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Title	Type	Date	Words
Recruitment is the real issue.		Sep 15, 2008	566
Contingency redux.		Sep 1, 2008	578
'Plus ca change' all over again?		Jan 1, 2007	588
Selling without borders: retailers of all shapes and sizes must now get their U.S.-based risk management thought processes around their new international reality. Otherwise they open their balance sheets to catastrophe.		Aug 1, 2006	3057
Stop the press!		Jul 1, 2006	590
Buffett less than 'oracular'.		Apr 15, 2006	575
Greener pastures: how Pamela Davis transformed her graduate thesis into a viable business model to protect nonprofits from liability.	Cover story	Apr 15, 2006	1231
Many healthy returns: competition among medical malpractice carriers in the standard market is heating up. But using a captive remains a favorite way to hedge against volatility for which malpractice risk is notorious.		Apr 15, 2006	1299
Shoring up the portfolio: Triple X rules drive Transamerica Reinsurance to add an onshore captive to its portfolio.		Apr 15, 2006	1052
Time to re-act: since Three Mile Island, nuclear power in the United States has imploded into a Dark Ages of development. Recent legislation and strong support from the Bush administration, however, have energized the industry, along with its insurers.		Sep 1, 2005	1641
Cheshire cat: meet Dan J. Labrie. He runs a company in Cheshire, Conn., that insures public housing authorities. The Housing Authority Insurance Group is domiciled in Vermont and provides liability insurance for housing authorities in 43 states. Labrie continues to be a leader in the captive community.		Apr 15, 2005	1390
Should I stay, and should I grow? Two companies from opposite ends of the country began their hunt for a magic potion to help slow premium increases. In one instance, a corporate giant decides to expand its captive experiment. In another, management decides to retrench.		Apr 15, 2005	1306
Meet the flockers: executives at three companies say the liberal regulatory laws are among the most important reasons for trekking to Vermont to set up a captive insurance operation.		Apr 15, 2005	1298
The race for the middle market: captive insurance options for middle market firms and small businesses have exploded as the scandals plaguing the regular commercial insurance industry renew interest in setting up shop onshore where regulators are less likely to raise a stink, according to captive industry officials.		Apr 15, 2005	1245
PCI: mum's the word on Spitzer: "oh breathe not his name ... "wrote an Irish poet, and that spirit descended mightily on the first annual meeting of the newly-formed Property Insurers Association of America in November.		Feb 1, 2005	359
Fighting a war of independence: small brokers, who operate in partnership with independent brokers of similar size to compete for large and midsize commercial accounts, lay claim to significant advances in recent years. The big brokers, however, reassert their advantage of size and scale. This match looks as if it's headed far beyond the 12th round.		Nov 1, 2004	1770
Brokers without borders: Assurex Global, a network of commercial insurance brokers, celebrates its Jubilee by insisting on an international perspective and a holistic view of the marketplace.		Nov 1, 2004	1170
Riddled in mystery: the development of insurance products is sometimes shrouded in mystery. Other products and services develop incrementally, without a whiff of a "Skunkworks" mentality. Perhaps most surprising, though, is the role regulators play in spurring firms to develop new products. Some of the most successful products took off in the wake of federal and state laws.		Sep 1, 2004	2503
Stirring the alphabet soup.		Aug 1, 2004	1345
Choppy waters: John Keogh, president and CEO of National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., the nation's leading writer of directors' and officers' liability insurance, calls the D&O market "unpredictable." He sat recently for an interview with Risk & Insurance. Our questions and his answers follow.		May 1, 2004	1597
Green mountain giant: Leonard D. Crouse, Vermont's top captive finance regulator, holds the keys to the "Captive Kingdom." Crouse has been steering the exceptional growth of the state's captive insurance industry since 1990.		Apr 15, 2004	1204
Staples' captive: 'yeah, we've got that'. For the giant retailer, setting up a captive was an open-and-stapled-shut case. Now Staples is set to benefit.		Apr 15, 2004	1309
Employee benefits: will the bust turn to boom? Michael Lusk, the Archer Daniels Midland vice president responsible for the company's pioneering employee benefit captive domiciled in Vermont, explains how it came about and what ADH plans for the future.		Apr 15, 2004	1556
Through the lens sharply: insurance, reinsurance and brokerage community professionals highlight the differences in how they approach risk.		Apr 1, 2004	4361
Analysts: the best of times for P&C.		Mar 1, 2004	771
Views mixed on aviation capacity: whether rates hold at present levels, says Pete Fahrenthold, Continental Airline's risk management chief, depends on additional capacity coming into the market.		Dec 1, 2003	1569
Taking heat: brokers need to spend less time trying to please the marketplace and more time staying close to the needs of their clients and risk managers.		Nov 1, 2003	1842
M&A's mixed messages: a thinning of the "broker herd" will demand that risk managers ask some "hard questions," before buying or renewing their property-casualty policies.		Oct 15, 2003	1317
A hard living: brokers, beholden to "a fragile market," are finding it more difficult to earn their keep than they did several years ago.		Oct 15, 2003	1537
Top three domestic U.S. captives hold on to their spots in first half of 2003; Vermont is on track to shatter last year's record; South Carolina sees important gains.		Aug 1, 2003	1202
Hard market of soft, captives keep streaming into Vermont: deregulation, flight to quality, demand for complex risk financing make Vermont more attractive. (Special Supplement: Vermont Captives).		Apr 14, 2003	1270
Vermont captives fill serious voids in today's markeplace: Vermont had its most successful year in 2002. (Special Supplement: Vermont Captives).		Apr 14, 2003	1213
Captives in Vermont: two decades of success; a felsty new englander paves the way for the green mountain state's rise to prominence. (Special Supplement: Vermont Captives).		Apr 14, 2003	1414
Forming a captive: where to begin? (Special Supplement: Vermont Captives).		Apr 14, 2003	2115