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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
Tracking bonds' record: a new bond index from Swiss Re provides needed transparency to CAT bond market, perhaps more.		Sep 1, 2007	319
Free agent brokering: some NFL players have more protection than just pads.		Aug 1, 2007	328
Capital is coming--for better or for worse: capital markets dig insurance more than ever. The feeling isn't entirely mutual.		Aug 1, 2007	398
Finding fat in the middle: the middle market is calling again, and insurers are a comin'. Are they stumbling into another bloodbath, or are they in control of the battlefield this time?		Aug 1, 2007	2274
Weather's hot: trading numbers still up, along with interest and diversification.		Jul 1, 2007	391
Ice cream man to the rescue: risk and friends volunteer in NOLA, despite kill zone.		Jul 1, 2007	307
New parking spot for Bentley: Guy Carpenter exec signs on with modeler RMS.		Jul 1, 2007	390
A view on the rooms: the hotel business is changing by leaps and bounds, but risk managers' goals remain the same--protect their good name and get property cover.		Jul 1, 2007	2055
Industry risk report: hospitality/gaming.		Jul 1, 2007	1548
Climate change: a risk oversold: something is happening with our climate, but making the risk today's political poster child won't help matters.		Jul 1, 2007	596
Katrina appeals week: expect a big verdict out of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.		Jun 1, 2007	464
Look into the crystal market: hurricane market launches new contracts, could forecast future.		Jun 1, 2007	354
Industry risk report: utilities/energy.		Jun 1, 2007	1544
Workplace class actions cost more: report: workplace suits emerged in 2006 as top legal risk.		May 1, 2007	341
Producing fresh produce: new FDA guidelines for handling and processing fresh produce significant for the entire food chain.		May 1, 2007	301
Shredding apart high-value targets: a Northeast hurricane could drown New York City and parts of New England, and sink a few insurance and reinsurance carriers as well, with losses as high as $100 billion.		May 1, 2007	1118
122 Ninth Wards? A recent report on levees suggests 122 across the country are in disrepair. And flood risk was already overlooked enough.		May 1, 2007	1115
Odorless vapors: an insidious intruder: the foul smell of vapor intrusion is wafting through the environmental insurance world. Federal regulators say the problem affects 439,000 sites nationwide.		May 1, 2007	1177
You can always go brown-town: brownfields could play a role in the revitalization of New Orleans, and not for the reasons you think.		May 1, 2007	1592
Surviving the end of world: for insurers, one lesson of recent catastrophes is to respect the return periods. But should low-probability, high-severity disasters that might never happen really concern risk management? The true lesson could be to lay off the probabilities altogether.		May 1, 2007	1900
The futures of flu: an economist and an infectious disease doc launch futures market for flu.		Apr 15, 2007	437
A pool in paradise: a new regional CAT risk pool could prove an innovative way to prefund disaster.		Apr 15, 2007	282
A risk primer: the best bets in the Big Easy.		Apr 15, 2007	173
Industry risk report retail.		Apr 15, 2007	1358
Show who's boss.		Apr 1, 2007	345
Not vanishing into thin air: a modeling leader moving up in, not out of, the industry.		Apr 1, 2007	331
ERM for the DHS? Report suggests Homeland Security needs more risk management.		Apr 1, 2007	280
Finding faults: if insurers were disillusioned with catastrophe models after Hurricane Katrina, just wait until the earthquake hits. How and why earthquake models fall short.	Cover story	Apr 1, 2007	2906
Industry risk report: trucking.		Apr 1, 2007	662
Show me the postmortem money: Missouri Supreme Court overturns workers' comp axiom.		Mar 1, 2007	341
Another call for clarity; Illinois Supreme Court rules in favor of simplicity in policy wording.		Mar 1, 2007	299
Getting old people's business gracefully: for insurers, the long-term-care industry is a worthwhile risk again. Loss figures are down, so new capacity is rolling in. But some facilities believe they're better off living independently--risk management or not.		Mar 1, 2007	2006
Industry risk report: computer hardware.		Mar 1, 2007	1472
Lifting the veil on professional liability: two key benchmarking projects release much-anticipated results to build on in 2007.		Feb 1, 2007	433
Back to backdating: the stock-options practice is still on the minds of D&O buyers and sellers--and the SEC.		Feb 1, 2007	531
Paying paramedics properly: a case in Pennsylvania could better define municipalities' overtime pay liability for paramedics.		Feb 1, 2007	287
Industry risk report: manufacturing.		Jan 1, 2007	1457
Healing health care: whether fully insured or self-funded, employer-sponsored health care costs will continue to climb.		Dec 1, 2006	485
What went wrong? At the beginning of the 2006 hurricane season, forecasters predicted an "active" season. It turned out to be a dud. Risk managers weren't much surprised.	Cover story	Dec 1, 2006	2947