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Residual market exposures ease slightly in 2008: the real estate bust and depopulation temporarily alleviate the burden on high-risk pools, report finds.		Dec 1, 2009	440
In the hot seat.		Dec 1, 2009	275
Gaining in the captive Derby: the Bluegrass State racked up 36 new captives in 2008 and another 17 in the first 10 months of 2009. Why is Kentucky so popular a destination in the captive industry?		Dec 1, 2009	1447
Disability goes mainstream.		Nov 1, 2009	242
Open Mike: Mike Riney, president and CEO of REM Ltd., looks back on a 30-year career in the claims business.	Interview	Nov 1, 2009	2237
A stellar ratio.		Oct 15, 2009	292
Capturing the carbon market: commercial insurance carriers gear up to cover the risks of sequestering carbon, but for now stop short of offering the long, long long-tail coverage that such projects require.	Cover story	Oct 15, 2009	2071
Bracing for the chill wind of severity: comp and disability managers prepare for the premier annual workers' comp conference in the face of increases in claims severity.		Oct 15, 2009	1309
CAT modeling: a dismal science: why is it so difficult to achieve certainty with CAT models?		Oct 15, 2009	692
The naked and the dying.		Oct 1, 2009	234
Open mike: Mike Riney, president and CEO of REM Ltd., looks back on a 30-year career in the claims business.	Interview	Oct 1, 2009	2229
A special thank you.		Sep 15, 2009	254
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.	Cover story	Sep 15, 2009	2171
"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.		Sep 15, 2009	667
Going gaga over Goggles: Bill Diaz sees clearly into the future of CS STARS.		Sep 15, 2009	673
Mind on fire: fighting fires with mental firepower: FM Global's Archibald Tewarson plays with fire ... and (usually) wins.		Sep 15, 2009	640
Scale: a drag on innovation: the law of large numbers blurs the vision, fogs the mind and clips the wings.		Sep 15, 2009	693
The Potter chronicles.		Sep 1, 2009	267
Chicago Tower Tussels: Willis Tower vs. Aon Center vs. Carriers: Joe Plumeri's 'Big Willie' looks down at Greg Case's 'Big Stan,' as brokerage rivals compete for bragging rights.		Sep 1, 2009	1172
The rise of big Jim: Endurance Specialty Holdings appoints Merrick, N.Y., native James D'Onofrio to head the reinsurance operations of the company's America unit.	Interview	Sep 1, 2009	1591
London Falling.	Poem	Aug 1, 2009	217
Change that channel: selling to the Millennials is going to require rewriting the books on selling and casting aside previous assumptions.		Aug 1, 2009	578
The recasting Of purpose: with hull policies excluding terrorism, carriers have extended their kidnap-and-ransom policies to cover piracy risks on a per-transit basis.	Interview	Aug 1, 2009	2002
Office of National Insurance: money well-spent: it's about time the government appointed an office that had a clue about insurance.		Aug 1, 2009	588
Lucre for brokers in the small business marketplace: Willis HRH best positioned to take advantage of lucrative but elusive market by launching a "commission war," says equity analyst.		Jul 1, 2009	756
In love with 'tough stuff': XL Insurance's Chief Underwriting Officer John R. Glancy, sometimes seen as the 'Mr. Fix-It' man for insurance CEOs, prefers underwriting "tough stuff" and casualty risks where he and his team have to "put out big limits.".		Jul 1, 2009	2528
Risk executive bonuses: squelch that: when the economy is hurting, risk managers, like everyone else, can do their part in holding down costs.		Jul 1, 2009	660
Words of thanks.		Jun 1, 2009	270
Into the hearts and souls of E&O and D&O: agent Larry Goanos pens a who's who of the professional lines underwriting world and uncovers a cast of characters.		Jun 1, 2009	1918
The claims quarterback: the more work carriers and insureds do before inspecting damage on site, the greater the chances that the claim will be resolved.	Interview	Jun 1, 2009	1359
Tort tales: the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine will raise the costs for product liability litigation across a host of industries, according to legal experts, but insurance buyers aren't likely to feel its effects for now as there's still plenty of capacity in the market.		Jun 1, 2009	2478
Employer-based benefits: a kaput model: the recent economic downturn underscores the shortcomings of an employer-based benefits model.		Jun 1, 2009	691
Break dance.		May 1, 2009	277
Catastrophes cost insurers worldwide $52.7b in 2008: rising price trends for catastrophe coverage expected to affect other lines.		May 1, 2009	497
Rate climbs: for commercial trucking fleet risk managers looking to renew this year, many are likely to see the soft market turn into modest price increases.		May 1, 2009	1286
Sealing the envelope: catastrophe modeling companies now hire armies of actuaries, statisticians and software engineers to help clients predict the scale of potential losses.		May 1, 2009	737
Price hike for surplus lines: loss ratios to blame, expert says, as carriers look to boost revenue from the underwriting side of the ledger.	Interview	May 1, 2009	2278
AIG Bonuses: breaching contracts is dangerous: it would be foolish for AIG executives to return bonuses that were legally and fairly awarded to them.		May 1, 2009	604
OFC not an option yet: U.S. regulatory reform of insurance not likely in the near term, NAIC seen as taking a more active role in the regulatory process.		Apr 15, 2009	550
Brokers Revealed: commercial insurance brokers, a content lot, come with a dollop of spice and imagination.		Apr 15, 2009	745
What's next for Rx: experts in dispensing workers' comp medications through pharmacy benefits programs are watching the field of electronic prescriptions, or e-prescribing, as the future battleground for cost control.	Interview	Apr 15, 2009	1313
Scorcher of an agenda: hot topics at this year's RIMS convention are packed tightly around common themes: a soft economy, AIG, directors' and officers' liability, subprime mortgages and switching carriers.		Apr 15, 2009	1230
Staking out a premium position: a tax break, preparing for the hard market and the Obama administration's tougher stance toward offshore domiciles are expected to benefit Vermont.	Cover story	Apr 15, 2009	1950
Confessions of the Provost: after a year on the job, Vermont's top captive regulator feels a little like a minor celebrity.	Interview	Apr 15, 2009	707
Goin' bananas.		Apr 1, 2009	294
Switching carriers yields more savings: Greenwich survey highlights a trend.		Apr 1, 2009	371
ERM: the big push in a year of austerity: RIMS offers 16 sessions on ERM this year. Yet after a hard day's work in the convention hall learning about the latest in ERM implementation, will attendees be able to find a party to meet friends and let off a little steam?		Apr 1, 2009	659
RIMS 2009: risk management for insurance: for the first time, the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. finds itself at the nexus of having to talk about risk management for insurance.		Apr 1, 2009	1489
Reversals of fortune.		Feb 1, 2009	260
Storylines coined by these young producers: in the insurance brokerage business you're still young at age 40, and even they've got a story.		Feb 1, 2009	2086
Gunning the revenue needle: Beecher Carlson snaps up property brokers in the wake of last year's mergers, adding to its traditional casualty strengths.		Feb 1, 2009	2060
What's the ERM story?		Jan 1, 2009	274
'Hard' conjectures about this market: S&P: reinsurance pricing inflection point reached with January renewals.		Jan 1, 2009	480
Keeping core competencies close to home: popularity of sending some workers' comp claims processing functions offshore drops, survey finds.		Jan 1, 2009	615
Slicing and dicing: Marsh cuts into the small-business sector--for real this time.		Jan 1, 2009	794
AIG puts a Liddy on it.		Dec 1, 2008	253
Giant leaves the door open to IT-driven competitors: report finds multiline carriers with specialty lines coverage in the best position to take advantage of the new landscape. Tech spending mostly unaffected by the AIG-related market turmoil.		Dec 1, 2008	544
My lesson in unknown unknowns.		Nov 1, 2008	303
Casualty reinsurance experts warn of terms of entanglement: as risks stretch across an entire reinsurance portfolio, it's easier for one risk to affect another unrelated risk in another part of the portfolio.		Nov 1, 2008	530
For cedants a Rendez Vous with a happy ending reinsurance rates expected to continue their slide as capacity remains plentiful.		Oct 15, 2008	963
Talking the talk and walking the walk: European reinsurance executives hang tough and promise to turn their backs on unprofitable business.		Oct 15, 2008	1382
R.N.: risk nursing.		Oct 1, 2008	280
Aon-Benfield: buyers' or sellers' gain? With Aon now owning nearly one out of every two brokered reinsurance transactions, the question is what does that mean for buyers?		Oct 1, 2008	749
Putting out home fires: employees want to work from home, but telecommuting increases a company's exposure to data theft.		Sep 15, 2008	625
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.		Sep 15, 2008	597
Flooded with neglect.		Sep 1, 2008	255
Mortgage insurers' vintage hangover: mortgage insurers are going to have to boost loss reserves as carriers deny claims based on fraudulent behavior, a new report finds.		Sep 1, 2008	458
Ratings houses: necessary, fair and accurate: for every stumble, ratings agencies rack up hundreds of accurate and reliable calls that benefit risk managers.		Sep 1, 2008	678
Meeting the Provost.		Aug 1, 2008	276
Adjusting to the new model of risk-based exams: carriers are in for big changes in the way regulators review their internal controls as examiners shift from rules to risk.		Aug 1, 2008	574
Reinsurance: mired in the past and ripe for reform: a traditionalist's tool, reinsurance doesn't offer much new in a world exploding with ART mechanisms.		Aug 1, 2008	649
Finally, a female voice.		Jul 1, 2008	247
Ratcheting up the pressure, paying the price: U.S.-style lawsuits invade Europe and underwriters blame the litigation for increasing the price of coverage.		Jul 1, 2008	858
Exposing the triple-A game.		Jun 1, 2008	270
Report calls for rethinking strategies to solving risks in the megacat age: innovations would include a national database and pricing premiums to reflect the risk.	Report	Jun 1, 2008	518
Reinsurance prices in the first quarter continue to slide: prices fall by as much as 15 percent to 20 percent in some markets.		Jun 1, 2008	391
Risks not transferred.		May 1, 2008	286
ERM programs lacking in clarity: simplifying risk reporting a major challenge for chief risk officers, survey finds.		May 1, 2008	372
Okla. gun law is not OK: state laws usurp private corporations' responsibilities to provide a safe workplace.		May 1, 2008	705
India and China: huge but tough markets: two of the world's largest insurance markets are also two of the hardest to master.		Apr 15, 2008	283
Experts: traditional D&O policies ill-suited for big drug makers: underwriters looking to cover pharmaceutical. companies may want to pop a Tylenol or two as they wake up to the sobering fact that their policies just aren't adequate any longer to cover Big Pharma.		Apr 15, 2008	499
Coexisting by necessity: underwriters are here to stay, and so is automated underwriting which has made the lives of some more difficult, but the lives of many others a lot easier. Thus it has been for decades; and thus it is likely to remain.		Apr 15, 2008	1413
Spitzer, client no. 9: our monumental loss: in former N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer, insurance buyers lost the best friend they ever had.		Apr 15, 2008	639
Feeling insecure.		Apr 1, 2008	240
Former sec chairman warns of tougher job ahead for D&O underwriters: a 'shifting environment' will force underwriters to reassess risks and pricing of D&O insurance.		Apr 1, 2008	554
A hard' convention welcome: the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. can't wait to return to the warm confines of San Diego for its annual convention after a couple of soft years.		Apr 1, 2008	1299
E-signature slumber: time is running out for carriers and agency management vendors as a younger generation looks to sign on the electronic bottom line.	Interview	Apr 1, 2008	2195
National Flood Insurance Program: keep it afloat: providing flood insurance is a worthy role of government, deserving of reform and reauthorization by Congress.		Apr 1, 2008	677
The life for Brian.		Mar 1, 2008	292
U.S. property/casualty industry to report $59.2 billion in profits in 2007: but a decline in premiums, the first since 1943, and soft 2008 market forecast could mean tough times ahead for profits.	Industry overview	Mar 1, 2008	814
Balance shifts in build vs. buy: with Microsoft and Linux platforms having proved themselves, midsize property/casualty carriers in particular are more open than they were five or six years ago to choosing policy administration systems outside the mainframe environment.	Interview	Mar 1, 2008	1614
'Round and 'round.		Feb 1, 2008	249
Few carriers expected to suffer short term from subprime mortgage mess: longer-term, however, the subprime risk "contagion" could infect carriers with heavy exposure to mortgage-backed securities, analysts warn.		Feb 1, 2008	436
Long live commissions: brokers deserve as much as they can get.		Feb 1, 2008	304
Middle ground elusive: big rift underscores divide in comp claims management.		Jan 1, 2008	692
Will the liability market turn? The great subprime lending meltdown of 2007 will make life in 2008 a little more difficult for excess professional liability carriers. But will lawsuits be serious enough to turn the market?		Jan 1, 2008	1493
Wellness and disability: a drain on profits: the time has come for companies to ditch their costly and coddling wellness and disability programs.		Jan 1, 2008	670
Teeth missing from report.		Dec 1, 2007	247
European insurance executives hint at price increases in 2008 or 2009: cycle at or near bottom for many lines as hints of underpricing leak into the marketplace, executives say.		Dec 1, 2007	643
Extra commission rankles European buyers, carriers: but consensus is lacking on how best to reward brokers looking to make up for lower revenues in a soft market.		Dec 1, 2007	758