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Editor's Choice Stories
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Captive Owners Cite Collateral Issues as Top Concern for 2010
Collateral issues made No. 1 concern in CICA's survey, as insurers try to avoid being overexposed to certain banks. Chartis tops the list of fronting carriers.
Adapting to the Real "Alternative" Insurance Market
Demographic changes in store for the United States give new meaning to the expression "alternative markets" when it comes to how the industry must recruit, train and market.
Liberty Mutual 4Q Net Income Edges Up
Fewer CAT-related payouts and robust revenues from international operations help boost profits, despite intense price battles in commercial lines.
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Can aging nuclear reactors be safe? (Scientific American)
FBI nab cyber-extortionist who sought $3 million from NY insurance firm (ZDNet)
AIG "jewel' took 91 years to build, week to dismantle: Timeline (Bloomberg)
Recent high profits for insurers attracting new underwriters (Space News)
Novato's Fireman's Fund selects the riskiest films of the year (Marin Independent Journal)
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Risk & Insurance Editors' Spotlight
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Features
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The Great Captive Shuffle
Fresh blood courses through the captive regulatory veins in Vermont, Delaware, Arizona, Utah, Hawaii and Nevada, as new faces prepare to alter the captive landscape.
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Taking Stock
As rates hold the line, it is a good year for risk managers to take stock of their coverage and get their professional liability insurance house in order as a market hardening may come in the form of a tightening of underwriting standards.
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Have the Capital Markets Come to You
Corporate catastrophe bonds are a rare breed, especially in this soft insurance market. But with the cost of bonds coming down and new technologies available, the capital markets could be more appealing than ever to risk managers.
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Unclouded Visions of Software Delivery
For many vendors who sell to the risk management community, cloud computing, or the ability to rent out software, platforms and infrastructure as needed, represents the latest step in delivering computing power as a service.
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Benefits Power BrokerTM: Deadline Extended
We are now accepting applications for the 2010 Benefits Power Broker TM Awards until March 15. To nominate someone for the awards, or to put yourself in the running, please download the 2010 application.
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Columnists
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The Law By Philip G. Kircher
Waving Guns in Our Nation's Capital
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Recent gun possession decisions highlight the importance of understanding state laws.MORE |
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Risk Management By Joanna Makomaski
Who Takes the Bullet?
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This past Christmas, I saw three back-to-back news events that left me flabbergasted. MORE |
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Loss Control By Steve Hernandez
Link Loose in Your Supply Chain?
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Risks associated with an increasingly global and decentralized supply chain must be aggressively managed.MORE |
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Workers' Comp By Peter Rousmaniere
A Solution for Chronic Pain?
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Effort to contain rising medical costs in the past decade focused on the 5 percent of lost time claimants with chronic pain. MORE |
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Roger on Risk By Roger Crombie
This Industry Is Toast
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In an American strip mall, somewhere, stands a Chinese restaurant. It doesn't do very well and goes out of business. The boards go up; we learn that a Chinese restaurant doesn't work in that particular spot.MORE |
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Strategy By David M. Wong
The "REALLY!?!" Approach to Risk
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I recently shuddered when I heard a well-respected business person state that "we can safely assume that the financial crisis is the worst possible crisis imaginable." MORE |
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Risk Innovation By Christopher E. Mandel
Is Reputation a Risk?
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Many pundits and other purported experts treat reputation as a risk, and it is often viewed that way among risk practitioners.MORE |
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Technology By Patricia Vowinkel
Cyber Threats in 2010
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The evil geniuses who cook up schemes to attack your Web sites and networks are hard at work once again in 2010.MORE |
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Special Reports
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Alternative Risk
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Dennis Harwick, head of the Captive Insurance Companies Association, opens up about the major challenges facing the captive insurance industry. And we explore what will be the hot topics at the upcoming CICA annual conference.
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In-Depth Series
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Claims Management: TPAs
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Risk managers often rely on their third-party administrators (TPAs) to execute on everything from claims handling to policy administration. Here's a closer look at the value of the TPA.
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Industry Risk Report
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Environmental Services
Firms that provide environmental services to other firms are in essence doing double duty from a risk management
perspective. Meanwhile, chemical firms are doing their best to match the environmental risk management standards imposed by an increasingly wary federal government. Click above to read more on the industry, or view the industry risk table to see the major players, and their brokers and risk management strategies.
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