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A&M Women’s week to give
insight into women leaders
By PAULA SAADEH
Reporter
The Aggie Women’s Association
land Women in Communications
Inc. will host Texas A&M Women’s
/eek, Feb. 18-22, beginning with a
seminar about today’s working
[women.
The seminar will have representa
tives from the Association of Profes-
. sional Women of Houston dis
cussing interview techniques,
strategies for success and coping
Iwith work. The seminar begins at
> noon in 206 MSG.
f “Women’s Week provides an op-
Hportunity to women on campus to
gain an insight to style, talent and di
rection of women leaders in the
community,” said Jo Hudson, ad
viser of the Aggie Women’s Associa
tion.
Hudson also encouraged men to
attend the workshops.
“It will help them to understand
and work better with women,” Hud
son said.
Pam Wilkerson, president of the
Aggie Women’s Association, said
Women’s Week will educate women
on campus about job markets by
talking with former students now in
the business world.
Also during Women’s Week Lynn
Noble, owner of Noble Toyota in
Conroe, will discuss success 7:30
,p.m. today in 301 Rudder.
On Wednesday, Sara Alpern, an
A&M assistant history professor, will
discuss American women from a his
torical perspective at 6 p.m. The
speech will be preceded by a recep
tion at 5 p.m. and a performance by
the Women’s Chorus at 5:15 p.m. in
Rudder Exhibit Hall.
Women’s Week concludes with a
style show in the Memorial Student
Center lounge Friday at noon. The
show features dress-for-success fash
ions provided by Charli in College
Station.
Insurance
Cities hit hard by rise in municipal premiums
Associated Press
SAN ANGELO — Insurance
companies, hit by record underwrit
ing losses in 1984, have increased
rates to Texas cities by as much as
800 percent in recent months and
canceled their contracts altogether
on some occasions, insurance ex
perts say.
In other states, cities are having
even more problems than those in
Texas, the San Angelo Standard-
Times reported.
Last year’s losses, coupled with de
clining profits in the municipal risk
business, have prompted insurance
Icompanies to increase rates and in
[some cases cancel their contracts
|with cities.
CIGNA insurance company “non-
jrenewed” its coverage with Grand
Prairie in October. St. Paul pulled
out from Port Arthur and the city’s
premiums doubled in one year. Ir-
Jving’s premiums tripled.
Texas cities are scrambling to
meet the costs but cities in other
states are panicking, said Texas Mu
nicipal League Director Bill Martin.
Because municipal risk is tradi
tionally considered bad business,
some companies, like Aetna, are
withdrawing completely. Others,
such as St. Paul, will bid on i
property,
but not liability insurance, the news
paper reported.
Texas has not felt the impact as
much as other states because the in
surance industry considers it to have
a more stable local government mar
ket, Martin said.
City officials and insurance con
sultants said they saw the first indica
tion in mid-1984, but were not con
cerned because no one expected a
drastic change, said Robert Lazarus
of Robert W. Lazarus & Associates
Inc., a risk management and insur
ance counseling service in Plano.
“During the last quarter of 1984,
things just went haywire, in public
and private coverage,” Lazarus said.
“In December, when we saw the pro
posals, it was just unbelievable what
they were coming in with. Everyone
was shocked.”
In a few extreme cases, cities have
had 500 percent to 800 percent in
creases. The trend is for 50 to 150
percent increases,said Lazarus.
“You find a shortage of compa
nies that insure and for those who
will, they charge a high price,” Mar
tin said.
Part of the turbulence in the in
surance industry is attributed to an
international financial situation.
Insurance companies cede part of
their risk to the reinsurance market,
which in turn invests in the interna
tional market where money is fun-
neled into such investments as Arab
oil and Japanese trade.
In 1983 and 1984, the property
and casualty insurance business lost
$33.3 billion, more than the total un
derwriting deficit for the previous
25 years, Martin said.
The 1984 losses were not offset by
the $17.3 billion in investment in
come.
A series of man-made and natural
catastrophes contributed to the
losses. A hurricane that hit the
Texas coast in 1983 caused $1.6 bil
lion in losses in Houston and Galves
ton.
A series of man-made and natural
catastrophes contributed to the
losses. A hurricane that hit the
Texas coast in 1983 caused $1.6 bil
lion in losses in Houston and Galves
ton.
“In an economic sense, the indus
try is bleeding profusely,” Martin
said.
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