Articles from Risk & Insurance (September 15, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
2008 Risk Innovators: in a class of their own: what have innovators in risk management and insurance done for you lately? Plenty, as it turns out. They just do it quietly and with little fanfare. That makes them sometimes hard to spot, but the time has come to recognize their contributions.	Reynolds, Dan; Tuohy, Cyril	Cover story	3393
A fishy deal.	Rousmaniere, Peter		573
A man of action: running with the idea of self-insurance.	Gurevitz, Susan		672
A proselyte for a holistic view of risk: leaving the minutia of spreadsheet-clogged white papers where they belong: on the shelves.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		572
An eye for managing risk on the road: a small camera lets drivers see how they're doing, and results can be used in court to defend them.	Yahn, Steve		764
Arbitration revisited.	Kircher, Philip G.		520
Beyond Fred Flintstone: vulcan adapts a browser-based system for on-site claims reporting and cuts costs by 40 percent.	Fitzpatrick, Michael		590
Beyond Saffir-Simpson: trading hurricane futures on the CHI-Town Mercantile Exchange.	Yahn, Steve		897
Birth mother of CAT modeling spins on: props to Karen Clark for her work on the IPCC, and at her new firm.	Gazica, Erin		584
Bucking convention: a possible platform for an alternative energy underwriting strategy.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		519
Building the towers of power: hotel risk manager wields rare property placement to lead company toward future.	Brodsky, Matthew		724
Buying time.	Makomaski, Joanna		588
Champion for ERM: Society of Actuaries board member pioneers new credential in his spare time.	Gazica, Erin		610
Corrections.		Correction notice	97
Course corrections: driving disability rates of his company's drivers in one direction--downward.	Vowinkel, Patricia		695
Crafting shoes to fill: risk manager shows company how it's done with a focus on safety, loss control and responsible risk transfer.	Brodsky, Matthew		763
Creating best practices: Nicholas Tworischuk tackled the immense task of categorizing risk management best practices for the 57 colleges and universities in New Jersey.	Gurevitz, Susan		667
Culture change: weaving together strands of workers' comp claims management for New York City.	Gurevitz, Susan		555
Doing away with "named location" risk on environmental policies: executive pushes for holistic coverage of environmental risk at financial institutions with a little help from Aon and AIG.	Yahn, Steve		361
Dreading innovation.	Crombie, Roger		588
ERM makes inroads with carriers: compared with four years ago, the number of carriers with enterprise risk management programs has gone up, but the percentages belie the strength of the support.	Tuohy, Cyril		597
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.	Reynolds, Dan		767
Fashioning a forum: Mike Witka has created a place for Roman Catholic risk managers to share their concerns and methods.	Gurevitz, Susan		493
Fear this: making headway by tackling others' fears.	Fitzpatrick, Michael		443
Feeding on risk creativity and dedication: the secret sauce for success: tying risk management into the corporate philosophy.	Brodsky, Matthew		906
From B to A.			80
Giving care to hospitals: the innovative Caregiver Safety Accreditation cuts the costs incurred by a hospital consortium.	Vowinkel, Patricia		820
H.R. 5792: pass it now: legislation stabilizes pricing and increases commercial property insurance availability.	Ochenkowski, Janice		619
H.R. 5792: scrap that ASAP: expanding coverage areas for risk retention groups without corresponding regulation is a mistake.	Grover, Nancy		615
Health reform--that's the ticket: injecting some competition into the health insurance marketplace and simplifying transactions.	Vowinkel, Patricia		804
How did the terror risk models stack up? How well did the models do, seven years after Sept. 11, 2001? The modeled preferences--sabotage, conflagration, aircraft attacks, and the use of standoff weapons--have corresponded closely to those observed worldwide, with one or two exceptions: fewer big-yield bombs than expected, and fewer surface-to-air missile attacks on commercial aircraft.	Coburn, Andrew; Woo, Gordon	Report	1711
Implementing a just culture: SSM Health Cafe's approach helped promote patient safety by encouraging communication and allowing for the identification of risks and safety hazards.	Vowinkel, Patricia		526
In search of a more perfect union: coaxing, or coaching, the unions with a restructured disability program was the key to Southern Cal Edison's Return-to-Work Job Coach program.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		662
In the blood: a risk manager's fingerprint identity solution for an Indiana blood bank.	Vowinkwel, Patricia		617
Inking an industrial advantage partnership: a risk manager applies the most overlooked of innovations: common sense.	Reynolds, Dan		863
Innovation for risk managers.	Mandel, Chris		601
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.	Reynolds, Dan		652
Level on the level: one-stop shopping for an effective defense strategy in construction defect cases: beating the lawyers at their own game.	Fitzpatrick, Michael		576
Mainframe of mind: teasing workers' comp injury data out of SEPTA's mainframe helped managers curb accidents.	Yahn, Steve		644
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.	Reynolds, Dan		643
New columnist focuses on innovation.	Roberts, Jack		319
Now showing: fixed on filmmaking to get safety messages through to impressionable students.	Gurevitz, Susan		803
One platform for one and all: Internet-based platform links underwriting and the risk control field.	Gazica, Erin		730
Patience nets many virtues: Dana Berry used the patience learned as an English teacher to rope sales into the risk management matrix.	Fitzpatrick, Michael		537
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.	Reynolds, Dan		648
Pressing the business case for enterprise risk management: commodity price risk sparks software program for ERM in energy markets.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		487
Product protects foreign suppliers: ACE team takes on the hot topic of liability for U.S. companies with overseas suppliers.	Gazica, Erin		594
Pushing for reciprocal standards: safety veteran looks for ways to better assess contractors working in one of the most risk-prone cities in America.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		620
Put your money where.... How to get school leadership to invest scarce dollars in safety and prevention, and show a return-on-investment.	Gurevitz, Susan		591
Putting out home fires: employees want to work from home, but telecommuting increases a company's exposure to data theft.	Tuohy, Cyril		625
Ratings' enterprise five: Dreyer, Puccia, Easop, Mosher, Mohrenweiser--the five ratings analysts who can strike fear or spell relief in the heart of every risk manager.	Yovovich, B.G.		2173
Recruitment is the real issue.	Slattery, Thomas J.		566
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.	Brodsky, Matthew		1324
Rocking Little Rock: revamping "old school" thinking by cutting waste and finding interim work for injured workers.	Gurevitz, Susan		662
Running risk whitewaters: creating results in a Canadian YMCA program that counts the perils of rafting among its risks.	Gurevitz, Susan		489
Sealing the big deals: adjectives like "elite" and italicized emphasis still suit one of risk management's top personalities.	Brodsky, Matthew		843
Serving managers a hardier menu of tools: making programs accessible to managers via the intranet puts a dent in frequency claims.	Vowinkel, Patricia		626
Sprinkler researcher is on fire: FM Global engineer has been an integral part of the company's widely respected fire research.	Gazica, Erin		676
Story boarding success: comic strip bridges cultural gaps and helps workers understand the need for safety on the job.	Fitzpatrick, Michael		601
Sweat income.	Reynolds, Dan		368
Swiss Re's Tom Skwarek clocks industry with a new idea: just-in-time capital: up to $500-million in new, regulatory capital can be triggered in the event of a major catastrophe.	Yahn, Steve		933
Teaching the children: Dawn Watkins is saving money in Los Angeles for co-workers and to better educate kids.	Gurevitz, Susan		596
Terror risk: the next seven years: for now, the stalemate between the forces of radicalism and the coalition of moderate states assures a status quo, according to terrorism risk analysts. How long the equilibrium will last is anyone's guess.	Coburn, Andrew; Woo, Gordon		1868
Terrorism experts: increased risk for insurance industry.			170
The check on the wall: Dan Thomas indoctrinates risk management into the academic and social culture.	Gurevitz, Susan		1001
The gamer: an ex-Air Force pilot uses a game to mimic commercial real estate risks.	Fitzpatrick, Michael		631
The perfectionist: risk manager at smaller company employs technology even the bigger boys might not have.	Brodsky, Matthew		746
The seeker: long before it was popular, Dan Anderson was talking about risk and sustainability.	Gurevitz, Susan		631
The X-V files: a forensic look at B.I. value: finding the "pinch points" in supply chain risk.	Yahn, Steve		813
Upcoming events.		Calendar	441
Upending a model: anchoring a new model in the world disability claimants actually live in.	Vowinkel, Patricia		610
Visual clusters of risk: risk management professor and former Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. director builds an enterprise risk knowledge warehouse.	Yahn, Steve		765
Viva local brokers: gaming Power Broker big on chances of small brokers and agents.	Brodsky, Matthew		1011
When to wield weapons of mass destruction: terrorists might not be any closer to acquiring CBRN weapons, but they sure would like to be.	Brodsky, Matthew		412
Wind scale introduced.			91