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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.

A tax break, preparing for the hard market and the Obama administration's tougher stance toward offshore domiciles are expected to benefit Vermont.

The government bailout of the Big Three could create even greater risks in numerous areas.

The Medicare Secondary Payer Act and the new SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 will have very different effects on workers' comp and liability cases.

New global pressures call for shipyards and marine cargo handling firms to adopt safety culture as more dock workers suffer injuries sustained by container-handling equipment.

Broadspire's Dennis Replogle and Ken Martino bring name recognition and experience to the TPA game.

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.

As if they didn't have enough to worry about, airlines also fend off discrimination suits from disabled passengers. Here's how they should fight them.

An eyewitness Hurricane Ike account of how an adjuster and his clients navigated their way through the early days of a large commercial loss.

The settlement with Ingenix regarding bill review practices, while changing the way usual and customary rates are calculated, only addresses part of the problem, according to bill reviewers.

Recent cases involving penalties against insurance carriers by the Office of Foreign Assets Control underscore the need for a formal policy.

The litigation aftermath after nearly two years of a rolling, worsening financial crisis will continue to play out. At the same time, the demand for D&O and E&O coverage has increased in the marketplace. Unless losses take on truly unexpected dimensions, most companies with competitive positions in the D&O and E&O markets should continue to meet this demand.

For brokers, there's nothing quite like a financial crisis to test their commitment to service and to stretch their imaginations in the service of clients.

Many brokers don't begin by planning to go into the insurance business. But once they're there, they can't imagine being anywhere else.

After a false start or two in the wake of the contingent commissions scandal unleashed by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Marsh's captains say their ship is finally on the right tack.