National News for February 2003 Screening Product for OFAC Compliance Available Fla. Lawmakers Unveil Anti-Fraud Bills S&P’s Report Looks at Multiline Insurers, Guaranties First Set of Proposed Regs on Terrorism Insurance to Provide Insurers with More Certainty S&P’s Report Examines Insurers’ Recent D&O Woes Coalition Says N.J. Drivers Have Fewer Choices Kemper Completes Renewal Rights Agreement with Arch Group on Surety Business P/C Seminars for Product Management, Pricing/Rate Making to be Held Auto Insurance, Workers’ Comp Emerge as Leading Issue Trends Among 2002′s New P/C Laws S&P’s Report Examines U.S. Insurer Failures for 2002 Moody’s Corp. Reports Non-Recurring Gain from Insurance Recovery Asbestos Bill is Common Sense, Says IIABA New Online Course Addresses Terrorism Backstop Mandates ConfirmNet Unveils Auto ID Card Service S&P’s Lowers then Withdraws Various Public Info Ratings PAULMAR Software Finalizes Trust Account Outsourcing Technology ABD Offers Tips on Terrorism Insurance Protection for Businesses Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist to Address IIABA Nat. Legislative Conf. XL Weather & Energy Adds Contingent Risk Team Software AG’s PowerLynX Coverage Reporting Available ACE USA Names New Regional Executive Management Structure Markel American Insurance Co. Unveils Sponsorship for Formula Racing AAI Reports on WSJ Online/Harris Med-Mal Poll P/C Reserves in for Tighter Scrutiny Workers’ Comp Insurers Must Check Criminal List When Claim is Filed Specific Software Solutions Unveils QuickLossPick.com United Agencies’ Equipment Floater to be Managed by APM Platform S&P’s Affirms Employers Re Corp. Ratings, Off Watch; Outlook Negative S&P’s Places Kemper ‘BB+’ Ratings on CreditWatch Neg P/C Insurers Expected to Pay $5.8B for Insured Property-Loss Catastrophe Losses NAII’s Zeman Addresses Griffith Foundation on Benefits of Credit Scoring Rep. Pickering to Address Professional Agents in D.C. April 3 RMS Unveils First Hurricane Model to Include Effects of Extratropical Transition Senate Holds Hearing for Medical Litigation Senate Dems Move to Strip Med Mal Antitrust Exemption Tillinghast Study Reports U.S. Tort Costs Jumped to $205B in 2001 S&P’s Article Discusses Country Risk on Insurer Rtgs. Use of Arbitration for Resolving Inter-Insurance Disputes Jumps Nearly 25 percent in 2002 Gulf Group Posts Online Version of GulfGram on InsuranceJournal.com NAII Notes All States Have Addressed Privacy Legislation, While Handful Have Proposals Pending CertificatesNow Integrates with Applied Systems and IVANS Transformation Station AIA Makes Available New Boiler, Pressure Vessel Laws and Regulations Publication IIABA’s Virtual Univ. Offering New Sales Skills Programs to Ind. Agents, Brokers ACIC Tells Calif. Legislators that Mold is Uninsurable Nesbitt Appointed Marketing Director at Crump Agency Business Systems Notes Interface with WinFSC U.S. House Introduces BiPartisan Health Act of 2003 NAII Supports Medical Liability Reform Efforts in Senate AIA Says Consumer Group Report on N.J. Med-Mal is Misleading More than 2,000 AMS Users’ Group Members Sign Semci Reform Petition AAI Urges ABA to Adopt Recommendations for Asbestos Litigation Tool Helps Insurers Identify, Quantify Terrorism Risks CPCU Society Introduces Four New National Leadership Institute Courses Silverstein Spokesman Replies to Swiss Re Comments; Calls them ‘Cynical, Manipulative’ Zurich North America Reports More than Doubling E-Commerce Policies Underwritten in 2002 Innovative IT Solutions Names Pair to Executive Team I.I.I. Forecast Presents Mixed Bag AIG Reports It Will Add to General Loss Reserves PIA National, Zurich North America Small Business Note National CSR of the Year Award Swiss Re Files Brief in Silverstein Case 21st Century Group CFO Resigns, Will Join Arthur J. Gallagher Workers’ Comp Coverage Varies for Civilian Workers Injured in Acts of War ISO’s iiX Unit Awarded Privacy Council’s Highest Certification for Privacy Practices XN Holdings Unveils XN Risk Services National News Archives