Sections
| Title | Starting Page | Number of Pages |
|---|
| CONTENTS | 10 | 2 |
| A Short Insurance Industry Glossary | 12 | 21 |
| INTRODUCTION | 33 | 2 |
| HOW TO USE THIS BOOK | 35 | 4 |
| Chapter 1 | 39 | 19 |
| Introduction to the Insurance Industry | 39 | 3 |
| Aging Populations Create Challenges and Opportunities for the Insurance Industry | 42 | 1 |
| Selling Insurance to Consumers in Discount Stores May Grow | 43 | 1 |
| Sophisticated Risk Management and Prevention Programs Lead to Lower Losses | 43 | 1 |
| Independent Agencies Continue toDominate Commercial Insurance, but Play a Lesser Role in Personal Lines | 44 | 1 |
| Insurance Direct Selling and E-Commerce Grow | 44 | 1 |
| Technology Drives Efficiencies in Back Office Tasks, Underwriting, Agency Networks and Customer Service | 45 | 2 |
| Homeowner s Insurance Passes More Risk to the Policy Holders and Relies on Sophisticated Risk Analysis Tools to Set Rates | 47 | 1 |
| Insurance Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Continue | 48 | 1 |
| No End in Sight to the Growth of Specialized Insurance Lines | 49 | 1 |
| Variable Annuity Accounts Decline in Value/New Product Strategies Evolve | 50 | 1 |
| Major U.S., Japanese and European Insurance Firms See Vast Promise in the Chinese and Southeast Asia Market | 51 | 1 |
| Insurers Target Developing Markets | 51 | 1 |
| Continued Rise in Health Care Costs | 52 | 1 |
| Employers Push Health Care Costs onto Employees/On-Site Clinics Begin to Appear | 52 | 1 |
| Malpractice Suits Are Blamed for Rising Health Care Costs/Tort Reform Is Capping Awards for Damages | 53 | 2 |
| Medicare Changes Include Drug Benefits for Seniors/Medicare Advantage Offers Private Fee for Service Plans | 55 | 1 |
| Hedge Funds Enter the Reinsurance Field in a Big Way | 56 | 1 |
| Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Derivatives Soar into the Trillions of Dollars | 56 | 2 |
| Chapter 2 | 58 | 17 |
| Insurance Industry Overview | 59 | 1 |
| Major Insurance-Related Merger &Acquisition Deals, U.S.: 2008 | 60 | 1 |
| Top 25 Global Insurance Companies by Revenues: 2008 | 61 | 1 |
| Top 20 Global Property &Casualty Insurance Companies by Revenues: 2008 | 62 | 1 |
| Assets &Liabilities of U.S. Property-Casualty Insurance Companies: 2003-2nd Quarter 2009 | 63 | 1 |
| Typical U.S. Automobile Insurance Costs, per Year: 2009 | 64 | 1 |
| Top 20 Global Life Insurance Companies by Revenues: 2008 | 65 | 1 |
| Assets &Liabilities of U.S. Life Insurance Companies: 2003-2nd Quarter 2009 | 66 | 1 |
| Top 20 Global Health Insurance Companies by Revenues: 2008 | 67 | 1 |
| People without Health Insurance for the Entire Year, U.S.: 2007-2008 | 70 | 1 |
| Percent of Persons under Age 65 without Health Insurance Coverage, by Age Group &Sex: U.S.: 2008 | 71 | 1 |
| Percent of Persons under Age 65 with Public Health Plan Coverage &Private Health Insurance Coverage by Age Group, U.S.: 1997-2008 | 72 | 1 |
| Employment in the Insurance Industry, U.S.: 2001-2008 | 73 | 1 |
| Employment &Earnings in Insurance Industry Occupations, U.S.: May 2008 | 74 | 1 |
| Chapter 3 | 75 | 20 |
| Chapter 4 | 95 | 360 |
| INDUSTRY LIST, WITH CODES | 96 | 1 |
| INDEX OF RANKINGS WITHIN INDUSTRY GROUPS | 97 | 9 |
| ALPHABETICAL INDEX | 106 | 3 |
| INDEX OF HEADQUARTERS LOCATIONBY U.S. STATE | 109 | 3 |
| INDEX OF NON-U.S. HEADQUARTERS LOCATION BY COUNTRY | 112 | 2 |
| INDEX BY REGIONS OF THE U.S. WHERE THE FIRMS HAVE LOCATIONS | 114 | 9 |
| INDEX OF FIRMS WITH INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS | 123 | 3 |
| Individual Profiles On Each Of THE INSURANCE 300 | 126 | 329 |
| ADDITIONAL INDEXES | 455 | 33 |
| INDEX OF FIRMS NOTED AS HOT SPOTS FOR ADVANCEMENT FOR WOMEN &MINORITIES | 456 | 2 |
| INDEX OF SUBSIDIARIES, BRAND NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS | 458 | 30 |
