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Advisen Research : Did You Know
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| For What Services Should You Pay Your Broker?
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07/02/2009
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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 2009 RIMS Benchmark Survey contains our annual study of Broker services and fees. Based on responses from 1,241 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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| Why Do Brokers Buy the RIMS Benchmark Survey?
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06/23/2009
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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 for US and Canadian companies.
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| Webinar: Back Safety in Healthcare
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06/22/2009
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| The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reported that back injuries are the nation's number one safety problem. More than one million workers suffer back injuries each year and back injuries account for one in every five workplace injuries. Join Gallagher Healthcare Insurance Services and Midwest Employers Casualty Company for this web seminar and learn valuable tips on how to keep your caregivers safe.
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| Is Workers' Comp Simply a Cost of Doing Business?
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06/17/2009
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| Many employers don't know that workers' compensation costs ARE controllable. They often think workers' comp is simply a cost of doing business. While some types of overhead cannot be managed, workers' compensation costs CAN be controlled. By exercising a short list of simple steps, most employers can reduce their workers' comp costs.
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| 2009 AIRMIC D and O Benchmark Survey for UK Companies
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06/16/2009
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| Do you sell or write Management Liability cover for UK companies? AIRMIC has partnered with Advisen to produce detailed aggregate data of D and O insurance programmes purchased by risk managers. This AIRMIC D and O Benchmark Survey is the first exercise of its kind ever in the UK with 277 AIRMIC member companies taking part. Purchase the full report for US$150 via the Advisen Corner.
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| The Return of D and O Litigation: Free Podcast from ACE USA
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06/15/2009
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| Click here to access a free audio podcast discussing the broader issues connected with securities, derivative and regulatory litigation against today's executives from ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies. In this 26 minute podcast, ACE Professional Risk SVP &
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| Free Workers Comp Kit Calculator Shows Bottom Line Impact
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06/12/2009
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| Demonstrate to Senior Management how devastating the cost of workers' compensation can be to the bottom line. While they may see the premium dollars going out the door annually, they may not see the costs paid within the deductible, and they may not know what the full impact of these costs is. The Free Calculator in the Workers Comp Kit puts these costs into perspective.
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| Benchmark Commercial Insurance Against 275,000 Companies
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06/11/2009
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| Preparing for July 1 renewals? When a client says, "Show how my $30M excess liability limit compares to those in place for similar organizations," how do you respond? Advisen now has over 1.25 million commercial insurance programs stored online. Compare current and historical premiums, limits and retentions as well as rate on line and other similar ratios. No other source has more benchmark data to help you with renewals.
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| Ready to Close That Deal? Advisen May Be The Solution
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06/09/2009
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| Whatever happened to the good old days of loyalty coupled with an insurance broker who provides better value than their competitors? In these tough times as all sectors of the economy struggle to tread water, many of us are probably wondering why accounts that we have had for ten or twenty years sometimes head for the door. There is one answer: The bottom line. This article was written by Adam Raffa, a Producer at DeWitt Stern.
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| 15 Ways to Promote Your Company Using Advisen
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06/09/2009
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| Advisen offers over 15 unique ways to make your services and coverage offerings more known to a wider commercial insurance audience. Many of these ways to herald your company's capabilities are FREE, such as our New Product Announcements and People on the Move. Others involve advertising via products like this Front Page News e-mail, while others are standard uses of our Advisen.com platform. So print out this checklist and build your brand. Before you spend scarce promotional dollars, make sure your Chief Marketing Officer reviews this list.
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| Survey of Middle Market Broker New Business Practices
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06/03/2009
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| Advisen is surveying over 10,000 Middle Market Brokers to better understand their new business development strategies and client management practices. The goal is to help Advisen prioritize data and software development items to better fit more closely with current support needs of producers.
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| Comparing Forms Over the Holiday Weekend?
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05/22/2009
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| Struggling to see the wording differences between two or more forms? Advisen.com captures each provision as a unique data field so you can easily compare wordings side-by-side with the click of a mouse. Compare conditions, definition, exclusions and topics across our collection of 3,000 forms. The whole display exports to Microsoft Word, so you can show how the forms really differ. To view changes between carriers or how a new form differs from an older version, Advisen simplifies this process and saves you hours.
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| 500 registered for today's Webinar with Aon, III and Swiss Re
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05/12/2009
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| Over 500 buyers, brokers, lawyers and underwriters of commercial insurance will be there, and you can join for free. Advisen has invited industry leaders including Eric Andersen, CEO-Aon US Retail, Dave Bradford, co-founder and EVP of Advisen, Bob Petrilli, Head of Swiss Re's IRI Americas, and Steven Weisbart, Chief Economist for Insurance Information Institute to discuss the status of the commercial insurance marketplace.
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| Webinar on State of the Market with Aon, III and Swiss Re
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05/11/2009
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| Some insurance company executives are trumpeting the return of the hard market, but Advisen insurance program data from risk managers and brokers show that soft market conditions persist in most lines of business. Is the hard market here? If not, when will it arrive? How will it differ from prior hard markets? What factors will influence commercial insurance capacity and cost in 2009?
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| Advisen Has Thousands of News Sources
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05/11/2009
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| Whether you want to know where to start in reviewing significant developments since the last renewal or last conversation, or you want to read each and every story during exposure analysis, Advisen News can help.
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| Company Interlocks and Antitrust Issues
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05/11/2009
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| With the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times writing about the similar composition of the Board of Directors at Google and Apple, we remind you that Advisen.com features a Company Interlock display to show you where Directors and Officers at public and private companies are affiliated with other companies. If you are reviewing the possibility of antitrust issues or other risks related to management liabilities coverages, you'll appreciate this simple way to see other places where Directors and Officers serve.
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| Webinar on State of the Market with Aon, III and Swiss Re
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05/11/2009
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| Some insurance company executives are trumpeting the return of the hard market, but Advisen insurance program data from risk managers and brokers show that soft market conditions persist in most lines of business. Is the hard market here? If not, when will it arrive? How will it differ from prior hard markets? What factors will influence commercial insurance capacity and cost in 2009?
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| Securities Litigation: The Competition for Real Estate
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05/10/2009
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| If you missed Advisen's webinar last Friday reviewing the First Quarter 2009 securities cases, you missed Kevin LaCroix's insights on the plaintiff bar's motivation for filing multiple lawsuits on separate securities issued by the same company. Kevin likened this trend to "competition for real estate" by smaller firms trying to capture their own class and reap the gains. According to Kevin, this tactic may allow them to avoid the Coughlin Stoia and Bernstein Litowitz firms by exploring new angles on litigation.
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| Advisen and AJG Announce Upgrade to D&O Limit Analysis Model
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05/09/2009
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| Advisen Ltd., the leading provider of benchmarking services to commercial insurance buyers, and Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services, Inc., an international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, today jointly announced material enhancements to the Gallagher Directors & Officers Insurance Limit Analysis model integrated into Advisen. The D&O limits model is based on Gallagher's proprietary models and algorithms and calculates D&O exposures based on a client's specific ownership structure, industry, trading patterns and other unique characteristics. The easy-to-use online analysis tool is based on sophisticated statistical techniques applied to a database of large D&O claims from the past 12 years and estimates the likely amount of D&O insurance coverage required to cover most D&O claims.
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| D&O Webinar Today with Kevin Lacroix, Dave Bradford & Jim Blinn
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05/08/2009
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| Dave Bradford, Jim Blinn and John Molka of Advisen will be joined by Kevin LaCroix, author of the Internet weblog The D&O Diary for a webinar today at Noon, EDT, to review Advisen's quarterly report on securities litigation and to discuss the implications for the D&O insurance market.
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| Q1 2009 Global Securities Litigation Filing above 2008
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05/01/2009
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| The commercial insurance industry is exposed to a surge in securities litigation filings in the first quarter of 2009, according to results of a quarterly review of securities litigation by Advisen. Advisen tracked 169 global securities cases in its Master Significant Case and Action Database (MSCAd), up from 125 cases in Q4 2008 and 134 suits a year earlier in Q1 2008. The number of suits filed against non-US companies in US courts is on the rise, and so is the number of suits filed against both US and non-US companies in courts outside the US.
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| Q1 2009 Securities Litigation Filing above 2008; Webinar Friday
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05/01/2009
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| The commercial insurance industry is exposed to a surge in securities litigation filings in the first quarter of 2009, according to results of a quarterly review of securities litigation by Advisen. Advisen tracked 169 securities cases in its Master Significant Case and Action Database (MSCAd), up from 125 cases in Q4 2008 and 134 suits a year earlier in Q1 2008.
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| 2009 RIMS Benchmark Survey Book is Ready to Order
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04/30/2009
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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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| Large Loss Database Available on Advisen
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04/27/2009
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| Advisen's proprietary cases and actions database, MSCAd, now has over 33,000 losses recorded, across all lines of business. MSCAd empowers clients to filter and search for losses by Case Type, Company Type and Industry Type and also includes further detailed filtering under each of these headings.
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| rmLibrary Now Available to ALL Advisen.com Clients
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04/17/2009
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| Ever scramble for info about mold, fleet safety, ergonomics, patient safety, claims or any other of the thousands of topics that insurance professionals deal with daily? If you need to create a procedure, checklist or other document and wish you had a starting point, you'll appreciate the newest addition of rmLibrary, now licensed for all Advisen.com clients. rmLibrary consists of 25,000 resources which have been described, categorized, and tagged for insurance and risk management purposes.
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| SCAS Risk Evaluation Models for Financial Institutions
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04/13/2009
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| Underwriting or Broking D&O for FI? The year 2008 was a challenging one for underwriters of publicly-traded Financial Institutions (FI). Many high (and low) profile FIs were subject to Securities Class Action Suits (SCAS). Advisen's Value-Investing Risk Tools (VRT) help claims dodgers, but we wanted to see how well VRT and its companion, Advisen's Total Accrual metric (ATACm) would have helped dodge 2008 FI claims. Users of these tools for FI's in 2008 were able to dodge a majority of the SCAS affecting these companies.
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| Comparing Forms Over the Holiday Weekend?
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04/09/2009
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| If market volatility means you are generating more form comparisons for your clients, remember that you can compare any two or more forms from Advisen's collection of 2,750 with the click of your mouse. We capture each provision as a unique data field so you can easily compare wordings side-by-side. Compare conditions, definition, exclusions and topics. The whole display exports to Microsoft Word, so you can easily show how the forms really differ. To view changes between carriers or how a new form differs from an older version, Advisen simplifies this process and saves you hours.
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| The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the P&C Insurance Industry
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04/02/2009
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| Commercial insurance follows a boom-and-bust pricing cycle that, conventional wisdom proclaims, is largely uncorrelated with broader economic cycles. But the current recession is different. The severity of the economic crisis will adversely impact both the top lines and bottom lines of commercial insurers, making for a turbulent 2009.
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| The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the P&C Insurance Industry
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03/31/2009
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| Commercial insurance follows a boom-and-bust pricing cycle that, conventional wisdom proclaims, is largely uncorrelated with broader economic cycles. But the current recession is different. The severity of the economic crisis will adversely impact both the top lines and bottom lines of commercial insurers, making for a turbulent 2009.
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| How to Reduce Workers Comp Costs: Join a Free Advisen Webinar
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03/22/2009
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| By carefully managing a workers compensation cost containment program, companies can reduce costs and improve productivity. Workers comp is a controllable cost and Advisen offers proven methods to contain the cost. Learn from Rebecca Shafer who has helped companies in all industries reduce their costs by 20-50%. The educational webinar is free and will focus on tips you can put to use immediately will highlight products and services you can purchase to help you track your cost containment program.
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| New Functionality for Brokers, Underwriters and Buyers
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03/20/2009
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| Advisen.com launched a new software version as of March 13, 2009 that adds datasets and enhances functionality. For Brokers, look for expanded prospecting and company research ability for non-US companies. For Underwriters, the non-US data additions and the enhancements to Advisen's templates and work-ups will be the notable changes. For Risk Managers, access to proprietary models such as AJG's D&O Limits tool place more analytic power on the desktop.
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| How to Reduce Workers Comp Costs: Join a Free Advisen Webinar
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03/18/2009
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| By carefully managing a workers compensation cost containment program, companies can reduce costs and improve productivity. Workers comp is a controllable cost and Advisen offers proven methods to contain the cost. Learn from Rebecca Shafer who has helped companies in all industries reduce their costs by 20-50%. The educational webinar is free and will focus on tips you can put to use immediately will highlight products and services you can purchase to help you track your cost containment program.
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| Over 750 Clash Events and Catastrophes
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03/16/2009
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| Within Advisen's Large Loss database of 30,000 entries are now over 750 Related Cases. These Clash Events and Catastrophes are incidents where two or more Large Loss entries are linked to a single underlying cause. Some are CLASH situations, some are CATASTROPHES, others are just good examples of BAD THINGS happening in clusters. While we debate the terms of clash vs. catastrophe, if macro situations with names like Enron, Madoff, Refco, PCB contamination, Vioxx, Subprime, etc., torment or threaten your book of business, you should find our fully-indexed and detailed listing of over 750 Related Events extremely useful.
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| Form Comparisons Made E-A-S-Y
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03/12/2009
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| Does market volatility mean you are generating more form comparisons for your clients? Compare any two or more forms from Advisen's collection of 2,700 with the click of your mouse. We have captured each provision as a unique data field so you can easily compare wordings side-by-side. Compare conditions, definition, exclusions and topics. The whole display exports to Microsoft Word so you can easily show how the forms really differ. Whether it is changes between carriers or how a new form differs from an older version, Advisen simplifies this process and saves you hours.
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| Advisen for Cyber Liability
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03/10/2009
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| When was the last time you spoke to your clients about Cyber exposures? If you are reviewing Cyber Liability, our 5 related Advisen Cyber functionalities are presented here. We have a POLICY FORM library online which contains Cyber Liability forms to compare, 1,238 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. Amidst a soft, but potentially volatile market, this rapidly evolving insurance solution is being purchased by an expanding group of companies.
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| Benchmark Commercial Insurance Against 275,000 Companies
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03/09/2009
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| Preparing for renewals? When a client says, "Show how my $30M excess liability limit compares to those in place for similar organizations," how do you respond? Advisen now has over 1.25 million commercial insurance programs stored online. Compare current and historical premiums, limits and retentions as well as rate on line and other similar ratios. No other source has more data to help you with renewals. Advisen Benchmarking answers these simple questions: What do other companies buy? How much do other companies pay for similar coverage?
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| Spend 45 Minutes with Advisen and Your Clients Will Thank You
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03/08/2009
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| Spend 45 minutes at your desk learning how Advisen helps you add value to your client relationships and save time prepping for renewals. This free webinar will review Program Benchmarking, Large Loss data, Policy Form Comparisons, Exposure data, and more. This is a great use of your time if you haven't reviewed Advisen lately or are just curious about the best way to get information quickly. We'll also update you on our latest features so you can help your clients navigate in these challenging economic times.
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| Brokers Provide an Annual Stewardship Reports
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03/01/2009
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| Differentiate your services and build a branded wall around your largest and most valuable clients! Stewardship Reports are a detailed analysis of your past performance and projection of future goals for your large accounts.
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| Put your logo on Advisen and in the RIMS Benchmark Survey book
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02/24/2009
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| The RIMS Benchmark Survey is especially important in today's market and risk manager and broker readership is way up. There are cost-effective ways to get your firm's logo on this newsletter, in print in the annual book printed by RIMS and Advisen. You'll be reaching close to 100,000 industry professionals including key decision-makers with this combination of print and on-line.
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| Brokers Provide Annual Stewardship Report to Their Large Clients
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02/23/2009
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| Differentiate your services and build a branded wall around your largest and most valuable clients! Stewardship Reports are a detailed analysis of your past performance and projection of future goals for your large ($50k+ commission/fee revenue) accounts. They typically include historical narratives, accomplishment timelines, benchmarking, metrics, statistical analysis, modeling, market conditions and forecasts, targeted goals, and much, much more.
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| Madoff Scandal Exceeds 119 Worldwide Cases
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02/23/2009
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| The global web of Madoff litigation is growing and becoming more complex. With new actions from South America and Belgium as well as from the Coughlin Stoia and Pomerantz law firms, the number of worldwide cases in Advisen's Large Loss database related to the Madoff Scandal is now 119. These 119 cases are a small part of our 27,500 online Large Loss archive. But when reviewed as a group, the 119 Madoff cases rank just below our top clash events like Subprime (681) and Stock Option Grants (278). If you need to track the details of the ever-expanding Madoff litigation, or if this data can help you avoid a related risk, find an exposure, or position a coverage need, turn to MSCAd, Advisen's Large Loss database.
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| Stewardship Reports for Large Clients
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02/19/2009
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| Differentiate your services and build a branded wall around your largest and most valuable clients! Stewardship Reports are a detailed analysis of your past performance, and projection of future goals, for your large ($50k+ commission/fee revenue) accounts. They include historical narratives, accomplishment timelines, benchmarking, statistical analysis, modeling, market conditions and forecasts, and much, much more.
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| Make Big Claims Easier to D-O-D-G-E
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02/19/2009
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| Don't you hate reading really "amusing" claim descriptions after the fact on accounts you wrote? Advisen combines predictive modeling tools with Large Loss data to help you AVOID pesky events like "CEOs who don't divulge quite everything" or "R&D people who neglect to disclose their complete test results." If you're a D&O Underwriter or Broker, click here to see how we prove our point.
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| Writing or Broking D&O?
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02/17/2009
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| Ahead of the PLUS D&O Symposium in New York this month, we present Advisen's latest Management Liability capabilities. From Large Loss databases and Policy Form wordings to underwriting templates and equity analyst reports, Advisen helps you steer your book in a profitable direction. If your Underwriting or Broking operation lacks these components, we should talk before you bid on or market your next risk. If you're spending large sums to build and maintain this material, we expect you can save handsomely by leasing our capabilities to feed your systems. Click here for our latest ten point D&O Checklist of databases and functionality.
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| Underwriting Submissions Way Up?
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02/15/2009
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| Some Advisen underwriting clients are reporting that submissions are 4 times higher than the same period a year ago. Advisen addresses this increased underwriter workload issue in 2 ways. First, we build Custom Underwriting Work Ups that harness our dataset of exposure elements on 13,000,000 insureds. Second, our Web Services Integration capacity connects our data directly to your proprietary underwriting system. Read here for more details.
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| Use Large Loss data to Sell, Defend, Negotiate, and Investigate
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02/15/2009
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| Selling, buying or writing coverage is easier when you have 27,500 large loss examples at your fingertips. The Advisen Large Loss database totals $900 billion and covers cases that are Securities, Recalls, Product & Services, Employment, Professional Services, Cyber and more. Identify uninsured or underinsured exposures for your company, your clients, or within your portfolio. Justify higher limits by filtering our list to find the exact set that meets your criteria. Use this database to see which large losses might trip the new policy language. We call this database MSCAd for Master Significant Cases and Actions database; it's entirely online. We will host two "how to" Webinars this week. The first is Wednesday the 18th at 10am EST, the second on Thursday the 19th at 2pm EST. Click here to for details and to see examples of the database.
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| DUse Large Loss data to Sell, Defend, Negotiate, and Investigate
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02/14/2009
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| Selling, buying or writing coverage is easier when you have 27,500 large loss examples at your fingertips. The Advisen Large Loss database totals $900 billion and covers cases that are Securities, Recalls, Product & Services, Employment, Professional Services, Cyber and more. Identify uninsured or underinsured exposures for your company, your clients, or within your portfolio. Justify higher limits by filtering our list to find the exact set that meets your criteria. Use this database to see which large losses might trip the new policy language. We call this database MSCAd for Master Significant Cases and Actions database; it's entirely online. We will host two "how to" Webinars this week. The first is Wednesday the 18th at 10am EST, the second on Thursday the 19th at 2pm EST. Click here to for details and to see examples of the database.
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| Madoff Scandal Reaches 100 Worldwide Cases
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02/06/2009
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| With new actions from South America and Belgium as well as from Coughlin Stoia and Pomerantz, the number of worldwide cases in Advisen's Large Loss database related to the Madoff Scandal has hit the 100 mark. These 100 cases are a small part of our 27,500 online Large Loss archive. But when reviewed as a group, the 100 Madoff cases rank just below our top clash events like Subprime (664) and Stock Option Grants (264). If you need to follow the details on this ever-increasing list of Madoff cases, or if this data can help you avoid a related risk, find an exposure, or position a coverage need, turn to MSCAd, Advisen's Large Loss database.
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| Increase Your Commission Revenue with Consultative Selling!
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02/05/2009
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| Consultative Selling. You've heard the phrase, but how do you do it? With Advisen Benchmarking Reports (ABR) you will identify shortfalls in coverage and needed new coverage. Objectively. Whether you are a Retail or Wholesale broker you will place more insurance. Consultatively. Please join us for a highly valuable 20-minute webinar where we will show you how to identify these new revenue opportunities.
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| Benchmarking Increases Sales - Learn How at an Advisen Webinar
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02/05/2009
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| Advisen's broker clients regularly use our Benchmarking Reports to identify limits that should be increased or new risks for which additional insurance should be purchased - i.e. new revenue streams! Please join us for a highly valuable 20-minute webinar where we will show you how to identify these new revenue opportunities, increase your book of business, and leave your clients and prospects more informed and satisfied that you have done a great consultative job for them.
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| Use Large Loss Data to Prepare RFP Responses
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01/29/2009
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| Selling, buying or writing coverage is easier when you have 27,500 large loss examples at your fingertips. The Advisen Large Loss database totals $900 billion and covers cases that are Securities, Recalls, Product & Services, Employment, Professional Services, Cyber and more. Identify uninsured or underinsured exposures for your company, your clients, or within your portfolio. Justify higher limits by filtering our list to find the exact set that meets your criteria. Use this database to see which large losses might trip the new policy language. We call this database MSCAd for Master Significant Cases and Actions database; it's entirely online. Click here to see examples.
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| Form Comparisons Made E-A-S-Y
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01/28/2009
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| Coming out with a new product AND a new form? Are you comparing your wording to what is already in the marketplace? The Advisen Policy Form archive now contains over 2,500 forms. We have captured each provision as a unique data field so you can easily compare wordings side-by-side. Compare conditions, definition, exclusions and topics. The whole display exports to Microsoft Word so you can easily show how the forms really differ. Whether it is changes between carriers or how a new form differs from an older version, Advisen simplifies this process and saves you hours.
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| Stay More Current with Front Page News Professional
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01/28/2009
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| Advisen Front Page News is the fastest way to be briefed on the top stories of the day in your market. Don't miss an important news story culled from over 3,000 global news sources and don't be behind the times by relying on this Digest edition. Subscribe to the Professional edition to get the news at 7:30am EST (versus 10am) and to read each article in full. Follow news on clients, prospects and trading partners; stay current with the People on the Move column; and keep up with the latest litigation and regulatory developments.
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| Download the Jan 22nd Advisen webinar on Madoff litigation
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01/23/2009
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| Advisen is tracking 68 Madoff-related lawsuits filed since December 11, and more are being filed daily. But how many of these suits will lead to insured losses? Will investors have to repay proceeds from Madoff's asset management company, and will these "clawbacks" be covered under insurance policies? Advisen and a panel of industry experts discussed the potential impact of Madoff litigation on the insurance industry, and 350 global insurance professionals joined the webcast. If you missed out, don't worry: you can still download a recording of the session.
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| Advisen Webinar on Madoff Litigation
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01/18/2009
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| Join Advisen and a panel of industry experts on Thursday January 22nd at 12:00pm EST to discuss the potential impact of Madoff litigation on the insurance industry. Advisen is tracking 55 cases already filed, but will these lead to insured losses? Panelists will comment on the various forecasts of billions of dollars of exposure, and discuss how coverage will respond to the various categories of lawsuits. Is this a D&O event, an E&O event or a non-event? Learn from a panel of executives from Ironshore, Frank Crystal, Anderson Kill and Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
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| Prospecting Webinars in January
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01/08/2009
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| Join our January Webinars to grow your 2009 new business and learn how Advisen helps you expand your current book. While the soft market will likely come to an end in 2009 new business will be more important than ever in the coming months. How will you change the nature of your phone calls to prospects? How will you quickly respond to referrals? How can you expand your book into a new industry or sell a new line of business? For all levels of producers, our January Prospecting Webinars are a useful investment of 30 minutes of your time.
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| Loss Picks and Loss Triangles
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12/29/2008
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| When you are 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 created a 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!) 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.
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| SHOW ME EXAMPLE LARGE LOSSES
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12/14/2008
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| Selling, buying or writing coverage is easier when you have 18,071 large loss examples at your fingertips. Advisen's loss database totals over $617.5B and covers cases that are Securities, Recalls, Product & Services, Employment, Professional Services, Cyber and more. Justify higher limits by filtering our list to find the exact set that meets your criteria. Use this database to see which large losses might trip their new policy language. Identify uninsured or underinsured exposures for your company, your clients, or within your portfolio. Contact support@advisen.com for more info. We call this database MSCAd for Master Significant Cases and Actions database; it's entirely online.
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| Compare Policy Form Wordings F-A-S-T!
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12/11/2008
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| Are you comparing two or more policy forms side-by-side? Our Policy Form archive now exceeds 2,500 forms. We display form comparisons by provision with just one click. Compare conditions, definition, exclusions and topics. The whole display then exports to Microsoft Word so you can easily show your client how the forms really differ. Whether it's changes due to switching carriers or how a new form differs from an old version, Advisen simplifies the process and saves you hours. Contact support@advisen.com for more info.
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| Why Send Your Data to the RIMS Benchmark Survey?
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12/09/2008
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| Two main reasons: A free copy of the RIMS Benchmark Survey book and a free subscription to the full Professional edition of Advisen's Front Page News. Simply by sending your policy data or copies of your Schedules of Insurance, along with summaries of your retained losses, you benefit. We keep you abreast of the latest P&C daily news AND we help you to Benchmark your insurance programs by comparison with your peers. Submit your data at www.RIMS.org/contribute or contact us at RIMScore@advisen.com with questions. As January 1 renewals roll around, this is great time to remember the benefits of contributing your policy data.
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| Webinar for Jan Renewals Final Prep
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12/08/2008
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| Spend an hour at your desk on Wednesday, December 10 at 10am EST learning how to get more from Advisen ahead of your Jan 1s. This free webinar will review Program Benchmarking, Large Loss data, Policy Form Comparisons, Exposure data, and more. We'll also update you on our latest prospecting tools, which harness our archive of 13,000,000 insureds so you can get a jump on your 2009 book of business, too.
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| Database of Insureds Nearly Tripled to over 13 Million Companies
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12/04/2008
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| Advisen is the insurance industry's best source for information on private & public companies because Advisen relates business information to insurance market data, such as insurance policies, losses and exposures. With over 13 million companies and subsidiaries listed in Advisen, you can access any one for review or you can filter the entire list by SIC codes, geography, revenues or dozens of other variables for new business prospecting, market-sizing purposes, or simply to better analyze peer group exposures and losses.
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| Presentation on Advisen Sponsorship Opportunities- Reach 85,000
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12/03/2008
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| Advisen has quickly become the commercial insurance industry's best kept secret for advertisers. With a reach of 85,000 insurance professionals, Advisen's audience includes decision-makers among Risk Managers and other Insurance Buyers, as well as brokers and underwriters.
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| Final Prep for Jan Renewals WEBINAR Today plus MakeUp Session
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12/03/2008
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| This afternoon at 2pm EST, spend 50 minutes at your desk learning how Advisen helps you prepare for your January 1 renewals. This free webinar will review Program Benchmarking, Large Loss data, Policy Form Comparisons, Exposure data, and more. We'll also update you on our latest prospecting tools, which harness our archive of 13,000,000 insureds so you can get a jump on your 2009 book of business.
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| E-mail Alerts for Significant Filings
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11/28/2008
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| Underwriting or broking coverage to public companies? Use Advisen's Watchlist to generate e-mail alerts 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 you need to know. Select your company on Advisen and then click "Add to Watchlist" which appears at the bottom of the QuickView menu in the lower left. Now your Advisen alert is set; it's that simple.
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| Show Me Product Recalls
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11/25/2008
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| Over 2,200 Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Product Recall events have been added to Advisen's Large Loss database covering 281.6 million recalled items. About 30 or 40 new CPSC recalls are announced every month, and our database contains almost all since 2002. Need to sort product recalls by industry or company size/type? Needless to say, this data shows that large scale product recalls, such as Scott's ($30.8m for 3 recalls), Nissan ($140m), and Fujitsu ($93m), can be extremely expensive.
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| Advisen Webinar: Final Prep for January Renewals
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11/24/2008
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| Spend 50 minutes at your desk learning how Advisen helps you prepare for your January 1 renewals. This free webinar will review Program Benchmarking, Large Loss data, Policy Form Comparisons, Exposure data, and more. We'll also update you on our latest prospecting tools, which harness our archive of 13,000,000 insureds so you can get a jump on your 2009 book of business.
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| Underwriting Submissions Way Up?
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11/24/2008
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| Some Advisen underwriting clients are reporting that submissions are 4 times higher than the same period a year ago. Advisen addresses this increased underwriter workload issue in 2 ways. First, we build Custom Underwriting Work Ups that harness our dataset of exposure elements on 13,000,000 insureds. Second, our Web Services Integration capacity connects our data directly to your proprietary underwriting system. Read here for more details.
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| Advisen Webinar: Final Prep for January Renewals
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11/20/2008
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| Spend an hour at your desk learning to get more from Advisen. Learn about client intelligence and prospecting, risk models and large losses, benchmarking and work-ups, and all that Advisen has to offer.
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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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| Advisen Web Training Thursday, June 8
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06/04/2006
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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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| Hospital Claims Benchmarking: Advisen Web Tour June 5
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05/24/2006
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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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| Advisen Web Training Thursday, May 11
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05/09/2006
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| Advisen's new April software release 4.0 includes several enhancements for Risk Managers, Brokers and Underwriters. Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 50 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. This speaker for this session will be Jeff Cohen, Head of Sales & Customer Support at Advisen.
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| Property is Not the Only Hard Market
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05/03/2006
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| Certain market participants keep chirping about how the commercial insurance markets are softening. There are 250,000 Benchmarking programs stored electronically in Advisen, so it's easy to isolate subsets of data by industry or size to determine market trends by coverage and by line of business. An easy examination of the data reveals that not all Markets are softening. For example, Fiduciary Liability premiums have been steadily increasing.
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| Send Work-Ups and Custom Reports to multiple people
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04/14/2006
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| Want to send your customized Advisen Work-up or a Custom Report to a group of people? Many Advisen Underwriter users send Work-Ups to managers for approval or to assisting colleagues. Advisen Brokers may share the same Custom Report with different Underwriters. But sometimes these files need to go to several people at once. Now you can.
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| New Work-Up Functionality
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04/11/2006
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| Advisen announces several new advances added for clients using Work-Ups. Advisen Work-Ups give underwriters the ability to pull together submission-specific exposure information with their own unique comments and analysis in one online document. All relevant Advisen data on the insured is pre-populated in the work-up to enhance the underwriter's ability to quickly and easily evaluate the risk.
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| Advisen Web Training Thursday, April 13
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04/10/2006
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| Advisen's new April software release 4.0 includes several enhancements for Risk Managers, Brokers and Underwriters. Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 50 minutes on Thursday, April 13 to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions.
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| New Product Announcements
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04/04/2006
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| Underwriters, brokers and others are invited to submit notices of new commercial insurance products and services to Advisen for publication in our New Products Announcements on Advisen FPN. Items in this column include new policies and enhancements, new programs, and new divisions that cater to specific commercial businesses or industries. Recent NPA column items ranged from Hotel Insurance to Online Risk Management tools, and from Captive Consultancies to a Review of the Cat Bond Market.
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| Get Your Own Front Page News!
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02/10/2006
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| Is Your FPN Getting Blocked? A few firms still block our URL at the corporate server level. If you want FPN, we'll send it to your personal e-mail address. No problem. Subscribe online at http://fpn.advisen.com
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| What is Advisen beyond FPN? Attend a web training session
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02/07/2006
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 50 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. There are two training sessions on Thursday, February 9.
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| Predicting D&O Risk for Financial Institutions
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02/01/2006
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| Advisen has now greatly expanded the application of its ATACm model to include financial companies, encompassing banks, insurance companies, various financial services companies, and REITs. This new ATACm algorithm -- a measure of aggressive accrual accounting practices that is significantly correlated with security class action occurrences -- also is applicable to companies with large financial subsidiaries such as GE and GM.
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| Beyond news, what is Advisen? Attend a web training session
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01/11/2006
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 50 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. There are two training sessions in order to better deliver relevant information to each party: Thursday, January 12 at 12 noon (Eastern Time), and Thursday, January 12 at 3pm (Eastern Time).
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| Advisen Web Training Today for Risk Managers and for Brokers
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12/07/2005
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 50 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. There are two training sessions in order to better deliver relevant information to each party. Brokers: Thursday, December 8 at 12 noon (Eastern Time) Risk Managers: Thursday, December 8 at 2pm (Eastern Time)
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| Who Writes What Coverage Where?
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11/07/2005
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| Who writes EPLI for large Financial Institutions in New England? How many markets write Surety for Small Contractors? Where do you place Public Officials Liability? You can now find these answers and more with a few clicks on Advisen. Advisen's electronic program library exceeds 200,000 entries. We have now reverse-engineered this benchmarking program data so that we can tell which markets already write that coverage.
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| Advisen Web Training for Risk Managers and for Brokers
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11/07/2005
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 50 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. For November, we are splitting these training sessions into two in order to better deliver relevant information to each party.
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| Benchmark Your Medical Malpractice Claims
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10/08/2005
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| Advisen is launching the development of a Medical Malpractice Claims Benchmarking Tool. Our design gives Advisen clients the ability to compare Commercial Medical Facilities to their peers by Claims Frequency and Severity. Please open this article for more information or contact Kimberly Reilly at 212 897-4796 or kreilly@advisen.com
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| Web Training For Risk Managers and Brokers
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10/05/2005
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| Whether you are a buyer or a seller of commercial insurance, take 50 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. For October, we are splitting these training sessions into two in order to better deliver relevant information to each party. Please open this article to find out to register for this free event.
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| Where is the Market Going?
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09/14/2005
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| Trouble visualizing trends in all the premium data crossing your desk? How does one line of business trend differ from another across the broad market of buyers? Advisen's Market Premium Index (ADVx) tracks changes on average premiums paid at renewals of commercial lines insurance policies.
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| All Hurricane News in One Place
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09/13/2005
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| To see all of the news about Hurricane Katrina's impact from hundreds of newswires and publications in one place, click on the NEWS Tab and select Catastrophe for complete coverage.
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| Web Training Session
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09/09/2005
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| Take 50 minutes to learn how you can better utilize Advisen to make commercial insurance decisions. To register, please e-mail your full name, company name, phone number, and e-mail address to Cydney Springer at cspringer@advisen.com in order to receive a confirmation and the Web/Call Login instructions/password. There is no charge to participate in this tutorial session.
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| Marsh, Aon and Willis
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09/09/2005
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| It's no secret that Marsh, Aon and Willis dominate large account property
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| Advisen Web Training Session
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08/04/2005
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| Over half of the Top 100 brokerage firms in the U.S. now have access to Advisen. A large contingent of insurers also use Advisen. A growing number of large company risk management departments are also using 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? Join us to learn the basics of Advisen at our next Web Training Session. Please open this article to get your registration instructions for this free web training session.
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| Finite Risk Insurance & Reinsurance Update via Webcast
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08/03/2005
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| The Finite Risk controversy continues to percolate. Additional reinsurers and insurers have come under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, state attorneys general, and insurance regulators. Advisen will host a webcast on Tuesday, August 9th at 12 noon and again at 3:00 pm (Eastern time) to review the history of the investigations and related news, and discuss the most recent events. Please open this article to find out the registration requirements for this free webcast.
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| Advisen Web Training Session
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07/07/2005
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| Advisen Web Training Session: Thursday, July 14, at 12 noon (Eastern Time). To register, please e-mail your full name, company name, phone number, and e-mail address to Glen Carey at gcarey@advisen.com in order to receive a confirmation and the Web/Call Login instructions/password.
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| Advisen Web Training Sessions
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06/04/2005
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| Join us to learn the basics of Advisen at our next Advisen Web Training Session on Thursday, June 9 at 12 noon (Eastern Standard Time). This LIVE Tutorial will cover how to research and assess the risk profiles of 1.5 million companies in the Advisen database, Advisen's Benchmarking tools for premium, limit and retention analysis as well as our Policy Form Comparison Library, and how to generate prospect lists based on your custom filters. Q&A session included. There is no charge to participate in this call. For registration information please open this article.
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| Advisen Job Postings
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05/30/2005
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| Advisen Ltd; Bouchard Insurance; California Insurance Center; Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc; Fleet Insurance Services; GEM Insurance; Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs; Insurance Management Company; and S.H. Smith & Company are firms posting a total of 17 jobs on Advisen. All submissions contain the firm name, position/title, location, job description, requirements and contact information. To add a job posting, contact Chad Roth at 212.897.4792 or croth@advisen.com
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| Prospecting Made Easy for Producers
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05/25/2005
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| On Advisen, you can generate a list of companies that meet your criteria regarding industry, geography, financials, demographics, etc. And then you can download that list to Excel. Advisen's Prospecting function sorts through 1.5 million public and private company listings in our Advisen Master File (AMF), so you can find your next prospect quickly.
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| Finite Risk Insurance &Reinsurance Webcast
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05/14/2005
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| Finite Risk has recently come under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Attorney General, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Due to demand, Advisen will host an additional third webcast to explain the goals of finite risk contracts and how they work, review the history of the investigations and related news, discuss how the situation is likely to unfold, and explore the impact it will have on the insurance industry. Click open this article to get the instructions on how to register for this free Webcast to be hosted by Dave Bradford, Executive Vice President and leader of Advisen's Research and Editorial team this Wednesday, May 18 at 12 noon EST.
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| Advisen Web Training
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05/09/2005
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| Join us to learn the basics of Advisen at our next Advisen Web Training Session. This LIVE tutorial will cover how to research & assess the risk profiles of 1.5 million companies in the Advisen database, Advisen's Benchmarking tools for premium, limit & retention analysis as well as our Policy Form Comparison Library, and how to generate prospect and peer company lists based on your custom filters. Q&A session included. There is no charge to participate in this call.
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| Finite Risk Insurance and Reinsurance Webcast
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05/02/2005
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| Finite Risk has recently come under investigation by the SEC, the NY AG and the NAIC. Rapidly unfolding events and the associated scandal have shaken insurance industry powerhouses including AIG and Berkshire Hathaway. David Bradford, EVP of Advisen, will host two webcasts discussing the controversy on Friday, May 6 at 12 noon EST and again at 3 pm EST. Dave was recently quoted in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal on finite risk issues. Click here to find how to participate in either of these webcasts free of charge.
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| Advisen Job Postings
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04/30/2005
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| CNA Insurance; Fleet Insurance Services; GEM Insurance; Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs; Hooghuis Group; Lockton Insurance Brokers, Inc; NASDAQ Insurance Agency and S.H. Smith & Company are firms posting jobs on Advisen. Underwriters, brokers, risk management departments and others are invited to promote open positions here. All submissions must contain the firm name, position/title, location, job description, requirements and contact information. To add a job posting, or for more information, contact Chad Roth at 1.212.897.4792 or croth@advisen.com
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| 2004 RIMS Benchmark Survey Now in Print
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04/27/2005
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| This annual summary incorporates information from risk managers representing nearly 1,000 companies, giving a unique perspective of the commercial insurance market. Whether you use the Executive Summary or the report findings categorized by industry, the 2004 RIMS Benchmark Survey is a necessary resource to compare your organization against others.
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| Advisen Enhancement Overview By Webex
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04/23/2005
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| Last Friday, April 22, 2005, Advisen launched the biggest software upgrade ever to our system. If you have not had a chance to see Advisen's new additions, please join us for a Web-based session on Wednesday, April 27 at 12 p.m. Noon EST. This LIVE and free tutorial will cover Advisen's latest functionality for Benchmarking, Prospecting and our brand new Program Management addition. Q&A session included. Open this article to get instructions of how to register.
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| Advisen Job Postings
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04/12/2005
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| ECM Insurance Services, Fleet Insurance Services, Lockton Insurance Brokers, McGriff, Seibels & Williams Insurance Services, NASDAQ Insurance Agency, and Smith Hanley Associates Inc., Insurance Recruiter, are firms posting jobs on Advisen.
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| Advisen Web Training Sessions
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04/09/2005
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| Join us to learn the basics of Advisen at our next Advisen Web Training Session April 14, 2005 at 12 noon (Eastern Standard Time). This LIVE - and free - tutorial will cover a significant number of Advisen capabilities. Click open this article to read how to register and what topics will be covered.
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| Policy Comparison Form Library Passes 725 Forms
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04/01/2005
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| How many times has the chore of comparing each provision of one policy to another policy drained away precious hours of your time? Advisen lets you quickly and easily compare any two of over 725 policies from over 100 different carriers. For more details, call your Advisen rep at 212.897.4800 or contact Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com to learn more.
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| Benchmarking Database Approaches 150,000 Programs
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04/01/2005
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| How would you use the deepest stockpile of electronically stored program data available? Today, Advisen's total program count surpasses 144,000 programs stored electronically. The immediate offshoot is greater transparency of commercial insurance pricing trends. Use Advisen's online Benchmarking to view current and historical premiums, limits, and retentions. Call your Advisen rep or contact Jim Blinn, our resident Benchmark Expert at jblinn@advisen.com or 212.897.4830 to learn more.
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| Advisen's Insurance Investigation Tracker
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03/15/2005
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| If you are following the latest developments in the broker compensation controversy, the finite reinsurance issue or the various insurance regulatory investigations, Advisen makes it easy. Since October 2004, we have been keeping a weblog to showcase all facets of these investigations as they develop. Focus.Advisen.com is Advisen's weblog dedicated to recapping the trail of stories about which most participants in the commercial insurance industry are talking.
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| New! Advisen Web Training Sessions
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03/03/2005
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| Thursday, March 10 at 12 noon (Eastern Standard Time). Join us to learn the basics of Advisen at our second Advisen Web Training Session. This LIVE - and free - Tutorial will cover Advisen's Benchmarking tools for premium, limit and retention analysis as well as our Policy Form Comparison Library and several other capabilities. Click open this article for more information, including who to contact and what information to send.
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| Changes to Front Page News
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03/01/2005
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| Demand for Front Page News has increased dramatically in recent months, and so have our production costs. In order to maintain the excellence you have come to expect -- 15 relevant stories culled each day from over 9,000 domestic and international publications, as well as content from our own editorial staff -- we are announcing a new set of subscription options.
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| D&O Market in 2004 Webcast
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02/24/2005
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| The Directors & Officers liability insurance market is in transition. Pricing has quickly gone from very tight to increasingly competitive despite the emerging dichotomy between lower premiums and increasing loss severity. Advisen has just completed an important briefing that provides critical insight into this marketplace. David Bradford, EVP and head of Advisen's Research & Editorial team will host two webcasts on Friday, March 4 at 12 noon EST and again at 3 p.m. EST to review the briefing's conclusions and respond to your questions. Click open this article to find out how to participate in either of these webcasts free of charge.
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| Find Your Next Prospect Faster
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02/10/2005
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| Advisen's Prospecting & Peers function now sorts through all 1.5 million company listings even faster, so you can find your next prospect quickly. This software also lets you identify peer companies based on your search criteria. Click open this article to learn more. Contact your Advisen Rep or send an e-mail to Roy Salley, our King of Prospecting Tools, at rsally@advisen.com.
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| New! Advisen Web Training Sessions
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02/09/2005
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| To be held: Thursday, February 17 at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time. Join us to learn the basics of Advisen. This LIVE - and free - tutorial will cover a variety of topics from Advisen's Benchmarking tool for premium, limit and retention to how to generate prospect lists based on your own custom filters. To register, please contact Heather Herman at hherman@advisen.com.
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| Advisen Announces Prospecting and Peers Function
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02/08/2005
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| Advisen's Prospecting and Peers function now sorts through all 1.5 million company listings even faster, so you can find your next prospect quickly. This software also lets you identify peer companies based on your search criteria.
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| Captive Domicile Comparisons Explained
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01/29/2005
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| Quickly compare any two Captive Domiciles to one another with regard to Types of Coverage Written, Capital & Surplus Requirements, Premium to Surplus Ratios, and a dozen other aspects. Captive Domicile Comparisons are located under the Policy & Law Comparisons tab. Then select Captive Insurance (Global). For more details, contact your Advisen rep of Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com
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| Advisen Salesperson Wanted
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01/25/2005
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| Ambitious, independent, self-starting, intelligent, inquisitive, personable. Do these traits bring to mind someone you know from the commercial insurance industry who is looking for a new position? If so, Advisen, the leading provider of strategic information for the commercial insurance industry, is looking for people to help us grow our business.
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| NY RIMS Chapter Focus on Market Transparency
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01/19/2005
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| On Thursday, January 20, 2005, the RIMS NY Chapter will hold a special breakfast meeting to illustrate the best ways to take advantage of the largest accumulation of Benchmark data in the 30-year history of the RIMS Benchmark Survey. You will find the URL to register for this event when you click open the document.
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| Advisen SCORE Indicates Relevant Data Links
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01/18/2005
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| When you look up a company by name, Advisen ranks the matching choices quickly by SCORE to indicate how many unique databases are linked to each company record. Advisen lists well over 1.5 million companies (both public and private, of course). When figuring out how to get to the right company or prospect quickly, our bet is that underwriters and brokers are most interested in the companies with the most data matches. For more information, contact your Advisen Rep or send an e-mail to Amanda Guzik at aguzik@advisen.com.
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| Form 5500s Now On Advisen
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01/17/2005
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| Advisen now displays Form 5500 for over 200,000 companies. Form 5500s are federally mandated disclosure forms of employee benefits for company plans that have 100 or more participants. This data is useful for fiduciary liability underwriters scrutinizing retirement plan information and for brokers reviewing health and welfare programs. For more information, contact your Advisen rep or send an e-mail to Amanda Guzik at aguzik@advisen.com.
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| Securities Class Actions Settlements - Top 10 of 2004
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01/12/2005
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| When opened, this document shows the ten largest securities class action settlements of 2004. The settlements range from $2.65 billion to $84.9 million. This data comes from Advisen's Large Loss Database which tracks all Management Liability losses. To discuss ways that you can utilize this Large Loss Database, contact your Advisen rep or Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com.
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| Policy form Library Adds 3 New Lines of Coverage
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01/09/2005
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| Advisen has now built the infrastructure to allow for policy comparisons across Property, General Liability and Umbrella coverages. Located under the Policy & Law Comparison tab, Advisen lets you quickly compare any two of almost 700 policies from a variety of lines of business. If you have a Property, General Liability or Umbrella policy that you want included on Advisen for easy comparison, please send a copy via e-mail to Anne Wallace, Advisen's Legal Editor at policies@advisen.com.
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| Benchmarking Database Exceeds 100,000 Programs
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01/06/2005
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| The industry's best Program Benchmarking tool just got better. The result is greater transparency of commercial insurance trends. Advisen's online Benchmarking database now includes over 100,000 programs across 100 different Lines of Business. Use Advisen's online Benchmarking to view current and historical premiums, limits, and retentions. To learn more call your Advisen rep or contact Jeff Cohen, Head of Sales at jcohen@advisen.com or 212.897.4820.
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| Front Page News is better than ever
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11/01/2004
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| Thanks to your suggestions, Advisen Front Page News has been enhanced to better deliver news to commercial insurance professionals like you.
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| Insurance Industry Update Conference Call October 28 at 11:00 am
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10/26/2004
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| Advisen is holding an Insurance Industry Update Conference Call on Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. Please contact Kim Wilson at kwilson@advisen.com or 212.897.4806 to register. The conference call will address three topics facing commercial insurance right now: latest aspects and implications resulting from Eliot Spitzer's investigation, latest pricing trends, and ATACm.
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| ATACm and Predicting D&O Risk Web Demo Conference Call
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10/20/2004
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| Join Advisen via LIVE Web Demonstration on Friday, October 22 for the next free Advisen conference call to Predict D&O Risk. Learn how to utilize Advisen's latest software version that now includes ATACm scores and others. On Friday, October 22, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. and again at 2:00 p.m. NY time, Advisen's Senior Analyst, Dave Bradford, will explain the methodology, presentation, practical use and analysis of this revolutionary industry measurement. Q&A session included.
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| Receive your own copy of Front Page News
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10/15/2004
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| Advisen delivers news that matters to the commercial insurance professional. Every morning, our team of editors includes original content that is timely and insightful plus articles from the world's leading newspapers. Receive this e-mail newsletter and special alerts as important news breaks.
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| Now You Can be Forward
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10/14/2004
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| Have you ever read a story on Advisen and struggled to forward it to your risk management client? Perhaps you want another underwriter to review a crucial article on a specific insured? In our latest software update, we added a blue button labeled E-mail This Article to every Advisen news story and research piece available. Contact your Advisen rep at 212.897.4800 or Chris King at cking@advisen.com for more creative ways to retrieve, send and store Advisen news and research.
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| Predicting D&O Risk with ATACm Web Demo-Conference Call
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10/12/2004
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| Friday, October 15 at 9am and 12 Noon (Eastern time). To register, please contact Amanda Guzik at aguzik@advisen.com or 212.897.4807. (Please include your full name, company name, and e-mail address, in order to receive confirmation and Web/Call Login instructions/password.)
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| Advisen's Policy Comparison Library Climbs Over 600 Forms
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10/10/2004
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| How many times has the chore of comparing each provision of one policy to another policy drained away a few hours or days of your time? Located under the POLICY & LAW COMPARISON tab, Advisen lets you quickly compare any two of over 600 policies from a variety of lines of business. We continue to add new policies regularly. Most Advisen subscribers utilize this functionality to put the text of each provision of two policies side by side and then add a third column for customer commentary. For more details, call your Advisen rep at 212.897.4800 or contact Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com.
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| Advisen Advanced Benchmarking Web Demo - Conference Call
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10/02/2004
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| How can you use commercial insurance benchmarks for maximum client retention and acquisition? Join Advisen via LIVE Web Demonstration on Friday, October 8 for the next free Advisen conference call on Benchmarking. Learn how to utilize Advisen's latest software and manipulate our aggregate policy data. On Friday, October 8 at 9:00 a.m. NY time and again at Noon NY time, our resident expert Jim Blinn will walk you through Advanced Benchmarking. The first 15 minutes will be uninterrupted instruction followed by 15 minutes of Q & A. Contact Kim Wilson at kwilson@advisen.com or call 212.897.4806. Please include your full name, company name and e-mail address, in order to receive confirmation and Web / Call Login instructions and password.
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| Sarbanes-Oxley Disclosures Made Easy
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09/27/2004
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| The Securities and Exchange Commission has implemented new requirements for 8-K filings in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Public companies now have only four days to file an 8-K for critical events, such as financial restatements, material impairments, and delisting. Advisen makes it easy for you to stay on top of these important disclosures concerning your clients and prospects. Advisen collects newly filed 8-Ks every day, parses them into their relevant sections, and gives you direct access to the disclosures most important to you. For more information, contact your Advisen Rep or send an e-mail to Amanda Guzik at aguzik@advisen.com.
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| Enron Settlements - Cumulative Totals
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09/27/2004
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| The enormity of wreckage left in the wake of Hurricane Enron thus far is substantial. 20 Enron-related settlements and fines to date, ranging from $13,400,000 paid by Liberty Mutual Insurance to $159,600,000 paid by Travelers Property Casualty, total $1,408,406,000.
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| SEC Updates Now Available
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09/26/2004
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| Searching for the latest enforcements filed by the SEC? Do SEC settlements have an impact on your assessment of risk? Advisen now has available SEC Updates and Summaries under the Market Analysis tab. Contact Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com for more details.
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| Benchmarking 101 WebEx Conference Call
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09/23/2004
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| Are your clients asking for commercial insurance benchmarks? Join us via WebEx on October 1 for the next free Advisen conference call on Benchmarking. Learn how to utilize Advisen's latest software and manipulate our aggregate policy data. On Friday, October 1 at 9am NY time and again at noon NY time, our resident expert Jim Blinn will walk you through the basics of Benchmarking. The first 15 minutes will be uninterrupted instruction followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Reserve your place and obtain the WebEx conference call coordinates by contacting Heather Herman at 212.897.4784 or hherman@advisen.com
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| Auditor Exposure Indicators
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09/21/2004
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| In view of events that point to the potential for increased auditor liability, we wanted to know the level of the risks associated with auditing malpractice. Using our Advisen Large Loss Database that we maintain for losses greater than $5 million, we reviewed 30 cases dating back to 1991. We calculated that the average auditing malpractice settlement paid was just shy of $100,000,000. The entire database can be sorted by GIC codes, SIC codes and the Advisen Master File Number. That means we can do analysis by industry and sub-industry for you. To arrange for access to this invaluable source of information, contact your Advisen rep at 212.897.4800 or e-mail Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com.
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| Federal Agencies Updates Now Included
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09/21/2004
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| Reports of new regulations by different agencies that apply to insurance and financial services are all covered now in Advisen's Federal Agency update. This monthly update will also enable underwriters, claims professionals and others keep track of Federal Agency regulation changes, penalties and disciplinary actions against companies. Click on the Market Analysis tab or contact Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com for more details.
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| New Organization for Advisen Market Analysis Tab
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09/13/2004
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| The Advisen Market Analysis tab is where Advisen's proprietary analytical and editorial content lives. We have re-organized the content into categories we believe are meaningful for commercial insurance professionals. Search the Management Liability, Medical Malpractice, Risk Management and other areas for in-depth analytical content that can help you succeed in your job. Search the current and past People on the Move and Did You Know areas. Contact Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com or Dave Bradford, Advisen's Editor-in-Chief with your comments or questions.
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| EPLI Limit Indicators
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08/19/2004
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| How much Employment Practices Liability Insurance is enough? Recent mutli-million-dollar judgments and settlements have caused many employers to question the adequacy of their limits. Advisen's large loss database can help you get a handle on the value of top-dollar lawsuits.
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| Investext Reports for 70 Industries
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08/17/2004
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| What issues are impacting the sector you follow? How else can you gain insight into a specific industry? Advisen offers the most timely Wall Street research from Investext Reports on over 70 industries.
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| 36 of the Top 100 Brokers Use Advisen
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08/16/2004
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| Advisen is pleased to announce that 36 of the Top 100 brokerage firms ranked by Business Insurance are subscribers to Advisen's professional service.
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| Ask the Godfather of Benchmarking
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08/10/2004
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| With Advisen's newest Benchmarking software fueled by over 38,000 insurance programs, you get accurate Benchmarking results in seconds. Advisen's Benchmarking software also lets you review historical trends, compare coverages across lines, and delineate only the comparable policy data you want to include in your study. But what's the best way to shape the output to meet your needs? Ask Jim Blinn. Jim is our Senior Benchmark Specialist at Advisen. Access to Jim and our Advisen Help Desk is included i your subscription. Reach Jim at +1.212.897.4830 or jblinn@advisen.com.
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| What is Advisen for Underwriters?
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08/08/2004
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| Much more than Front Page News, Advisen builds a customized single front-end solution, with work-ups and templates which automatically populate data needed by underwriters. If you would like to receive a pdf document that describes how our underwriting customers use Advisen, contact Luis Leguizamon at +1.212.897.4797 or lleguizamon@advisen.com
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| Add Yourself to Front Page News Distribution
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07/26/2004
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| Is someone forwarding Advisen's Front Page News to you? Why not get it from the source to insure you never miss a day? Send an e-mail to Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com to get yourself added to this free daily news service of articles impacting the commercial insurance arena.
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| Over 60 Detailed Industry Reports
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07/22/2004
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| Are you working with a company in an industry that's not your primary focus? Advisen provides details for each different industry so you are always prepared. Whether calling on a new prospect in an unfamiliar business or reviewing the risks of a potential insured, the fastest way to understand what is happening in that industry is to review an Advisen Industry Report generated by Advisen's own research staff.
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| Advisen Did You Know: Enhance Presentations with Benchmarking
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07/08/2004
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| Looking for a unique way to distinguish your brokerage firm in a crowded marketplace? You can run the policy data from your firm through the Advisen Benchmarking software to produce customized Benchmark graphs. If you would like to know more about combining the policy data your firm has with the Benchmarking software from Advisen, contact Jeff Cohen, our Head of Sales, at 212.897.4820 or jcohen@advisen.com
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| Investext Reports on 29000 Companies
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07/07/2004
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| Advisen offers the most timely Wall Street research from Investext Reports on over 29,000 companies that have publicly traded securities. The reports show up in their original format. The immediate benefit of this data means you know the latest perspectives of securities analysts assessing the same company.
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| Benchmarking Drag & Drop
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07/06/2004
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| New functionality in Advisen now allows you to click on a Benchmarking chart or graph and simply drag it with your mouse to an open window of Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint. For more details on how you can better utilize the 35,000 insurance programs already in Advisen for Benchmarking, contact your Advisen rep or reach Amanda Guzik, our head of account management at aguzik@advisen.com
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| How is Kidnap & Ransom Increasing?
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06/30/2004
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| Consider this scenario - a client is preparing to renew their Kidnap & Ransom insurance and wants comparable company data first. Click open this article to see how the latest software release from Advisen makes this exercise easy.
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| Global Reports Now Included in Advisen
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06/23/2004
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| Advisen now includes actual annual reports, interim reports, quarterlies, and even prospectuses for 20,000 public companies around the world. The Global Reports library covers companies from 69 countries and dates back to 1996.
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| What is Advisen for Brokers?
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06/22/2004
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| For brokers, Advisen automatically populates analytics such as policy comparisons, prospect searches, and benchmarking across all lines. Brokers rely on Advisen to obtain specific client intelligence for over 1.2 million companies. If you would like to receive a PDF document that details how our brokerage customers use Advisen to retain business, open new accounts and cross-sell existing accounts, contact Jeff Cohen at +1.212.897.4820 or jcohen@advisen.com.
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| Give the Free Gift of Front Page News
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06/15/2004
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| The Advisen Front Page News summarizes the daily news stories impacting the commercial insurance arena. We will gladly add a colleague or client to our distribution list to receive free our daily email of the Front Page News headlines. Send an email to Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com or call Advisen at +1.212.897.4800
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| Policy Comparison Library Soars Past 500
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06/11/2004
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| How many times has a specific policy comparison drained hours of your time? Located under the POLICY & LAW COMPARISON tab, Advisen lets you quickly compare any two of over 500 policies from a variety of lines of business. The Advisen policy library encompasses professional lines, EPLI, environmental, medical malpractice, E&O, fiduciary liability and Umbrella & Excess. Now we are adding Canadian, United Kingdom and European policies to our library.
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| Comparing Captive Domiciles
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06/09/2004
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| Compare captive domiciles from Bernuda and Vermont to Gilbraltar and Hong Kong. Check a variety of details such as number of captives or fees or formation steps. A benefit for brokers is that you can be proactive for your risk manager clients as you quickly and easily compare captive domiciles on their behalf.
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| Large Loss Database Growing
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06/07/2004
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| We have compiled statistics and details on over 800 large losses and we are still digging. Our earliest entry comes from 1976. This database contains all forms of management liability losses such as securities class actions, auditing and other management malpractice, state and federal government regulatory fines, employment liability cases and errors and omissions. Brokers get an additional benefit by being able to see the baseline risks for specific industries.
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| Get Up To Speed On A Company Fast
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06/04/2004
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| Racing off to a meeting with no time to spare? With one click, Advisen provides you with a snapshot that summarizes your client's business, news and recent developments, financials, growth rates, revenue breakdowns, corporate officers and compensation, and peers and competitors. Advisen's database encompasses over 1.2 million companies. Select any company and click OVERVIEW. For more help, call Advisen at +1.212.897.4800
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| Free Customized Training
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05/31/2004
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| Would you be more effective if you knew everything that Advisen had to offer as part of your Advisen login? We think so. Contact your Advisen rep or Amanda Guzik, our head of customer support, at +1.212.897.4807 or aguzik@advisen.com to make this happen.
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| RIMS Benchmark Survey Book - Insurance Pricing Guide Available
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05/20/2004
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| Free copies of the latest edition of this leading reference source for insurance buyers have already been sent to those companies that contributed their policy data. Now the remaining copies of this insurance pricing guide are available for purchase. To order, open this document and click on the URL shown. The 180 page book is aimed specifically at risk managers, insurance buyers, insurance brokers and insurance market researchers who need a hardcopy reference tool to supplement their market perspectives.
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| Over 1.2 Million Companies Are In the Advisen Database
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05/19/2004
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| Does your business revolve around public companies exclusively? Neither does ours. The latest software version from Advisen includes company specific data on over 1.2 million companies. Public companies comprise less than 2 percent of the Advisen Master File (AMF) listings though public companies are all there. For every entry, we tie descriptions, financials, news, and more to one place. Using the AMF, you can concentrate on knowing more about your client or prospect instead of having to turn yourself into a data-gatherer clicking forever to get the results you want.
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| Program Benchmarking by Market Cap
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05/18/2004
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| The latest version of Benchmarking software from Advisen allows you to select policy data using Market Capitalization. That means you can choose policies to benchmark that match your specific market cap selections. This is particularly useful for management liability areas, such as D&O coverages, where management wants to gauge coverage limits based on what other similarly valued companies are purchasing. Our Benchmarking software quickly produces views of current and historical premiums, retentions and limits for similar companies.
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| Broker Investigation Updates Available
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05/04/2004
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| Advisen offers e-mail updates on the breaking broker contingent compensation investigation. To subscribe, please send an e-mail to Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com or call +1.212.897.4820
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| Big Brokers Under Fire Briefing Available
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04/28/2004
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| Advisen has a new briefing available concerning the contingent commissions investigations. If you would like to receive a copy of this briefing or would like to be kept updated as Advisen follows this topic, please send an e-mail to Jeff Cohen at jcohen@advisen.com or call +1.212.897.4820
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| Quickview Menus Enhanced
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03/31/2004
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| Advisen's Company and Industry Quickview menus have been reorganized to allow for better flexibility and functionality for our Members. Type in a ticker or company name and view additional data links, such as a longer business summary description or executive compensation. Click the title above to get more details or call Advisen at +1.212.897.4800.
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| Additional Corporate Governance Data Now Available
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02/26/2004
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| Advisen's Corporate Governance information has been enhanced to include a second source of analysis. This source is called the Board Analyst Effectiveness Rating Tool and is empowered by The Corporate Library. This source augments the CGQ (Corporate Governance Quotient) provided by ISS already available to Advisen Members. Advisen Members can access Corporate Governance under the Operations tab on the Quickview Menu for a specific company and in the Custom Report template. For more details, call Advisen at +1.212.897.4800 or visit www.advisen.com.
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| 2003 RIMS Benchmark Survey - Orders now being accepted
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02/18/2004
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| The 2003 edition of the leading reference source for risk management professionals will soon be released as a hard copy volume. Different from the previous 2001 version, this year's 2003 edition contains insurance year 2003 data. Also, several new features have been added including detailed coverage analysis of six major insurance lines of business, editorial content about the state of the insurance market, and industry analysis and review. To place your advance order, go to the RIMS online store at www.rims.org and search product listings for the keyword benchmark.
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| New Briefing About Broker Mergers and Acquisitions
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02/17/2004
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| There is a whole lot of shaking going on. Go to the Market Analysis page to find a new briefing by that very title. See if you agree with our insights about the issues, implications, emerging segments and strategies driven by the insurance brokerage community merger and acquisition activity.
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| Search on SIC Codes
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02/05/2004
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| Looking for a concise list of law firms or tugboat companies? Use the SIC code search feature under Advisen's PROSPECTING tab to search for a specific SIC code or a range of SIC codes. Whether you're focusing on an industry or looking for competitors or peers, Advisen can quickly generate a company list using our Prospecting ability. To learn more, call Advisen at +1.212.897.4820.
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| Policy Comparisons Made Easy
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01/27/2004
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| Located under the Policy and Law Comparison tab, Advisen lets you quickly compare any two of our 420 policies representing a variety of lines of business. Or select one clause to view across all similar policies. We are adding new policies regularly. Watch for a large addition of Medical Malpractice policies shortly. For more details, call Advisen at +1.212.897.4800.
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| Client News Alerts
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01/16/2004
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| Now you can easily get current news of your key clients and prospects. Advisen enables you to set up multiple lists of companies and topics so that you can track all their latest news and developments with just one click. The names of the companies are all you need. We do the rest. Call us at +1.212.897.4800.
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| Company Interlocks
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01/13/2004
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| Advisen has added a new feature to help you determine which company board members and executives serve at other companies. Choose a public company by name or ticker (for example, IBM) and select Company Interlocks under the Operations Tab. To learn more about accessing this capability, call Advisen at 1 212 897-4800.
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| Risk Managers Need Benchmarking
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01/07/2004
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| Risk managers are talking about Benchmarking. At the REBEX and the Real Estate Symposium in Chicago and across the border at the Canada RIMS Conference in Victoria British Columbia Risk Managers say they need benchmarking. Advisen has a unique Chart Your Program functionality which will help risk managers.
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| Policy Comparison Capability
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11/10/2003
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| Located under the Policy and Law Comparison tab, Advisen lets you quickly compare any two or our 350 policies representing 6 lines of business. Or select one clause to view across all similar policies. We are adding new policies regularly. For more details, call Advisen at 1.212.897.4800.
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| RIMS Benchmark Survey Available
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10/28/2003
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| RIMS has teamed with Advisen Ltd. to offer risk managers, insurance brokers and underwriters the first and only real-time window into the commercial insurance market via the RIMS Benchmark Survey. To learn more about accessing and/or contributing to the survey, visit <https://rims.advisen.com> or call Advisen at +1.212.897.4800.
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| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Checklist Available
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10/21/2003
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| Sarbanes-Oxley introduces the most dramatic changes in corporate governance standards since the Roosevelt Administration. Advisen has created a checklist to help assess your client's state of readiness. You can find it as a QuickNote under the Market Analysis tab or call us at +1.212.897.4800.
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| Latest Advisen Briefing
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09/19/2003
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| See the latest Briefing in Advisen. Gain insight on the implications of the recent $10 million securities fraud settlement by AIG on the financial insurance and reinsurance market. Find this and many other Briefings under the Market Analysis Tab - Briefings: Creative Financial Management or Shell Game? Or call (212) 897-4800 for more information.
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