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Summer 2011     Vol. 36, No.1
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Spring 2011     Vol. 35, No.4
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• Insuring Logistics
  Latest Inland Marine Guide form positions
  insurers to write integrated transit,
  storage, and processing operations
• Conference Report on the
  2011 AAIS MAIN EVENT
• The AAIS Agricultural Commercial Excess
  and Umbrella Liability Program
  A companion program for the AgGL
  that works with other industry forms
• Breaking the Herd Mentality
  “Insurance” for mega-transformation
  technology initiatives
  

Winter 2011     Vol. 35, No.3
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• Dealing with dogs
  Standardized canine exclusions
  under review by the states
• The AAIS Homeowners
  By-Peril Rating Plan
  Filings underway; approvals coming in
• Power to (and from)
  the People
  Insuring renewable energy
  raises new coverage questions
• Vertical Integration in Grain Operations
  The potential impact on insurance
• Policy Cancellations and Non-renewals:
  Compliance Challenges
• Volunteer Labor
  Does it increase liability risk?

Fall 2010     Vol. 35, No.2
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• Show me the policy
  NAIC considers pre-purchase
  disclosure requirements
  for personal lines policies
  
  
• The New AAISdirect . . .
  Bringing You The New AAISalliance
  
  
• When building codes “go green”
  What happens if green upgrade coverage
  becomes mandatory?
• One program; two approaches
  AAIS revises its Commercial Umbrella Program
• Selling at farmers’ markets
  Choosing an approach to have
  coverage follow the farmer
• Data breaches expose millions;
  insurers step in to help
  Small business owners face the risk of fines,
  uncovered costs, and customer backlash

Summer 2010     Vol. 35, No.1
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• It’s on you
  More and more medical costs
  being shifted to P/C insurers
• Parents, beware; insurers, too
  Liability for acts of children
  grows in unexpected ways
• Want to insure watercraft?
  Come to AAIS
  With latest Yacht revision, AAIS has
  three programs for insuring private boats
• The uneven economic recovery and
  its impact on commercial insurance
  

Spring 2010     Vol. 34, No.4
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• By-Peril Rating
  AAIS prepares to file by-peril, multivariate
  rating plan for homeowners insurance
• Harnessing Data for Results
  The 2010 AAIS Main Event
  April 11-13, Fort Myers, Fla.
• Antibiotics and livestock
  Will the issue move to the courtroom?
• Inland Marine, 2010
  Competition for accounts and
  talent erodes results

Winter 2010     Vol. 34, No.3
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• What makes a policy
  READABLE?

• Works in Progress
  “Your work” and “faulty workmanship”
  exclusions get some new scrutiny

• Equipment Breakdown in Construction

• Chinese Drywall
  A threat to commercial insurers--
  and to free trade

Fall 2009     Vol. 34, No.2
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• Tremors and numbers
  AAIS’s new Homeowners earthquake rating plan

• Quarantined from coverage
  New commercial lines exclusions
  address communicable diseases
  and disease-causing organisms

• Green liabilities
  Assessing the impact of green construction
  on commercial general liability exposures

• GUEST ESSAY
  2009’s Legislative and Regulatory Activity
  Puts Increased Demands on Insurers

Summer 2009     Vol. 34, No.1
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• Federal financing?
  Congress debates if and how
  the federal government should
  help finance catastrophe recovery

• Marriage, and more
  Who, if anyone, benefits when forms
  are modified to address civil unions
  and domestic partnerships?

• ‘Green’ coverages come
  to builders’ risk insurance
  But the new endorsements are just a start

• Arson and Recession:
  Is there really a connection?

Spring 2009     Vol. 33, No.4
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• What is “pollution?”
  Texas initiates a review of
  pollution liability exclusions

• Dealing with Medicare
  New claim reporting requirement
  just one aspect of the program’s
  growing presence in medical claims

• Conference Report
  on the 2009 AAIS Main Event

• Workplace Defamation:
  False trend or serious threat?

Winter 2009     Vol. 33, No.3
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• Small trucks, big questions
  Micro-utility vehicles have underwriters
  asking whether and where they’re insured

• When bad things happen
  New “expense” coverages straddle the line
  between property and liability insurance

• Agricultural Liability Insurance Rating
  AAIS shifts from acreage-based to sales-based
  rating bases for many farm classes

• The Great Disconnect
  e2Value CEO Todd Rissel explains
  how market values and construction
  costs sometimes correlate--and
  sometimes don’t

• AAIS revises water exclusions
  in new Homeowners forms
  and other programs
  

Fall 2008    Vol. 33, No.2
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• Price Points
  Carriers can offer more choices when loss costs incorporate catastrophe modeling

• Outdoor wood Boilers
  Where there's smoke, there's fire--and water--
  in a new household exposure

• Lovable Property
  Insurers may find themselves paying more
  for policyholders’ injuries to others’ pets

• Builders’ Risk, 2008
  Latest AAIS revision clarifies ‘soft costs’ and
  implements full equipment breakdown coverage

• The federal Office of Insurance Information
  A proposal pulled in 2008, it’ll be back in 2009

Summer 2008    Vol. 33, No.1
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• The AAIS Agricultural General Liability Program
  A new program that will change how
  farms and agribusinesses are insured

• A cycle, or not?
  Homeowners claim frequency
  is down, but for how long?

• The greening of property insurance
  How far will insurers stretch
  the principle of indemnity?

• Crane safety
  Industry experts seek to capitalize
  on public concern over collapses
  to advance safety agenda

• Sounds good, but . . .
  Principles-based regulation gets a
  guarded response from U.S. insurers

Spring 2008    Vol. 32, No.4
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• The 2008 Boatowners Program
  A unique standard program
  gets its third revision

• Matter of law, or matter of contract?
  States start to seek actual prejudice
  standards written into policy forms

• Conference Report on the
  2008 AAIS Main Event

• AAIS and Mutual Boiler Re
  collaborate on equipment breakdown

Winter 2008    Vol. 32, No.3
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• Liability in the age of surveillance
  How much information is too much—or too little?

• Pricing incentives
  Will mandatory discounts and credits
  encourage homeowners to invest in
  windstorm damage mitigation?

• Over-Under
  Common pitfalls of insuring farm personal property

• GUEST ESSAY
  Hurricanes: A Lesson in Catastrophe Risk
  By Rebecca Sukharev,
  Manager of content production,
  Insurance Solutions Group,
  Wolters Kluwer Financial Services

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