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1993

December 1, 1993
Vol. 5, No. 4
An Insurance Industry Paradox: The vision thing… 1

You Want Deals? We Got Deals: PartnerRe raises $1 billion · Lutine Capital: Lloyd's of London with limited liability · Debt Be Not Proud: Reliance Group… 2

Some Rob You With a Six-gun, Some With a Fountain Pen: The New York State Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund teeters on the brink of solvency… 5

AIG: Swaps and Derivatives… 7

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up: David Schiff attends the annual insurance brokers' junket at the Greenbrier and bites the hand that feeds him · For whom the Lutine Bell tolls… 8

James Grant. 'Observer' Extraordinaire: The world's greatest financial writer… 10

The Insurance Beat: Breast implant coverage · A&A at the crossroads, and much more… 11
October 1, 1993
Vol. 5, No. 3
Gala Reinsurance and Catastrophe Issue Reinsurance Alchemy: Zurich Reinsurance Centre and Mid Ocean show how it's done · Berkshire Hathaway's Ajit Jain ·

Catastrophe Reinsurance Price Index… 1

The Price Was Right: E.W. Blanch cashes in… 5

Hugh Hefner, The Sultan of Brunei, and the Chairman of Conseco:… 6

The Will Rogers of Insurance Rating Agencies: A.M. Best almost never meets an insurance company it doesn't like · A surprising letter… 7

'An Unreasonable Risk of Insolvency': So says Prudential Property and Casualty · A.M. Best: wrong again. · Allstate's probable maximum loss-bigger than you might think… 8

I Was a 'Street'-wise Patsy: David Schiff gets snookered in Hungary… 10

The Insurance Beat: Insurance happenings from around the world: Dan Quayle · The 'Bristol Bleeder' · AIG's Laissez-faire, and much more… 11