Articles from Risk & Insurance (September 15, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Rish Engineering" and the Nanotechnology Exposure Protocol: no, that's not a misprint. Ashutosh Riswadkar of Zurich Services Corp, is paid to think small, very small.	Tuohy, Cyril		667
2009 Risk Innovator: triumph of the insiders: there is a thread that runs through the scores of individuals profiled in this year's Risk Innovator issue: innovators remain long-time corporate insiders who've honed their expertise over decades.	Tuohy, Cyril	Cover story	2171
A greening day: ACE's Bill Hazelton gives his team enough green space with which to innovate.	Reynolds, Dan		612
A one-man rescue squad: Norwood Promotional Products had almost given up on its employee benefit and safety programs ... until Robert Keller stepped into the picture.	Yahn, Steve		638
A special thank you.	Tuohy, Cyril		254
A Wall Street leader shows the way.			57
A weighty matter: making wellness convenient, relevant and very, very personal pays off for employees and employers alike.	Liedman, Julie		703
Age-based prejudice.	Loughman, Carmel	Letter to the editor	222
Altering the properties of coverage: with B.I. coverage triggered only with a property loss, institutions find a way to protect themselves even when no property is at stake.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		657
AON gets a grip: tracking carrier quotations for different lines in separate markets gives Aon a wealth of information and power in its grasp.	Roberts, Jack		979
Carbon at 'em: a group of utilities tries to identify the risks of carbon capture and sequestration and creates a new kind of liability package.	Gazica, Erin		701
CEO spiders.	Makomaski, Joanna		578
Championing a doctrine of pre-emption: banking head pushes for financing risk on a pre-event basis in developing countries to avoid more debt and higher taxes.	Vowinkel, Patricia		723
Changing the pace of innovation with technology: limitless opportunities exist for tech-savvy firms to create superior client service and true points of differentiation.			1319
Chubb's chief innovation officer.			47
Clairvoyant sees the value in web sites for nonprofit clients; an online resource for a group of entities with very special needs.	Liedman, Julie	Website overview	732
Cleaning up the port: risk manager for the Port of Oakland reels in an environmental deal worth bragging about.	Gazica, Erin		894
Clearing a pension hurdle: giving state pension funds access to capital markets at reasonable rates.	Vowinkel, Patricia		659
Correction.		Correction notice	27
Devoted to the common cause: Amerind CEO Kent Paul opens the property-casualty world to American-Indians. The question is not one of risk transfer so much as it is one of trust.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		903
Diggin' Posey: comp director had reduced costs and saved millions of dollars but she wanted to do more. So she dug and dug until she figured out how.	Liedman, Julie		658
Ethics over profits: a TPA consolidates fees into one per-claim fee, even at the risk of a slightly higher price to manage a claim.	Roberts, Jack		708
Exploring the issues of tissues: broker Mark Ware reminds us all that sometimes doing the basics, but doing them very well, is plenty innovative.	Reynolds, Dan		615
Fostering POETs in a poultry factory: solving a decades-old problem in the poultry industry that often disabled workers with a unique testing program.	Yahn, Steve		816
Getting smart about enterprisewide reporting systems: risk manager David Jewell's pet peeve' getting the proper amount of care to the right person.	Tuckey, Steve		709
Giving the underwriters all they can handle: Jim Iervolino is pushing the IT envelope with a reporting system worthy of an underwriter.	Brodsky, Matthew		619
Going gaga over Goggles: Bill Diaz sees clearly into the future of CS STARS.	Tuohy, Cyril		673
GRC: win or spin?	Mandel, Chris		562
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.	Brodsky, Matthew		651
Hitting a home run in a great American pastime: building relationships: risk manager doubles builder's risk coverage limit at a 35 percent discount.	Reynolds, Dan		741
Innovating from the heart: structured settlements take the place of lifetime benefits, as CNA's claims team lops tens of millions of dollars off long-tail catastrophic injury claims.	Roberts, Jack		559
Insuring the deductible: what's the catch? Coverage kicks in only if the damage exceeds the deductible dollar amount.	Roberts, Jack		762
Insuring the pension assets: burned by incidents in the past, John Martin found a way to prevent retirement misfortunes from happening to others.	Vowinkel, Patricia		899
Jesus, Judie and St. Joseph Health System: taking the guesswork out of what an injured employee can and cannot do makes returning to work safer for employees and less risky for employers.	Liedman, Julie		836
Kissing excess TPAS good-bye: Megan Marshall has a plan: speak softly, carry a big stick and send redundant third-party administrators packing.	Yahn, Steve		655
KLC'S risk manager delivers some TLC: telephonic medical triage assigns a nurse-case manager to every claim so patients can speak privately one-on-one with a nurse.	Tuckey, Steve	Interview	670
Microinsurance has big ups.			60
Mind on fire: fighting fires with mental firepower: FM Global's Archibald Tewarson plays with fire ... and (usually) wins.	Tuohy, Cyril		640
Murphy's the law: Robert Murphy is not just a broker. He's the leader in the professional sports and arena world.	Brodsky, Matthew		654
Narrowing the spectrum: PRIZM product allows middle-market clients to pass on seeking coverage from multiple carriers for different lines.	Reynolds, Dan		699
No more gaps: LoJack SCI's cargo tracking and recovery system is filling the holes in the supply chain.	Gazica, Erin		651
Now here's to you, Mr. Robinson: flexible Parcel Insurance goes where Declared Value coverage has never gone before.	Vowinkel, Patricia		744
Plugging the leaks: company president solves a messy problem for the heating oil industry.	Gazica, Erin		642
Protecting the McFamily: Robert Johnson delivers "visionary" leadership for McDonald's workers' comp program.	Brodsky, Matthew		533
Quote of the month.	Pastor, Sheri		26
Raising the cross: a Nebraska insurance restoration company goes to great lengths to restore a rural landmark.	Reynolds, Dan		665
Really, really smart cars.	Vowinkel, Patricia		579
Return to work, return-to-one system: temporary total disability payments plunge by about 10 percent after reforms to a supermarket chain's workers' compensation program.	Tuckey, Steve	Company overview	708
Risk manager for the people: laughter and creativity guide Volkswagen's risk manager, who knows how to bring risk management to those around him.	Yahn, Steve		727
Scale: a boon to innovation: the larger the scale, the more latitude and the greater the chance for innovation.	Reynolds, Dan		674
Scale: a drag on innovation: the law of large numbers blurs the vision, fogs the mind and clips the wings.	Tuohy, Cyril		693
Setting a simple goal, then running with it: a pair of Nike analysts centralize exposure data and give their sportswear company a leg up on comparing risk coverage from different carriers.	Tuckey, Steve		704
Shop but don't drop: Macy's and Bloomingdale's risk control officer consolidates retail giant's databases.	Tuckey, Steve		722
Sprinkling the wealth.			164
Taking control: Intl. Paper switches to an owner-controlled insurance program, with impressive results.	Yahn, Steve		439
Texas' Rx ranger: Herman Wilks tightens the lid on the pill bottle as the cost of medications increase.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		706
The anti-stereotype: grabbing the hottest trend in healthcare--medical tourism--and taking out the "what-if.".	Liedman, Julie		452
The increasing complexity of privacy.			64
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.	Brodsky, Matthew	Company overview	643
The monstrous tax quandary.	Crombie, Roger		653
The nature of leadership and innovation.			45
The Pacific activist: local mayor draws up emergency plans, listens to outside advice, but gets out of the way when disaster strikes.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		694
The quest for new paradigms: Systematic Care Management hastens recovery from catastrophic injuries and lowers workers' compensation costs as well.	Liedman, Julie		804
The standards-bearer: Matt Hansen burnishes San Francisco's risk management platform so that the city's public authorities look presentable to the debt markets.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		615
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.	Reynolds, Dan		919
The worship of safety, risk management and churches: with churches becoming new targets of violence, many have turned to a risk management program to mitigate the exposures.	Liedman, Julie		758
Tinker, tinker little (CS) STARS: a risk manager pushes his RMIS to extract enough data to keep track of students in need of help or serious disciplinary attention.	Morris, Gregory D.L.		660
Tweaking the cost-allocation models: Integro creates custom cost allocation models using behavioral factors such as slip and fall claims and indemnity actions.	Roberts, Jack		468
Two different states.	Rousmaniere, Peter		539
West Coast forgotten?	Bronson, Debbie	Letter to the editor	178
Why ask why? Because it saves lives: the managing general underwriter for nearly half the nation's YMCAs reviews data and finds new opportunities for safety and risk reduction.	Liedman, Julie		984
Working up to the green light: GreenRoad's monitoring system coaches bad drivers, from veteran taxicab owners to teens newly issued driving privileges.	Gazica, Erin		587