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The Insurance Industry & Regulation

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Annotations to Surplus Lines Statutes, Third Edition

This new edition is the most comprehensive analysis of surplus lines statutes available. It is a concise, single-volume reference that covers state surplus lines statutes, amendments to those statutes, and regulations promulgated in connection with those statutes for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. This ready-reference, with information through September 1998, provides you with information on eight key areas:

  • Statutory Approval Requirements
  • Eligibility Lists
  • Coverage Eligibility
  • Filing and Tax Requirements
  • Self-Procurement as an Alternative to the Surplus Lines Law
  • Service of Process
  • Surplus Lines Associations (SLA) and Stamping Office Information
  • Policy Issuance Requirements

The volume is three-hole punched and the TIPS small format binder is included in the price.

1999 - 6 x 9 - 250 pages - looseleaf/w binder
PC: 5190310
ISBN: 1-57073-476-3 LC: 97-36829
Price: $89.95 (regular price) $79.95 (TIPS members)

ABCs of Excess, Surplus Lines and Reinsurance: How Does a Large Corporation Identify and Manage Complex Risks?

  • Reinsurance at a Glance
  • The Role of Corporate Counsel and Risk Management in Products Liability Litigation
  • Risk Management
  • Surplus Lines Insurance for the Entertainment Industry
  • The Brokers Perspective 
1996 Annual Meeting Program Materials
$25.00
PC # 5190260-A14-96

The Insurance Marketplace in the Year 2000

  • The Impact of Technology
  • Bank Sales of Insurance Products: Legal and Political Dimensions 
1996 Annual Meeting Program Materials
$25.00
PC # 5190260-A28-96

Legal Implications of Marketing Insurance Through Technology

  • An Overview of the Virtual Marketplace
  • Marketing over the Internet: An Insurer s Perspective and Perplexity
  • The Internet, Insurance and Employment Relations Issues
  • A Regulator s Viewpoint 
1996 Annual Meeting Program Materials
$25.00
PC # 5190260-A22-96

Where Will Our Relationship Go?
Pressures on the Tri-Partite Relationship

  • Limiting Confidential Information of the Insured to the Insurer and the Role of Outside Counsel;
  • Ethical Considerations and the Tri-Partite Attorney-Insured-Insurer Relationship Confidential Communication between Lawyer, Client and Insurer 
1996 Annual Meeting Program Materials
$25.00
PC # 5190260-A30-96

What Is Insurance and Who Will Regulate It?

  • Securization and Structured Finance Transactions for the Insurance Industry
  • Life Insurance: Forces Propelling Regulatory Changes
  • Health Insurance Issues 
1996 Annual Meeting Program Materials
$25.00
PC #5190260-A39-96

European Insurance Law: A Primer for the U.S. Practitioner

Focusing on aspects of particular interest to U.S. insurers, this new book will provide you with an overview of Lloyds of London and the development of European Community insurance legislation. It covers what European companies and Lloyds expect from their U.S. lawyers, and discusses insurer and reinsurer solvency issues including:

  • U.S. and English perspectives of transnational aspects of insurance and reinsurance insolvency
  • Consequences for U.S. policyholders from insurer insolvencies in the London market
  • Concerns of insurance carriers in dealing with Lloyds and the London market
  • How to enforce and collect judgement against alien insurers

Plus, additional chapters discuss regional and global trends in torts and insurance, and the two major pending trade agreements that would liberalize trade in insurance services-NAFTA and GATS. 

 
1994 448 pages 8-1/2 x 11 paper 
ISBN: 1-57073-037-7 LC: 94-72689 
$69.95 (regular price) $64.95 (TIPS member price) 
PC: 5190243


Law and Practice of Life Insurance Company Insolvency

This new edition will alert you to the most significant problems you'll face in a life insurance insolvency. Bringing together 23 articles from leading legal and insurance industry experts, it will guide you through the issues confronting the industry today, from current state insurance guaranty association laws, to reinsurance issues, to the lessons learned from recent large insurance company insolvencies. Chapters cover:

  • Managing a life insurance insolvency
  • Life and health insurance guaranty associations
  • Reinsurance and assumption reinsurance
  • The responsibilities and liabilities of accountants and actuaries
  • ERISA liability of fiduciaries and federal taxation
  • Health, HMO and related entity insolvencies 
 
1993 448 pages 8 ½ x 11 paper 
LC: 93-71490 ISBN: 0-89707-858-6 
$79.95 (regular price) $74.95 (TIPS member price) 
PC: 5190227


Reference Handbook on Insurance Company Insolvency, Third Edition

This Handbook includes an updated compilation of model statutes, case law digests of insolvency-related decisions, and other valuable resource materials. Topics include:

  • Supervision, rehabilitation, and liquidation of insurance companies
  • Property and casualty guaranty funds
  • Life and health guaranty funds
  • Assumption reinsurance, Federal Arbitration Act, Federal Court Abstention Act, and McCarron-Ferguson Act

The book also contains state-by-state summaries of legislation; case law digests; useful directories of state insurance departments and casualty guaranty fund boards; and a comprehensive bibliography on insurer insolvency, rehabilitation and liquidation, and guaranty funds. 

 
1993 1,128 pages 8 ½ x 11 paper 
LC: 93-71491 ISBN: 0-89707-857-8 
$99.95 (regular price) $94.95 (TIPS member price) 
PC: 5190226


Package Available 

 
Save $20 when you order both Law and Practice of Life Insurance Company Insolvency and its accompanying Reference Handbook as a set. 
$159.00 (regular price) $149.00 (TIPS member price) 
PC: 5190230


Insurance Agent and Broker Liability: Current Litigation and Emerging Case Law

These six articles provide the background and strategies you need to represent agents and brokers or clients making claims against them. Topics include the specific instances that can lead to liability, the duties and obligations of agents and brokers, the remedies available, the common defenses, and the kinds of errors and omissions policies available.

Along with numerous practical strategies for the defense of agents and brokers, the book will alert you to the protective measures that can be taken and ethical implications of advising clients on these matters. 

 
1991 178 pages 8 ½ x 11 paper 
LC 91-55166 ISBN 0-89707-657-5 
$39.95 
PC: 5190144


Resolving Reinsurance Disputes: Contracts, Arbitration, Litigation

This volume contains eight papers on these increasingly complex disputes as well as the steps you can take to resolve them. It includes discussions of:

  • Reinsurance arbitration
  • The Life Reinsurance Contract
  • Attempts by nonparties to reach proceeds of the reinsurance agreement
  • International reinsurance litigation 
 
1989 304 pages 8 ½ x 11 paper 
LC: 89-45147 ISBN: 0-89707-431-9 
$42.95 (regular price) $37.95 (TIPS member price) 
PC: 5190088


The State of Insurance Regulation

This book presents an exhaustive exploration of insurance regulation today. Published for a 1991 National Institute, these 16 articles will inform you about the origin and development of the present system and will alert you to:

  • The move toward federal standards of solvency
  • Alternatives to outmoded mechanisms
  • Solutions to interstate conflict
  • The regulation of insolvencies

Special attention is given to the regulation of specific industry segments, as well as the future of guaranty associations and the regulation of intermediaries. 

 
1991 405 pages 8 ½ x 11 paper 
LC: 91-55374 ISBN: 0-89707-686-9 
$69.95 (regular price) $59.95 (TIPS member price) 
PC: 5190142


Insurance Company Takeovers: Issues and Strategies

This volume offers you an insider's look at insurance company takeovers, presenting the views of insurance regulators as well as attorneys representing an international acquirer, a domestic acquirer, and two target companies. 

 
1990 160 pages 8 ½ x 11 paper 
LC: 90-85036 ISBN: 0-89707-625-7 
$44.95 (regular price) $39.95 (TIPS member price) 
PC: 5190135

Cushioning Against Insurance Cycles: The Role of Risk Retention and Purchasing Groups

This book will show you how the 1986 Federal Risk Retention Act and similar legislation works and how insurance consumers can protect themselves from disastrous market cycles. 

 
1989 64 pages 8 ½ x 11 paper 
LC: 89-84342 ISBN: 0-89707-468-8 
$34.95 (regular price) $29.95 (TIPS member price) 
PC: 5190093

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