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Risk & Insurance Editors' Spotlight

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. MORE

Are You a Risk Innovator?

Introducing a new award program focused on innovation and excellence in risk management. Applications now being accepted. MORE

Features

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. MORE

Web Extras

Slide Rules

By Hugo Crawley

Prices are sliding in reinsurance, though the trend varies by class and by location. MORE

Web Extras

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. MORE

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. MORE

Are You a Risk Innovator?

Introducing a new award program focused on innovation and excellence in risk management. Applications now being accepted. MORE

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. MORE

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Columnists

Roger on Risk
By Roger Crombie
Marveling at Losing a Billion

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

Workers' Comp
By Peter Rousmaniere
Truth in Advertising?

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

Risk Management
By Beaumont Vance
Killing the 'Rational Man'

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

Beaumont Vance's Past Columns

The Law
By Philip G. Kircher
Chambers Disrobed

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

Special Reports

Alternative Risk/Capital Markets

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

Risk Education

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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