Magazines

Table of Contents
September 4, 2006
West Edition
The Commissioners
Features
Editor's Note: Kick start my heart ... but don't steal my "bike"
Michigan Supreme Court shows judicial restraint with asbestos decision
The Commissioners
What the West Coast can learn from the Gulf Coast
Get your motor runnin' -- not stolen
Taking care of business
Surplus lines designation curriculum updated; good fit for retailers as well
Know thyself; insure thyself
Putting the brakes on paratransit operator losses
Understanding the surety process
Competition hits Surplus Lines Market
XL E&S enters the specialty market
Departments
Currents
- Navigating Washington's business and occupation tax tangle
- Establishing ethics for insurance professionals
- Size up subsidence and earth movement exclusions
- Taking aim at your target market
- California senator introduces permanent disability
- Chubb, State Farm reducing auto rates in California
- It Figures
- Worst red tide in years hits Puget Sound
- Bill introduced to allow DOI to oversee California State Fund
- Associations oppose eliminating contingent commissions
- Child safety seat bill passes legislature
- Pharmacy issues critical in controlling workers' comp costs
- Washington appoints assistant attorney general
- Allstate drops Alaska earthquake coverage
- Businesses file first in series of lawsuits against competitors
- Insurance costs stop volunteer doctors in Idaho
- Washington governor declares wildfire emergency
- Study hits states without helmet laws
- U.S. traffic deaths on the rise
- Guy Carpenter report examines impact and risks of nanotechnology
- Premiums remain flat in second quarter except in hurricane-exposed regions, risk managers report
- First post-Katrina court decision a victory for insurers
- Cultivating a management mentality
- Study urges better efforts to prevent teen worker injuries
- Deal makers and deal breakers
- New study finds coastal population drain following hurricanes
Fraud Roundup
New Markets
Newsbriefs
- WHAT CLAIMS ADVICE IS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY AFTER A DISASTER?
- WHO PREPARES AND SUBMITS CLAIMS?
- BLACK BOXES IN AUTOS MUST BE DISCLOSED
- REINSURERS 'HUMBLED, BUT MOST NOT BROKEN'

