Articles from Risk & Insurance (November 1, 2007)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A confederacy Of techies: the sale of Policy Management Systems Corp. nearly a decade ago has given birth to a new generation of insurance software companies in and around Columbia, S.C.	Tuohy, Cyril		1433
Aon study registers CDH uptick: driven, directed, whatever you call them--CDHs are taking off.	Reynolds, Dan		518
Automakers 1, plaintiffs 0.	Kircher, Philip G.		572
Blissfully blinded by models.	Vance, Beaumont		639
Clapping continues for Lockton.			66
Comp in Iraq.			49
Data, privacy and the risk chain: how to secure information held by vendors ... and their vendors ... and their vendors ...	Peter, Pearlman		1436
Diverse and perfect: Kudos for Aon's treatment of GLBT community.	Brodsky, Matthew		237
Eight mistakes you ought to hate: when rates decline, remember to stay disciplined and resist falling prey to temptation.	Pennachio, Frank		1604
Europe raises the environmental stakes: countries take an inconsistent approach to a new EU directive.	Reynolds, Dan		304
Fall cleaning.	Slattery, Tom		610
File a claim, get deported?	Rousmaniere, Peter		617
Flushing out the frequent flyers: Houston Independent School District claims manager Tom Dolan knew it was time to act when one employee had 17 claims in five years. How he dispelled such "frequent flyers" is what gained the district a 2007 Teddy Award.	Gurevitz, Susan	Cover story	1572
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.	Reynolds, Dan		1663
Funds rife with conflicts of interest: from California to Rhode Island, state-sponsored workers' compensation insurers suffer from the brazen misdeeds of managerial appointees. Our columnist offers remedies that are basic, but routinely ignored.	Rousmaniere, Peter		2641
Get my drift: take your captive offshore: offshore domiciles have stood the test of time. They will be there for corporations long into the future, just as they have over the past 50 years.	Sulisz, Ron		606
Giving costs the boot: a federal workers' compensation case management team has slashed future long-term liability at a U.S. Army installation from around $60 million to $27 million.	Turley, Melissa	Cover story	1484
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.	Reynolds, Dan		493
HRH to acquire bank branch.			44
HUB to pick up Totten.			62
Injury intervention at work.			184
Integro.			62
Lloyd's delivers.			99
Lockton Brokers benevolence.			57
Lockton.			40
Marsh's storm clouds.	Roberts, Jack		307
Max Palmer managing director Marsh New York.			138
Networks, hierarchies sitting in tree.			48
Out of many, one: centralized management and a program that empowers employees is creating success.	Reynolds, Dan	Cover story	1586
Out of the ashes: another failure? That government failed the rescue, recover and cleanup workers of Sept. 11 is doubtless. Whether all levels of government can learn from their mistakes before the next catastrophe is the real "if.".	Rousmaniere, Peter		3533
Performing under pay pressure: with the compensation issue ever-simmering, brokers and risk managers discuss performance-based pay.	Brodsky, Matthew		589
Rate increases dip.			55
Regulator appointed.			53
Remember to restock, or else.	Crombie, Roger		630
Ringing endorsement for integration.			45
Rockhill picks up RTW.			73
Section 404's divergent impacts: survey finds individual risk management departments divorced from requirements of section 404.	Tuohy, Cyril		484
Stay put: keep your domicile domestic: U.S. federal and state legislation since 1986 have done a lot more to make domestic captives attractive for insurers.	Hall, Ted		626
Stop dragging your feet.			50
Stopping the violence spiral.			63
The cost controllers: absorbing the impact of two big mergers, the resilience of AT&T's Teddy Award-winning workers' compensation and disability management programs is a tribute to the teamwork that spawned them.	Kerr, Michelle	Cover story	2135
The rise and fall of second injury funds: unintended consequences have led to unforeseen costs, and legislatures are striving to limit the payout of second injury funds.	Briscoe, Robert K.; Meyer, Robert J.		1636
The top 5.			44
The utilization side of the story: utilization management is an increasingly important component of controlling pharmaceutical costs. No wonder workers' compensation PBMs are multiplying like rabbits.	Bowling, Maddy; Huth, David		2117
Thinking hard on mental illness: the American Psychiatric Association unveiled new psychiatric tools for return-to-work this past summer. Our resident workers' comp and behavioral health guru has let them sink in and is ready to provide his two cents.	Rousmaniere, Peter		1441
TJX settles.			66
Trickledown wrap-up tricks: midsized construction projects may benefit from an insurance approach long used at the largest sites. A careful analysis will show if this approach makes sense for specific projects.	Probolus, Jack		2168
U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc.			55
Vitale switches camps.			65
Wikiphilia: risk-conscious pros get wired into Web 2.0.	Brodsky, Matthew		346
Willis as Isaac Newton.			66
Willis Group Holdings Ltd.			61
Workers' compensation & directory.		Directory	7076