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The pharma-water syndrome: a product liability disaster: the unintended consequences of the massive production and use of hormone-based drugs and other pharmaceuticals.		Apr 1, 2012	1615
A picture of captive health: two new Vermont captive owners talk about their journeys from concept to formation, revealing the foundations behind the domicile's continued success.		Apr 1, 2012	1559
RRG's still RSVP for their spot in Vermont: risk retention groups have always found a special place in the Vermont domicile, and continue to do so today no matter what challenges they face.		Apr 1, 2012	1596
Seeking shelter: in Vermont risk retention groups insure all forms of risk, from risks facing colleges and universities, to risks facing primary care doctors and specialists.		Apr 1, 2012	510
Top five spectator-related risks at professional ballparks: the death of a fan at Texas Stadium represents the worst case facing sports industry risk managers, but other exposures keep them busy.	Reprint	Sep 1, 2011	371
Up from the trenches: John Bender is poised to make Allied World Reinsurance a bigger player than ever and the growth is being built with discipline, dedication and good deeds.		Sep 1, 2011	1744
Surplus of marine capacity defies rational explanation: why do insurers continue to enter the marketplace and battle for business they can't earn profit from?		Sep 1, 2011	415
Beware of the spike: talk of a hard market is premature, even after $134 billion in insured catastrophe losses over the past 16 months. Welcome instead to the transitioning market where even property insurers might not be able to profit.	Cover story	Jul 1, 2011	2795
Dialing up success with telework: allowing flexible work arrangements for disabled workers offers employers plenty of benefits, including ways to update and improve their disability management and return-to-work programs.		Jul 1, 2011	1327
An urge to eat a modeler: modelers have too much power over insurers these days and feed off it with more costly software updates.		Jul 1, 2011	471
Surprised that all data is sacred: the important lesson from the Epsilon breach is that even customers' email addresses require extra special care and that insurance might not cover you when you fail to provide that.	Reprint	Jun 1, 2011	325
Insurers await true picture of Japan quake: accurate loss estimates in the wake of the Tohoku earthquake are anything but certain because boots simply cannot get on the ground.	Reprint	May 1, 2011	605
Toxic water: pollution and scarcity flow together: fracking, pharma, cow dung--whatever the pollution source, there's so little fresh water around, sullying it makes even less sense.		May 1, 2011	1571
Sea level risk: sinking in an ominous nexus of climate change, rising waters, poor infrastructure: when more volatile and violent weather meets the creaky infrastructure of the United States, those low-lying areas had better look out.		May 1, 2011	1554
Breaking away for the game winner: Carsten W. Scheffel, head of the Americas for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, is a tough competitor, a passionate boss, a loving father.	Cover story	Apr 1, 2011	2432
Early signals of two emerging brokering trends: Aon and Arthur J. Gallagher indicate how insurance brokerages are surviving in the never-ending soft market. Aon pauses to digest Hewitt. For Arthur J. Gallagher and acquisitions, it's full-steam ahead.	Reprint	Mar 1, 2011	472
Into the space rates race: the commercial space business is ready for liftoff, with operators racing from test flights to actual missions. Underwriters await the business, and scope the risks in the meantime.		Mar 1, 2011	1475
Give your captives a rest or toss 'em out; who needs a captive when there's no sign of any hardening in the near future?		Mar 1, 2011	433
The app revolution: mobile technologies are getting personal-lines carriers excited, but you'll be surprised to find smartphone apps and iPads in the commercial space as well.	Reprint	Feb 1, 2011	613
The power thought brokers: a few brokers have value beyond production or insurance placement. These are the thought leaders, the big brains, the encyclopedias of industry or product line knowledge that other brokers turn to in a pinch.		Feb 1, 2011	1598
The producer of brokers and brokerages: Patrick G. Ryan controls a new wholesale insurance brokerage and steers it through early challenges toward success. Is there any doubt he'll make an impact again, filled with passion for his favorite pursuit?		Feb 1, 2011	2289
Debunking the information technology disempowerment myth: a new report on fraud reinforces the message of information technology security experts: you can protect your enterprise against enemies and fraudsters.	Reprint	Dec 1, 2010	503
Hollywood's insurance stars: after crafting coverage against Icelandic volcanoes, the uber-popularity of some movie stars and anything else that can get in the way of a production, the brokers at Gallagher Entertainment sure have some stories to tell.		Dec 1, 2010	1675
Aon Hewitt: time to disclose brokerage fees? With the merger of Aon and Hewitt, clients that use the combined firm for both compensation consulting and insurance brokerage might need to start revealing how much they pay for it.	Reprint	Nov 1, 2010	713
Brokers defend value: intermediaries deserve compensation for services to insurers, not just to risk managers.	Reprint	Nov 1, 2010	345
Hitting loss prevention out of the park: the plant manager and crew of Rawlings' only wooden baseball bat factory face a property loss prevention test from the engineers of Allianz.		Nov 1, 2010	2291
Prayers answered after quake in Christchurch: global reinsurers could be on the hook for losses, but will they be large enough to shake up rates?	Reprint	Oct 15, 2010	402
Katrina left physical mark, not business continuity: the hurricane failed to impress upon organizations the need to prepare for business interruption.	Reprint	Oct 1, 2010	466
Will the best program please stand up: how well do the college rankings reflect the quality of insurance and risk management undergraduate education?	Reprint	Oct 1, 2010	406
Building ERM from the ground up: what makes this initiative innovative is the risk management working committee was made up of employees at the functional level.		Sep 15, 2010	663
Price-protection insurance: in 2007, Pricelock Inc. launched a way for new car buyers to lock in fuel prices. Now CEO Robert Fell has turned to the insurance world.		Sep 15, 2010	760
A time to tremble: the property/casualty insurance industry says it's prepared for a Chilean-sized earthquake in the United States. But one wonders when you look at performance in February's event in Chile.	Cover story	Sep 1, 2010	2419
Property's a pleasure: property insurance underwriters await the big event, or events, that will turn the market. In the meantime, risk managers are getting what they need, and even what they want, at renewal in 2010.	Conference news	Jul 1, 2010	1925
Claims: time for a revolution: the claims process is well-suited for lawyers, accountants and brokers but not for the people who matter most.		Jun 1, 2010	462
Risk manager: a future secure (with a little self-promotion): should your CEO start talking risk managementese, be sure to volunteer your services.		May 1, 2010	447
The front man: Dan Towle, director of financial services for the state of Vermont, has been a mainstay of the Vermont captive insurance industry for the last dozen years, representing the No. 1 U.S. domicile around the world.	Cover story	May 1, 2010	2352
How to manage being no. 1: the Vermont captive insurance industry is as booming as ever. Here's why, according to some of the top captive managers in the domicile.		May 1, 2010	1982
ERM: risk management's breakthrough: ERM has become a global phenomenon. Get onboard or be relegated to the lot of mediocre companies.		Apr 1, 2010	417
Have the capital markets come to you: corporate catastrophe bonds are a rare breed, especially in this soft insurance market. But with the cost of bonds coming down and new technologies available, the capital markets could be more appealing than ever to risk managers.		Mar 1, 2010	1461
Off the benefits cliff: one large self-insured employer's story about providing healthcare benefits amidst the recession can illuminate what many employers are going through.		Nov 1, 2009	1877
A more durable greening: green building, sustainability, carbon footprints and loss prevention all have more in common than you think.		Oct 15, 2009	1454
CAT modeling: as important as it is omnipresent: a tool that saves lives and delivers better pricing.		Oct 15, 2009	620
Bring 'em on? The Obama administration will make the world safer. The stand-alone terrorism insurance market is open for business. The terror risk is thus solved for corporate risk managers, right?		Oct 1, 2009	1347
Having a 'steak' in safety: Patrick Sterling, a relative newcomer to risk management, has the right combo of patience and persistence to make big changes now.		Sep 15, 2009	651
Giving the underwriters all they can handle: Jim Iervolino is pushing the IT envelope with a reporting system worthy of an underwriter.		Sep 15, 2009	619
Protecting the McFamily: Robert Johnson delivers "visionary" leadership for McDonald's workers' comp program.		Sep 15, 2009	533
The monarch of theater safety: Lisa Byrnes has driven a risk management culture from the corner office down to the carpet you walk on at Regal Entertainment.	Company overview	Sep 15, 2009	643
Murphy's the law: Robert Murphy is not just a broker. He's the leader in the professional sports and arena world.		Sep 15, 2009	654
Wet 'n wild insurance: specialized insurance contracts can help organizations protect revenue should water scarcity put a damper on operations, yet some businesses still seem to prefer praying to the Rain Gods.		Sep 1, 2009	1530
At war with ourselves: now that we're in the heat of the hurricane season, we could all use a lesson in catastrophe risk management. A new book from two Wharton risk doctors provides good beach reading (if you don't own coastal property).		Sep 1, 2009	1446
Better than banking.		Jul 1, 2009	281
Risk executive bonuses: pay for performers now: most risk managers are average, only a few are superior. If you have one of these gems, then, you better pay up.		Jul 1, 2009	620
Employer-based benefits: the jalopy you can count on: the employer-based benefits system should be the bedrock upon which any healthcare reforms are made.		Jun 1, 2009	671
Bonding with a reliable market: could the catastrophe bond market be on the verge of something big, now that it survived the financial crisis and the property-catastrophe reinsurance market is tight?		May 1, 2009	1349
Engineering an end to classic risk analysis: seeking the consultation of structural engineers is in vogue for corporate risk managers who want to assess catastrophe exposure at key properties.		May 1, 2009	955
What's next? Experts in their respective insurance specialties shed light on how buyers can best navigate today's new world of risk. Consider this a survival guide.	Cover story	Apr 15, 2009	10661
Yikes! An eyewitness Hurricane Ike account of how an adjuster and his clients navigated their way through the early days of a large commercial loss.	Cover story	Mar 1, 2009	2654
Employers eye innovations to cheaper, better healthcare: self-insured employers have new options on the table to cut healthcare charges: actually paying true cost and global benefits programs.		Dec 1, 2008	516
Get a hold of your property, people: many risk managers take the easy way out when it comes managing their property exposure. They let their brokers run CAT models, then buy insurance accordingly. Here's what property pros say should be done instead.		Dec 1, 2008	1510
Ike economic losses could reach $40 billion: Hurricane Ike, coming in as the fourth most expensive hurricane in history, keeps thousands of adjusters busy.		Nov 1, 2008	804
Safety on the set: some production companies in Hollywood appear to finally be getting the message about safety on the set. Yet far too many unnecessary injuries, some of them catastrophic, occur when producers run up against time, money and power.		Nov 1, 2008	2000
How businesses got it right with Ike: Hurricane Ike provided corporations in the Houston area with their first real business continuity test.		Oct 15, 2008	1448
Soft in the middle, hard around the corner: broker executives see no end in sight to the current soft market--until something sends the industry over the edge into a hard market, that is.		Oct 15, 2008	641
Scoping claims contentions: oh, where did those golden days of property claims go when risk managers, adjusters and insurers held hands, sung the Coca-Cola song and strolled through a settlement to the satisfaction and betterment of all?		Oct 1, 2008	1966
When to wield weapons of mass destruction: terrorists might not be any closer to acquiring CBRN weapons, but they sure would like to be.		Sep 15, 2008	412
Viva local brokers: gaming Power Broker big on chances of small brokers and agents.		Sep 15, 2008	1011
The perfectionist: risk manager at smaller company employs technology even the bigger boys might not have.		Sep 15, 2008	746
Sealing the big deals: adjectives like "elite" and italicized emphasis still suit one of risk management's top personalities.		Sep 15, 2008	843
Crafting shoes to fill: risk manager shows company how it's done with a focus on safety, loss control and responsible risk transfer.		Sep 15, 2008	763
Building the towers of power: hotel risk manager wields rare property placement to lead company toward future.		Sep 15, 2008	724
Feeding on risk creativity and dedication: the secret sauce for success: tying risk management into the corporate philosophy.		Sep 15, 2008	906
Risk manager retention: some companies like to hold onto their risk, finding creative in-house ways to fund and mitigate their exposures. Many risk managers like to hold onto their companies, expanding their career and their position with creativity and dedication.		Sep 15, 2008	1324
Ratings houses: where the less than qualified reign: oft-heard complaints about ratings agencies are more than just the grumblings of regressive insurance companies.		Sep 1, 2008	683
Retail blindness: retailers are lagging other sectors in their weather risk vision.		Aug 1, 2008	553
Pinning down principles: this year, CICA unveiled first-ever captive best practices after consulting regulators, owners, operators and experts. More of a process than a document, CICA has opted for more informal guidelines rather than the codifications offered by formal standards such as ISO 9000.		Aug 1, 2008	1373
Liability improving for long-term care: nursing home claims costs are stable.		Jul 1, 2008	454
Flying on autonomous pilot: New York City does not insure for most risks, and its risk management model would hardly pass muster in a rigorous enterprise risk management review. But it works, so what's it to you?	Cover story	Jul 1, 2008	3333
The green question mark: green building is taking off in the construction, design and real estate development worlds, and for good reasons. But with green reward comes unique green risk.		Jul 1, 2008	1850
Weathering the commodities crisis: agriculture dominates the world's headlines, with news of rising prices and extreme weather sowing concern among farmers, governments and consumers almost daily. New weather risk management tools provide a ray of sunshine.		Jun 1, 2008	1466
Regulator-go-round.		Apr 15, 2008	271
An inside job: the Vermont Captive Insurance Division made big news with its promotion of David Provost, Here's the inside scoop on why he was picked.		Apr 15, 2008	391
The taste of risk: the restaurant industry is expanding globally, and risk managers are front and center in the process of determining the new exposures on this expanded frontier of their brand empires.		Apr 15, 2008	2149
A model of innovation: the future in catastrophe modeling could be open-source software that's powerful, flexible but perhaps impractical.		Apr 1, 2008	390
Dishin' dirt on the property data: garbage in, garbage out, as they say about CAT models. And what they also say now is that the smell is coming from you, risk managers. Is this fair, or is everyone shoveling the garbage?		Apr 1, 2008	1652
The take on quakes: reinsurers aren't entirely sold on the idea of midterm or short-term earthquake forecasting.		Mar 1, 2008	512
Family renewals: the brokerage business is fertile soil for growing family trees--if anything because all producers are measured equally no matter what last name they bear.		Feb 1, 2008	1470
No running mates in 2008.		Jan 1, 2008	258
The alternative markets are upon us: Csiszar: Chicago's alternative finance empire will rule insurance.		Jan 1, 2008	358
Can captives unite against the man? An IRS tax proposal threatens to quash onshore domiciles. The industry tries to overcome differences and fight it.		Jan 1, 2008	1615
Hospital liability's healing: analysis' hospitals have lowest liability claims of last eight years, loss reserves not so lost.		Dec 1, 2007	390
Business interrupted: the tale of the 2007 fires: the wildfires that raged in Southern California in late October were more of a residential event, but businesses and their insurers could still be facing significant claims activity and even dispute.	Cover story	Dec 1, 2007	2678
Hurricane forecasts a useful tool: forecasters, even if they get it right only half the time, provide a valuable service. They remind all of us ADHD sufferers about Mother Nature's beach tax.		Dec 1, 2007	645
Wikiphilia: risk-conscious pros get wired into Web 2.0.		Nov 1, 2007	346
Performing under pay pressure: with the compensation issue ever-simmering, brokers and risk managers discuss performance-based pay.		Nov 1, 2007	589
Diverse and perfect: Kudos for Aon's treatment of GLBT community.		Nov 1, 2007	237
Reinforcing quake lessons: earthquake expert reports on aftermath of Japan temblor.		Oct 1, 2007	365
Next big Katrina decision: the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules on New Orleans flooding.		Oct 1, 2007	399
Fighting for your healthcare funds: third-party administrators and other members of the self-insured benefits industry claim they are in a war for their very existence. Their enemy--the dreaded BUCAS and the government. Their hope of survival--your self-funded healthcare benefits dollars. Are they worth it?		Oct 1, 2007	2118
Moving companies: captives not chained to their domiciles in competitive industry.		Sep 15, 2007	430
Quadruplets: Risk & Insurance[R] wins four awards in the annual ASBPE competition.		Sep 15, 2007	311