Publishers and
Publications
Updated: August
6, 2001
For
corrections or additions, please E-mail
me
Compliments
of G. Barry Klein, CPCU, CLU
- AAIS (American Association of Insurance
Services) (Bureau for Inland Marine, & more)
- ACORD
(Standards-setting organization for the insurance industry)
- Actuarial Jokes (Jerry
Tuttle's library of actuarial humor)
- Agency Ideas (Sales,
other
publications from the Shulman Consulting Group)
- agencytimesaver.com
(MGA/wholesaler reference site, for CA)
- AlocalAgent.com (Free electronic listing of local insurance agents, by
state)
- A. M. Best Company (Financial
ratings, and much more)
- American Agent & Broker
("The Magazine For Insurance Agency Success")
- American College(CLU, ChFC &
other life insurance designations)
- American
Educational Institute
(Self-study courses, and claims professional designations)
- American Institute for Chartered Property
Casualty Underwriters (Textbooks & study guides)
- Andrews Publications ("The
Litigator's Choice")
- Appeals Board Reporter
(Workers comp appeals board reports, searchable database)
- Aspen Publishers
(Healthcare publications)
- Atlantic Informations Services (AIS)
(Publisher of medical news & data)
- Bar List
Publishing Company
(Directories of adjusters, counsel)
- Beneficiary
Basics (Joe
Chopp's book on how to do it properly)
- Benefits Information Group
(Published listings of employee benefit plans, geographically)
- BestWeek
(Weekly publication from A. M. Best)
- Betterley
Report (Publisher
of the EPLI Market Survey & other evaluations)
- Boeckh (Large
provider of building cost information)
- Broker News Online
(Online issue, covers both P&C and L&H, & download back issues)
- The Burnham System (CPCU and
other professional designation training material)
- Business Insurance (Large
weekly magazine, lots of information)
- California Workers’ Compensation
Enquirer (Web sight for this long-time California publication)
- Cal-OSHA Reporter (Check out their
searchable Decisions database … Cool!!)
- Canadian
Electronic Claims Directory
(Connecting Canadian claims folks)
- Canadian Insurance
(Canadian insurance magazine)
- Canadian Underwriter (Monthly
Canadian insurance magazine)
- CaptiveGuru.com
(e-publication, all about captives)
- Casualty
Risk Publishing
(Educational publications)
- Chase Communications
(Insurance Advocate, International Insurance Monitor, others)
- CII Library
Online (UK's
Charter Insurance Institute's library)
- ClaimRep.com
(Resource site for adjusters)
- Claims Magazine (Covering the
business of loss)
- The Claims Page (Michael Kay’s
excellent resource page for claims adjusters)
- Claims
People (Quarterly
magazine for claims folk)
- ClaimSchool, Inc. (Claims-related books by author/columnist/attorney Barry
Zalma)
- ClaimsDirectory.com
(Directory of over 6,000 adjusters)
- Content.com
(Searchable database of insurance-related articles)
- Crittenden Publishing (Lots
of different market newsletters, check out their new site)
- CSR
Cross-Selling
(P&C cross-selling ideas and tools)
- D & O
Maps (In depth
comparative analysis of D&O policies)
- Dearborn Publishing (Licensing,
continuing education, and lots more)
- Demotech, Inc. (Financial stability
ratings, state filings assistance, & actuarial services)
- Demutualization.Org (Site
devoted to the issue of insurance company demutualization)
- Duff &
Phelps (Financial ratings of insurance companies, sorted multiple ways)
- E-Claim.com
(Resource site for adjusters)
- Financial Services Online
(Financial & insurance news, on their site & by e-mail)
- Florida's
Insurance News
(Monthly Florida magazine)
- FYI:
Georgia Views & News
(Eddie Emmett's insurance industry newsletter)
- Global Reinsurance
(Leading publication for the reinsurance industry)
- Griffin Communications (‘Umbrella
Book’, ‘EPL Book’ & others from Warren, McVeigh & Griffin)
- Harkey & Associates (The
Harkey Report, Managed WorkComp)
- Hart Information Services (Paper
& electronic forms)
- Hill Publishing
(P&C and Life/Health publications)
- Hine's
Directories
(Directories of adjusters, insurance counsel)
- Hollander Interchange
Manuals (Lists millions of auto parts, & their
interchangeable equivalents)
- IBT Financial
(Internet-based continuing education courses)
- Independent Agent
(Official magazine of the Independent
Insurance Agents of America)
- Insurance Achievement (CPCU and other
professional designation training material)
- Insurance and Financial
Services Research Station (Makoto Okubo's excellent insurance research
site)
- Insurance and Technology
Magazine (Online copy of the magazine, other info)
- Insurance Canada
(Central insurance site, maintained by Canadian
Insurance magazine)
- Insurance Compliance Week
(New weekly newsletter for insurance compliance folks)
- Insurance Day
(International insurance news)
- The
Insurance Forum
(Joseph Belth's insurance publication)
- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
(IIHS) (Really full site, chock-full of information)
- Insurance
Journal (Daily news for the P & C insurance industry)
- Insurance Law List
(Over 5,500 law firms that represent carriers & self-insureds)
- Insurance Market Finder
(Specialty lines directory)
- Insurance Marketing & Management
Services (IMMS) (Programs, tapes, +)
- Insurance
Marketplace (Rough
Notes' specialty lines directory)
- Insurance Networking (New publication
from Faulkner & Gray)
- Insurance
Newslink
(Insurance news, with commentary)
- Insurance News
Net
(Current insurance news, on the ‘net)
- Insurance On Site Review
(Online publication of insurance news and site reviews)
- Insurance Research Letter
(Global insurance news & statistics, since 1966)
- Insurance Research &
Publishing (IRP) (Global insurance research)
- Insurance Services Network (ISN)
(Check out the 'country' information, it's great!)
- Insurance Services Office (ISO) (Rate
& rule manuals, forms, etc.)
- Insurance Taxation & Regulation
Publications (Various taxation, actuarial, and regulatory publications)
- Insurance Times
(P&C, L&H magazine serving the northeast)
- InsuranceStock.com (Bob
Hogue’s site with insurance stock information and research reports)
- Insure
Tech ('Insurance
Strategies' series of continuing ed classes)
- Insure.com
('The Insurance Guide', for consumers & professionals)
- IOMA
('Property/Casualty Rates & Ratings' and 'Preventing Business Fraud'
newsletters)
- IRMI
(International Risk
Management Institute) (Practical references, articles, courses)
-
- IRMI
Update (Free e-zine with tips, commentary, and links to
articles)
- JCRS (Publisher of Jewelry
Insurance Manual)
- Jim's Marine Insurance
Links (Jim Thompson's marine megasite, 'oceans' of links - get it?)
- John Cooke Insurance Fraud Report
(These people know the insurance fraud problem)
- Journal of Commerce (See their
'Insurance in Brief' section, it's excellent)
- Keir, Jack, Inc. (CPCU &
other supplemental study materials)
- Kelley Blue Book (New, used
car pricing)
- Kinder Brothers International
(Sales training programs & supplies, for insurance)
- Knowledge Digest
(All kinds of info on risk, especially financial; a division of MIB)
- Life
Insurance Boot Camp
(Now in its 3rd edition)
- Life
Insurance Selling
(For top life, health, & financial services producers)
- Life
Insurers Fact Book, 2000
(Crammed with useful info, from ACLI)
- Long-Term Care Sales Strategies
(Newsletter to help producers sell long-term care insurance)
- Loss
Mitigation Guide with Standards (LMGS)
(Priority One Mitigation)
- LTC
Connection (Online
resource for the LTC insurance professional)
- Marshall & Swift
(Construction cost publications and software)
- Martin & Company
('Penn. Insurance Advisor', 'Professional Liability Report', other services)
- MDRT
Center for Productivity
(Products, productivity tools for life insurance professionals)
- Mealey Publications
(Lots of publications, many dealing with insurance litigation)
- R. S. Means Company, Inc.
(Construction cost information, printed and electronic)
- Merritt Publishing (Professional
publishing for the insurance industry)
- Moody's (Financial ratings of
insurance and other companies)
- Mr. Long-Term Care
(Impressive weekly Internet magazine about long-term care)
- MSO (Mutual Service Office) (NJ-based
rating & statistical service bureau)
- N.A.D.A.
Guides (New, used
car pricing)
- National Association of Surety
Bond Producers (NASBP) (training manuals & videos)
- National Council on Compensation
Insurance (NCCI) (Workers comp rates, rules, & forms)
- National Insurance Law Service (NILS)
(All the state & federal insurance laws)
- National Underwriter
Company (Many publications & products)
- Oden Insurance Services (Regulatory
research products)
- On The Risk (on line version of the Journal of the Academy of Life
Underwriting)
- PBD, Inc. (Fulfillment company for CPCU and Jack Keir, Inc. study materials)
- Pictorial (Licensing, continuing
education courses, and other training material)
- Port4 (Online community
about e-finance & e-insurance)
- Practical Risk Management (Excerpts
from some of their issues)
- PropertyAndCasualty.Com
(Online insurance industry resource site)
- Property/Casualty
Insurance (NAMIC's
bi-monthly publication)
- Property Loss Research Bureau (PLRB)
(Wonderful property claims research material)
- Reinsurance
Contacts
(Directory of reinsurance services)
- Reinsurance News Network (NewsRe)
(Information and news about the reinsurance business)
- Reuters Insurance
News (Insurance news from this major English news service)
- The Review
(Worldwide reinsurance magazine)
- Risk & Insurance
(Risk management, benefits, insurance, & reinsurance publication)
- Risk Information, Inc.
(Brian Sullivan's Auto Insurance Report and Property Insurance Report)
- Risk Retention Reporter (Risk retention
& purchasing groups)
- Risk World (News &
views on risk assessment & management)
- RiskBiz (Electronic magazine, with a
global risk management focus)
- RiskINFO (Wonderful resource site
for Risk Management professionals)
- Rough Notes Company (Read the
current & old copies online)
- Russian
Insurance (English-language version of 'O Strakhovanii', monthly 'On
Insurance' magazine)
- Sales
Autopsy (Horror
stories from sales war correspondent Dan Seidman)
- Senior
Market Advisor
(Magazine for agents selling to the maturing market)
- Sheshunoff Information Services,
Inc. (NAIC data on the ‘net and on CD, and other stuff, too)
- Smart's
Publishing Group
('Smart's Insurance Bulletin', & more)
- SNL Securities (Large line of insurance
financial publications)
- Sounding
Line (John
Ashenhurst's insurance-Internet publication)
- South
Carolina Insurance News Service (Insurance issues affecting
SC)
- Standard &
Poors (Financial Strength Ratings of carriers on line ... and free)
- Standard Publishing
(John Liner Letter and many, many more publications)
- SteveAnderson.com
(Great tips & info from this well-known insurance columnist)
- TAAR (The Automated Agency
Report) (Rick Morgan's software analyses)
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- Technology Decisions
(Insurance technology magazine, from the National
Underwriter)
- Tempest House
(Research & analysis focused on emerging Internet insurance issues)
- Thompson's
World Insurance News
(Canada's weekly insurance news)
- Trusts & Estates
(Online version of this wealth management publication)
- UK
Insurance Web Guide
(Simon Conroy's listing of UK insurance links)
- Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
(Country's leading testing laboratory)
- Underwriters' Report ('The West's
leading insurance weekly magazine')
- Uniform Information Systems
(Complianceware, & largest supplier of insurance forms)
- Frank R. Walker Company
(‘Walker’s Building Estimator’s Reference Book’, and other things, too)
- Ward Financial Group (Financial
analysis and benchmarking of carriers, using NAIC data)
- Warren, McVeigh & Griffin
(Risk Mgmt consultants, also publishers of ‘Umbrella Book’ & others)
- WebCE.com (Web-based
Continuing Education courses)
- The
Wedge (Randy
Schwantz' popular book & sales method)
- Weiss Ratings (Financial
ratings of almost all insurance companies)
- Werbel Publications (Insurance
licensing exam preparation material)
- Workcomp.com
(Worker's comp resource for agents & brokers)
- WorkCompCentral.com
(Forms, case law, other resource information)
- Workers’ Comp Advisor
(State-specific workcomp sites for CA, FL, OH, & TX)
- Workers' Comp Executive (Paper
& free e-mail coverage of the Calif. Workcomp
marketplace)
- Barry Zalma, Inc. (Barry’s Insurance
Fraud Letter, and his books by ClaimSchool)