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Issue: March, 2005Language: English
Author:
Elizabeth Benet
Summary: **Available as a PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** This article discusses the legal and practical considerations for employers when religious issues enter the workplace.
Issue: August, 2005Language: English
Authors:
Morris Barto,
Elizabeth Benet
Summary: **Available as PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** This issues discusses Lifestyle discrimination laws and compliance issues; the new BOP endorsement for EPLI protection; claims-made policy wording issues; Age discrimination, Fair Labor Standards Act, and claim waiver decisions. The goal of each EPLI Monitor is to keep marketers informed about the trends and issues that face underwriters in the Employment Practices Liability line of business. Each newsletter features articles on underwriting, marketing and legal issues within the Employment Practices realm as well as interesting loss scenarios and facts that can be used as educational tools for insureds and agents.
Issue: June, 2004Language: English
Authors:
Elizabeth Benet,
Alice Zelikson
Summary: **Available as PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** The goal of each EPLI Monitor, formerly known as EPLI Update, is to keep marketers informed about the trends and issues that face underwriters in the Employment Practices Liability line of business. Each newsletter will feature articles on underwriting, marketing and legal issues within the Employment Practices realm as well as interesting loss scenarios and facts that can be used as educational tools for insureds and agents.
Issue: September, 2001Language: English
Author:
Elizabeth Benet
Summary: **Available as PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** For the last several years, Gen Re has been studying a variety of issues associated with individuals and policyholders' use of the Internet. This article discusses a few key observations.
Issue: December, 2002Language: English
Author:
Elizabeth Benet
Summary: **Available as PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** In 1987 A.M. Best published a checklist for evaluating habitational risks such as fires, the weather, pools and slips and falls. Insurers still do worry about these risks, but the list of property and casualty exposures is now much longer and far more diverse and costly. Mold and terrorism losses rarely if ever contemplated in 1987 are commanding multi-million payments today.
Issue: January, 2004Language: English
Author:
Elizabeth Benet
Summary: **Available as PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** How can insurers predict what exposure will create new liabilities for insurers? Insurers cannot underwrite risks properly without an accurate assessment of the risks, and identifying a new exposure and quantifying its impact are difficult matters. This Insurance Issues newsletter describes ways to identify emerging risks and how our Emerging Issues unit can assist clients in identifying emerging issues.
Issue: January, 2004Language: English
Authors:
Brad Burns-Howard,
Kathleen Ferreira,
Elizabeth Benet,
Douglas Clark,
Mindy Pollack
Summary: **Available as PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** This issue includes articles on business interruption; umbrella exposures from foreign business; legal and underwriting concerns when changing policy forms; new pollution exclusion rulings; and a variety of cases and laws on other important insurance issues.
Issue: May, 2003Language: English
Authors:
Elizabeth Benet,
Mindy Pollack
Summary: **Available as PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** Our second publication (and first newsletter) in this series discusses wording issues important to all insurers and professionals connected with the underwriting or drafting process. We highlight following form excess and claims made triggers in our lead articles, pinpointing weaknesses in forms and suggesting improvements. In other sections we discuss new laws and court decisions affecting standard fire insurance laws and terrorism, intentional acts coverage, business interruption claims, and pollution and professional liability coverage. We also review recent legislation easing filing requirements and offer some practical tips on getting forms approved, so that insurers can get their products into the marketplace faster.
Issue: January, 2003Language: English
Authors:
Elizabeth Benet,
Mindy Pollack
Summary: **Available as PDF only. Hard copies no longer available.** Policy language is inextricably linked to the underwriting success of any insurance program. The best underwriting can be undone by ill-conceived policy wording and undermined by even well-drafted language. This first issue of Policy Wording Matters "discusses ways to improve underwriting results through better policy wording.
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