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Risk accused: honored public risk manager faces accusations.		Dec 1, 2009	458
The paper hangers: risk managers like to think their attorney is their best friend in an insurance recovery case, but conflicts of interest abound as large firms in particular can find themselves representing both the interests of plaintiffs and defendants.		Dec 1, 2009	1968
Capacity melts by as much as 66 percent in the face of wildfires: California's 2007 wildfire losses have sent utilities scrambling to pay for vastly more expensive liability cover but taxpayers object to rate hikes to cover the increases.		Nov 1, 2009	1055
Right in the teeth: Aon Benfield tracks the impact of the global financial storms.		Oct 15, 2009	1112
Catching up with supply: thanks to coverage cutbacks and increasing retentions on the part of insureds, there looks to be plenty of capacity in both offshore and onshore energy markets as we head into 2010.		Oct 15, 2009	2021
State fund or slush fund? California's governor and legislature reach out for a $1 billion piece of the state fund.		Oct 1, 2009	1320
Biding their time: excess carriers are playing a waiting game, watching the seas for admitted carriers to pull back from coming pain.		Oct 1, 2009	1480
The fat fighters: wellness and weight-loss programs can work, but kicking the calorie habit may be tougher than cigarettes.		Oct 1, 2009	1681
The two sides to web detection: monitoring online postings for signs of troubled students or faculty makes sense, but case law is unclear about where duty ends and liability begins.		Sep 15, 2009	919
Narrowing the spectrum: PRIZM product allows middle-market clients to pass on seeking coverage from multiple carriers for different lines.		Sep 15, 2009	699
A greening day: ACE's Bill Hazelton gives his team enough green space with which to innovate.		Sep 15, 2009	612
Hitting a home run in a great American pastime: building relationships: risk manager doubles builder's risk coverage limit at a 35 percent discount.		Sep 15, 2009	741
Raising the cross: a Nebraska insurance restoration company goes to great lengths to restore a rural landmark.		Sep 15, 2009	665
Exploring the issues of tissues: broker Mark Ware reminds us all that sometimes doing the basics, but doing them very well, is plenty innovative.		Sep 15, 2009	615
Scale: a boon to innovation: the larger the scale, the more latitude and the greater the chance for innovation.		Sep 15, 2009	674
Blues 'Brothers' in the Crosshairs: Pa, regulators look into possible anti-competitive practices among Blue Cross health carriers engaged in legal slugfest.		Sep 1, 2009	851
The new load factors: thieves are better at targeting specific freight loads and pressure to close public rest stops may just play in their favor.		Sep 1, 2009	2255
Hiscox doubles down: the Bermuda-based specialty insurer is placing a sizable bet on the U.S. middle market.		Sep 1, 2009	1636
Waiting in the shadows: companies with good risks can nail down their current D&O price and capacity with a backup carrier in a year-long option if they fear their primary carrier has shaky credit.		Aug 1, 2009	1326
Hitting the bull's eye: the program administration business is thriving and, yes, very competitive for administrators and carriers.		Aug 1, 2009	1587
Triggering concerns: two years after the Virginia Tech rampage, legislatures are warming to the idea of allowing concealed weapons on campus. Risk managers are leery about just how safe such laws would make their schools.		Aug 1, 2009	2266
Office of National Insurance: just window dressing: a federal insurance office is just the latest Wall Street Pennsylvania Avenue dance.		Aug 1, 2009	667
Binge drinking measures: the University of Kansas acts swiftly after two deaths.		Jul 1, 2009	553
Domestic terror map shifting: Aon's 2009 Terrorism Threat Map also shows a more settled outlook for North America, Europe and Australia.		Jul 1, 2009	439
Drug costs keep on rising: yet more data has been released on the use of prescription medications in the workers' compensation field and the results are not encouraging.		Jun 1, 2009	542
The risky old USA: a RIMS panel, men of international experience, teach us the dangers of this country.		Jun 1, 2009	480
Comparing the pay and performance of broker leaders: the contents of recent proxy statements for the four largest insurance brokerage conglomerates provide a window on the relationship between brokerage company performance, at least from a revenue standpoint and the compensation of the officers who run those firms.		Jun 1, 2009	701
Airlines to pay more: carriers to increase prices for hull and liability coverage this year, according to Aon report.		May 1, 2009	533
Stick to your knitting: banks used to do what they do well. There is no reason why they can't remember how to do that.		May 1, 2009	937
AIG Bonuses: circumstances justify breaching contracts: contracts were made to be broken, and insurance companies know this very well.		May 1, 2009	614
A new architecture: fast expanding risk demands a new science.		Apr 15, 2009	631
Rational ecology: a trade group talks sense.		Apr 15, 2009	533
Swiss re punished: the venerable Swiss reinsurer is the latest to suffer a ratings downgrade.		Apr 1, 2009	627
The end of the line: the government bailout of the Big Three could create even greater risks in numerous areas.	Cover story	Apr 1, 2009	2875
A communication breakdown.		Mar 1, 2009	268
Post-mortem: bank risk managers know where the risk is, but who will listen?		Mar 1, 2009	720
Shouldering the burden: the Los Angeles dodgers and the Ace American Insurance Co, square off over an injured pitcher.		Mar 1, 2009	731
Glory days: these are the good old days for Greg Belton, who became a brokerage entrepreneur at the age of 29.		Mar 1, 2009	845
Hawaii calls to East and West: the state continues to grow as a captive domicile and now ranks fifth globally in combined assets.		Mar 1, 2009	1318
Climbing the career tree: out of a computer software fiasco, LAUSD's Dave Holmquist branches out to become COO.		Jan 1, 2009	461
A warming 'climate' of disclosure? Insurance commissioners prepare a survey that will ask insurers to list their climate change risks.		Jan 1, 2009	452
Bundle of joy, bundle of risk: hospital risk managers warn of infant abduction risk and the importance of privately celebrating the birth of a child.		Dec 1, 2008	667
Pooled dreams: in Los Angeles, a pooling arrangement between the city and its quasi-public authorities could save taxpayers nearly $5 million a year. If only risk managers dared, or cared to dive in at once and agree to a common insurance-procurement program.	Cover story	Dec 1, 2008	3339
Industry risk report: transportation.		Dec 1, 2008	1353
Data breaches increase: not only are data breaches increasing, but the number of viruses being created every day is just exploding.		Nov 1, 2008	736
Waging a tough fight: staffing company Spherion Corp. takes rehabilitated workers injured on the job and places them on light duty. The incentive? Making sure they earn more than if they were on indemnity.		Nov 1, 2008	1900
Industry risk report: construction.		Nov 1, 2008	1508
AIG's troubles open up the market for certain buyers: with the exception of some specialty lines coverage and companies with the largest, most complex risks, buyers have plenty of options.		Oct 15, 2008	942
Disinherit the wind: Disney's Steve Wilder knew that the company's Walt Disney World in Orlando was a good hurricane risk. All he had to do was collect the massive amounts of data necessary to prove it.		Oct 15, 2008	2615
Sasquatch watch: a Georgia police officer gets axed for his role in a bigfoot scam.		Oct 1, 2008	413
Inside the nature of inspiration: Gisele Posey was introduced to co-workers more than three years ago as the woman who was going to save Kindred Healthcare $10 million. In three years she produced savings that tripled that expectation and is on the hunt for more.	Cover story	Oct 1, 2008	2218
Mending the fences: respected, long-term volunteers may resist, but background checks for almost all volunteers at nonprofit organizations are a must, according to experts.		Oct 1, 2008	1875
Mortgage lenders feel the wrath of a Federal Judge and Attorneys General: a District Court judge in Wisconsin grants class-action status to plaintiffs, and attorneys general file suit against Countrywide.		Sep 15, 2008	643
Sweat income.		Sep 15, 2008	368
Fair, fast settlements unsettle a hidebound bureaucracy: a pair of astute compensation managers move aggressively against problem claims and raise the bar for their peers.		Sep 15, 2008	767
Insisting on consistency: there are advantages to belonging in the middle of the pack: it forces the whizzes around you to keep things basic and simple.		Sep 15, 2008	652
Planting a mole in the office of your own TPA: risk manager finds a way to manage his TPA and carrier, not the other way around.		Sep 15, 2008	648
Inking an industrial advantage partnership: a risk manager applies the most overlooked of innovations: common sense.		Sep 15, 2008	863
Fighting the good fight: with increased competition among commercial carriers will come an increased emphasis on cost cutting and enterprise risk management.		Sep 1, 2008	454
Cedant scrutiny: reinsurers face more scrutiny from cedants as the market softens and as enterprise risk management elevates the importance of reinsurance as a tool to adjust capital allocation models required by regulators.		Sep 1, 2008	1678
Industry risk report: utilities and energy.		Sep 1, 2008	1347
Wall Street freeze out: class-action suits mount in the wake of a spring freeze on auction-rate securities.		Aug 1, 2008	611
Reinsurance: a risk transfer weapon of tomorrow: for primary carriers, reinsurance is a secure, efficient way to transfer risk that has no equal in financial services.		Aug 1, 2008	676
Listening to the sound of tumblin' dice: carriers and brokers see their profits pinched in the first quarter.		Jul 1, 2008	482
Agent charged in death of N.C. insurance investigator: Dilworth Agency founder Michael Arthur Howell held in connection with death of state sleuth.		Jul 1, 2008	367
Industry risk report: sports and leisure.		Jul 1, 2008	1540
A violation of trust: a California verdict drives home the cost of TPA mismanagement of a workers' compensation contract and perhaps reveals a more widespread problem.		Jun 1, 2008	1403
Industry risk report: shipping and marine.		Jun 1, 2008	1360
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap: disgruntled employees looking to take a "cheap" shot at a corporate or governmental enemy have plenty of opportunity.		May 1, 2008	631
Private equity risks emerge in sharper detail: more class-action lawsuits in the financial sector are expanding the risks to carriers in the business of underwriting directors' and officers' in the world of private equity. So far, insurers are still finding this market a worthwhile gamble.		May 1, 2008	1402
Okla. gun law: keep it: people carry guns with them every day for sound economic reasons.		May 1, 2008	779
Report: D&O financial services pricing up 18 percent in fourth quarter of 2007: mortgage market and subprime collapse blamed for price spike.		Apr 15, 2008	564
Enter The Matrix ... call it growth, call it cooperation, but the risk management community has formalized yet another process for growing up. Risk managers are about to find out just how good they are ... or if they're not good enough.		Apr 15, 2008	1417
Spitzer, client no. 9: good riddance: former N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer ceased to serve the industry or any other except the one that ended his career.		Apr 15, 2008	611
Global warming--to a $225 billion opportunity: carbon-trading markets offer a big new opportunity for the financial services sector but rising oceans could also mean billions of dollars in insured losses.		Apr 1, 2008	461
Steady-state, steady-flow: brokers and buyers may have differing perceptions of good customer service, but a lesson in physics proves why it might balance out.		Apr 1, 2008	555
A question of faith: after a decade of penance highlighted by million-dollar misconduct settlements, churches accept their responsibility and adopt more serious risk management programs but have yet to make believers out of the insurance markets.		Apr 1, 2008	1952
Industry risk report nonprofits.		Apr 1, 2008	1657
National Flood Insurance Program: drown it: by the very nature of its structure, the bankrupt and unwieldy program is unworkable.		Apr 1, 2008	658
Report: emergency preparedness lacking in many states: federal cuts to emergency preparedness funding could have dire health and financial effects, warns a nonprofit.		Mar 1, 2008	374
Earthquake vulnerability could cost Central Europe: policies expected to include coverage between now and 2012, according to A.M. Best & Co.		Mar 1, 2008	605
Assessing a market's softer strain: in a softening market, with premium growth slowing and new IRS regulations looming, the domestic captive industry takes stock of itself.		Mar 1, 2008	1691
Industry risk report insurance.		Mar 1, 2008	1598
Non-narcotic painkiller Lidoderm vaults to the top of WC Rx cost, surprising researchers: OxyContin falls to no. 5 as most expensive work comp drug.		Feb 1, 2008	338
Gallagher Bassett case grinds on: is the company being mean to school children, or being abused by a Catholic diocese?		Feb 1, 2008	556
Soured on service: though many buyers were happy with their individual brokers last year, others weren't shy about blurting out brokers' shortcomings.		Feb 1, 2008	2302
A test of discipline: excess and surplus lines carriers will have to walk an increasingly fine line in this softer insurance market. But how many of them will have the self-control to do it?		Feb 1, 2008	1607
U.S. stalls on patient safety: ASHRM committee chairman reports little progress on implementation of federal law.		Jan 1, 2008	576
The Western way: Rocky Armfield survives the halls of power in Los Angeles County with a cool demeanor and straight talk.	Cover story	Jan 1, 2008	1939
Industry risk report: aerospace.		Jan 1, 2008	1737
Wellness and disability: a needed savior: long live employee wellness programs, and the employees and corporations that benefit from them.		Jan 1, 2008	665
The Philippines forge ahead in risk management.		Dec 1, 2007	374
A wristband of a different color: uniform color-coded identification bands gaining a wristhold.		Dec 1, 2007	804
Burning through limits: the Southern California wildfires are expected to be double the damage of the 2003 wildfires and to melt through the state insurance pool's $8 million self-insured property limit. But experts say they expect very little effect on pricing.	Cover story	Dec 1, 2007	2251
Aon study registers CDH uptick: driven, directed, whatever you call them--CDHs are taking off.		Nov 1, 2007	518
Hospital performance mixed, survey finds: institutions score well on transparency, but still have a long way to go in implementing standards to help patients avoid hospital-acquired infections.		Nov 1, 2007	493
Europe raises the environmental stakes: countries take an inconsistent approach to a new EU directive.		Nov 1, 2007	304
Out of many, one: centralized management and a program that empowers employees is creating success.	Cover story	Nov 1, 2007	1586
Fox trots up to the plate: KBR's David Fox lists passion, creativity and a commitment to communities as key elements in his tool box.		Nov 1, 2007	1663
Don't blame the Nexters: report: look to baby boomers, not their children, for added stress on the workplace.		Oct 1, 2007	341