Inside This Issue
		NATIONAL COVERAGE
	
Spotlight: Employment Practices Liability
	
Insurance Distribution Chain Transforms to Justify Value, Purpose
	
Report: Liberty Mutual Failed in Bid to Buy Harleysville
	
5 Strategies for P/C Insurers for 2012
	
2012 Excess, Surplus & Specialty Markets Directory, Vol. I
MIDWEST COVERAGE
	
Judge Allows Suit Alleging GE Misled Investors
	
Nebraska Opting Out of NIMA
	
Iowa Workers' Comp Commissioner Files Suit Against Governor
	
Auto Insurance Claims Costs Rising Again
	
Insurance Buyers' Choice: Bigger Premium or Bigger Risk
	
Insurers Brace for Cold Weather Claims
IDEA EXCHANGE
	
Insurance Exchanges Can Provide More than Just Market Access
	
Why Elevator Speeches Defeat Sales
	
Beyond Golf: P-U-T-T-E-R's the Name of the Game in E&S World
	
Growing Your Property Casualty Agency: Shulman
	
International Insider: Ellis
	
Top 25 Performing P/C Insurers: Powell
	
Closing Quote: McElhiney
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