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Risk & Insurance Editors' Spotlight
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The Most Read Stories From April
Here we are, already into the middle of May. We can't slow down time, but we can try to appreciate April for what it brought us ... like our top five most-read stories of the month. Find out what your colleagues and competitors are interested in.
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Are You a Risk Innovator?
Introducing a new award program focused on innovation and excellence in risk management. Applications now being accepted.
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Features
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Cover: Master Sleuths
By Michael Fitzpatrick
Litigators and consultants now search through gigabytes of data instead of boxes of paper files. Finding, collecting and reviewing all that digital information, however, is a very costly endeavor.
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Web Extras
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Slide Rules
By Hugo Crawley
Prices are sliding in reinsurance, though the trend varies by class and by location.
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Web Extras
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Best of the Blog--The Wrap-Up
That's all, folks. RIMS is over. All that planning, and it flew by faster than Thanksgiving dinner. But the Risk at RIMS 2008 Blog lives on! Check out our last thoughts and parting shots, and rehash the sights, sounds and smells of San Diego.
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Call for Teddy Award 2008 Nominations
Every year, Risk & Insurance identifies and honors companies and public entities that have exceptional workers' compensation and disability management programs with a special award: the Theodore Roosevelt Workers' Compensation and Disability Management Awards. The application and nomination process has begun. Click here to find out more.
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Are You a Risk Innovator?
Introducing a new award program focused on innovation and excellence in risk management. Applications now being accepted.
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The 2009 Power Broker Nomination Form
The role of the broker continues to evolve. More and more, the broker's role isn't defined by simple placement. Instead, risk assessment and risk consulting are increasingly important.
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Columnists
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Roger on Risk By Roger Crombie
Marveling at Losing a Billion
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Watching Security Capital Associates self-destruct earlier this year was an object lesson. In case you missed it, here's the story. At the end of 2006, the company had $1.366 billion of shareholders' equity. A year later, 97 percent of it was gone.MORE |
Roger Crombie's Past Columns
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Workers' Comp By Peter Rousmaniere
Truth in Advertising?
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It's time for truth in advertising about how insurers recruit doctors into provider networks. Last October CIGNA, the health insurer, signed a settlement agreement with Andrew Cuomo, New York state's attorney general, about how CIGNA ranked doctors.MORE |
Peter Rousmaniere's Past Columns
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Risk Management By Beaumont Vance
Killing the 'Rational Man'
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When trying to untangle the cases of past disasters, have you ever noticed that somewhere in the chain of events, someone made an irrational decision? Most risk managers will attest that people make bad, silly and crazy decisions from time to time.MORE |
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The Law By Philip G. Kircher
Chambers Disrobed
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There is a recently published "novel" by a former law clerk for a Philadelphia federal appellate judge that has sent shockwaves through the legal community. It is thinly-veiled fiction, clearly based upon real experiences behind the closed doors of a sitting federal judge's chamber. MORE |
Philip G. Kircher's Past Columns
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Special Reports
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Alternative Risk/Capital Markets
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Our two-part special report features an insider's take on the state of the P/C reinsurance market, along with a look at how private-equity operations insure themselves.
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In-Depth Series
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Risk Education
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With the talent shortage in the insurance and risk management industry, the demand for top-notch education in the field is clearly on the rise--and universities and other training programs are responding.
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Industry Risk Report
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Internet Retail
The ages-old challenge of mitigating risks to the supply chain remains paramount for retailers, whether they rely on the Internet-only channel or whether they are traditional brick-and-mortar companies building out their Web sites. In addition, international expansion in the quest for profits also carries with it the cultural risks related to foreign consumer tastes and habits. Click above to read more on this sector, or view the industry risk table.
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