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Dozens of World Wide Web
sites may hold information and opportunities of interest to risk
managers. Here is a sampler:
- RISKWeb, an ancillary service of the RISKNet mailing list by
James R. Garven, an insurance and risk management professor at the
University of Texas at Austin. RISKNet is an Internet mailing list
that allows individuals around the world to hold a ``no holds
barred'' discussion of risk management and insurance issues. URL:
http://www.RISKWeb.com.
- NEWSPAGE, an information service developed by Individual Inc., an
electronic clipping service that searches news wires, newspapers and
trade magazines worldwide to find articles relevant to its clients'
industries. If you enter the site via RISKWeb, the search will focus
on insurance and risk management topics. URL:
http://www.newspage.com.
- Insurance News Network, a home page providing comparison quotes
and other information on auto, home and life insurance to consumers
nationwide. URL: http://www.inn.com.
- Insurance Companies and Resources on the Net, a home page that
provides users with a comprehensive listing of insurance industry
web sites. URL:
http://lattanze.loyola.edu/users/cwebb/hotlist.html.
- Insurance Net, an online resource for buyers of both personal and
commercial insurance that provides access to product and market
information. It was developed by Nexus Analytical, an organization
of communications and insurance industry professionals dedicated to
using the Internet as an information vehicle. URL:
http://www.insurancenet.com.
- Captive.com, a page that provides captives, insurance companies,
self-insuring entities, risk retention groups, purchasing groups,
associations, reciprocals and public entity pools with a one-stop
location for the exchange of information and services related to
insurance and risk management. The sponsor is First Partners L.L.P.
URL: http://www.captive.com.
- ARIAWeb, the home page for the American Risk & Insurance
Assn. It includes a hypertext link to the home pages of ARIA
President Norma Nielson and other ARIA officers, as well as an
electronic membership application. URL:
http://www.riskweb.com/aria.html.
- Tools for Searching Risk and Insurance World Wide Web Space helps
Web browsers conduct keyword searches of article abstracts, Risk
Management and Insurance Working Paper Archives, and the Insurance
Fraud Research Register. URL:
http://www.finweb.com/rmisearch.html.
- The Quality Insurance Congress home page is intended to become a
repository of insurance-related quality and benchmarking
information. URL: http://www.-nashville.net/qic95/.
- Jobs in Insurance is an electronic employment agency sponsored by
the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University to provide
information to insurance and risk management job-seekers on skill
requirements, key job areas, Internet resources, salary information,
print resources and industry facts and trends. URL:
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/jobs/insure.htm.
- The CPCU Society's home page encourages professionalism,
continuing education and high ethical standards in the insurance
business to promote excellence in insurance and risk management.
URL: http://insureinfo.com/cpcu/.
- The Health Care Liability Alliance home page, maintained by St.
Louis-based public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard Inc., tracks
federal health care liability reform issues. URL:
http://www.wp.com/hcla/.
- The National Council on Compensation Insurance offers free
workplace safety information on its home page. URL:http://bocaraton.com/ncci/.
- The Insurance Information Institute's Internet search service
provides the full text of many of its consumer brochures, recent
financial results for the property/casualty insurance industry, the
III's catalog of publications and other services. URL:
gopher://infx.infor.com:4200/.
- The South Florida chapter of the Risk & Insurance Management
Society Inc. has its own home page at URL:
http://www.naples.net/clubs/rims.html.
- InsWeb, a Web page maintained by Burlingame, Calif.-based
Strategic Concepts Corp., will act as a centralized insurance
marketplace on the Internet providing not only in-depth insurance
information and resources to facilitate informed insurance buying
decisions but also a direct line to insurance agents, brokers and
insurers. It will begin as a personal lines service, eventually
branching out into commercial lines for small businesses. URL:
http://Insweb.com.
- EQE International Inc.'s home page provides updates on natural
catastrophes around the world and offers general information about
its publications and business risk services. URL:
http://www.-eqe.com.
- "BerBiz,'' an electronic newsletter published by Bermuda
consultant William R. Storie & Co. Ltd., provides information on
the offshore and international insurance and reinsurance industry.
URL: http://www.webcom.com/-wrsl/berbiz.html.
- The Insurance Fraud Bureau's home page provides statistics on
insurance fraud, tips on forming a special investigations unit and
access to its quarterly publication, ``FocusFraud.'' URL:
http://www.ifb.org.
Besides these, many brokerages and insurance
companies maintain sites that can be found by using Web browser
programs, such as Yahoo and
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