, the Advisen staff helps a Professional Liability player construct a better program benchmark, conduct company research or even find companies that meet similar financial criteria. If we can help you prepare for an upcoming renewal, a prospect or client presentation, or the evaluation of a submission, please contact us at support@advisen.com.
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| Two Web Trainings Thursday, February 8
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01/22/2007
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| Thursday, February 8 at 12 noon (Eastern Time) for Brokers & Underwriters Thursday, February 8 at 3pm (Eastern Time) for Risk Managers Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| Happy New Year from Advisen!
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01/02/2007
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| Together with our very Best Wishes for the New Year, we offer you a handy list of tools & databases that we added to Advisen last year to help you have a more productive 2007. If we can help you prepare for an upcoming renewal, a prospect or client presentation, the evaluation of a submission, or any of your other insurance and risk management projects, please contact us at support@advisen.com.
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| Two Web Trainings Thursday, January 11
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12/27/2006
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, start the New Year by taking 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| Two Web Trainings Thursday, December 14
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12/11/2006
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| Thursday, December 14 at 12 noon (Eastern Time) for Brokers & Underwriters Thursday, December 14 at 3pm (Eastern Time) for Risk Managers Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| NEW Interactive Stock Chart
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12/04/2006
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| If you are underwriting or broking public company Management Liability products, you want to understand issues influencing stock performance. Advisen now enables you to identify potential problem areas and investigate their cause utilizing changes in stock price as your guide. Our NEW Interactive Stock Chart allows you to determine the significant developments, federal dockets, and significant cases associated with stock price movement for up to 5 companies at once.
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| Benchmark Commercial Insurance Against 75,000 Companies
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11/08/2006
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| When a client or a colleague says, "Show me what current premiums, limits and retentions are for similar organizations," how do you respond? Advisen makes this easier by continually increasing our Benchmarking program database. We now have a half million programs. Compare current and historical premiums, limits and retentions as well as rate-on- line and other similar ratios.
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| Two Web Trainings Thursday, November 9
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11/05/2006
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| Thursday, November 9 at 12 noon (Eastern Time) for Brokers & Underwriters Thursday, November 9 at 3pm (Eastern Time) for Risk Managers Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| Updated ADVx Premium Change Index Tracks Softening Market
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10/31/2006
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| Advisen's premium change indices, ADVx, have been updated with third quarter premium change data. The Composite index, a weighted average of the Property, General Liability, Workers Compensation and Directors & Officers indices, indicates the commercial insurance marketplace continues to soften, though at a very moderate pace.
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| Two Web Trainings Thursday, October 12
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10/08/2006
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| Thursday, October 12 at 12 noon (Eastern Time) for Brokers & Underwriters Thursday, October 12 at 3pm (Eastern Time) for Risk Managers Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| Compare Over 1,000 Policy Forms
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10/04/2006
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| How many times has the chore of comparing each provision of one policy to another policy drained hours of your time? Advisen now lets you quickly compare any two or more forms from over 1,000 forms in our online collection from over 130 different carriers.
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| Analyst Call Transcripts
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09/26/2006
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| Working on a public company submission? Want to read what Wall Street, Fleet Street and Bay Street analysts discussed in their recent conference call about your company? Read the full text from their conference calls. Advisen's News Archive allows you to see Analyst Calls via full text transcripts. These call transcripts are one type of hundreds of newswires and feeds that flow through Advisen and they are searchable in our system.
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| Advisen Web Training Thursday, September 14
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09/13/2006
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| New Advisen Version 5.0 to be released Monday
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09/07/2006
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| On Monday, September 11, Advisen will release Version 5.0 to improve clients' access and productivity by enhancing our navigation. As with every Advisen software release, this new 5.0 version includes new content and functionality. Learn about the benefits of Advisen 5.0 at a Web Training Session on Wednesday, September 13 at 12 noon (Eastern Time).
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| Advisen Benchmarking Programs over 400,000 Deep
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08/28/2006
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| Over 400,000 programs now power Advisen's online Benchmarking tool. Brokers & Agents and Risk Managers use this facility to compare current and historical premiums, limits and retentions as well as rate per million and other similar ratios.
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| RIMS BENCHMARK SURVEY
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08/10/2006
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| How does your Total Cost of Risk compare to the industry? Do you have independent data about insurance and risk management costs and purchasing trends? How about differences across industries?
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| Advisen Web Training Thursday, August 10
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08/08/2006
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 35 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| Hone Your Competitive Edge With Advisen Consulting
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07/26/2006
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| The same deep information resources and insurance expertise that powers the Advisen information and analytics system can help your company enhance its competitive advantage in an increasingly challenging insurance marketplace.
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| Executive Option Date Risk & Scandal Tracking
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07/24/2006
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| A number of our clients have asked us how to track all of the news and research on the evolving Executive Option Date Risk situation from multiple sources in one place. There are easily over 250 articles from wires and periodicals published in the last month alone. Here is the answer.
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| Advisen Web Training Thursday, July 13
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07/12/2006
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| Well over half of the Top 100 brokerage firms in the US and some 30 different carriers use Advisen. An increasing number of large company Risk Management departments also use Advisen to gain a more complete view of the commercial insurance markets. What are all these underwriters, brokers, and risk managers using Advisen for and how did they become proficient with it?
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| The Advisen Option Date Risk Database
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06/25/2006
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| Advisen announces the release of version 1.0 of its Option Date Risk Database (ODRd), a database of 375 companies that have characteristics in common with companies that have been subpoenaed by state or federal authorities in the on-going investigation of backdated stock options. ODRd can be licensed from Advisen Ltd.
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| Hospital Claims Benchmarking: Advisen Web Tour Friday, June 23
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06/13/2006
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| If you are a Healthcare Risk Management Professional who wants to see how one healthcare facility or system stacks up against others, you should join this Advisen Web Tour to view our Claims Benchmarking (CBM) for Hospital Professional Liability (HPL). This new Advisen tool enables Healthcare Risk Managers, Brokers and Underwriters to benchmark hospital claims against similar entities.
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| Expanded Web Bios on Key People
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06/07/2006
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| Advisen now brings together Web References on Key Personnel. Instead of going to multiple places, Advisen brings you details on employment history, education and a variety of web notations about the individual. When proxy statements and company bios fail to illuminate the background of a director or officer, choose this new Web References path to find more information. Note that Web References is available for both public and private companies where Advisen knows the Key Personnel. Attributions appear in full view, so that you can quickly determine the relevance of each citation.
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