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News & Analysis

Editor's Choice Stories

Debate Over NAIC Climate Risk Disclosure Heating Up

Other states, including Alabama, Utah, South Carolina, Connecticut and Mississippi, may follow Indiana's lead and not distribute the NAIC survey to insurers.

CAT Reinsurance Let out of the Bag (updated)

Collateralized reinsurance is the hidden ILS market for investors, but a potential source of capital for primary carriers for the kinds of catastrophe losses bound to happen.

Troubled Political Times (Continued ...)

Thinking of having operations in Central Asia? Going after oil in Iraq? Opening an office in Latin America? Political risk might make you think again.

More News & Analysis

The hospitality industry has significant insurance coverage issues (Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog)

Resurgent Lloyd's looks for shake-up (Telegraph)

A boost for insurance capital (CFO)

Industry groups give thumbs down to Obama's reinsurance proposals (Royal Gazette)

Study: Workers' comp patients get less benefit from back surgery (EHS Today)

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Risk & Insurance Editors' Spotlight

Brazil Beckons

Global reinsurers see a promising situation in Brazil. MORE

Turning the Tide on Head Injuries

A leading advocate for protecting athletes' brains believes true systematic change is coming. MORE

Features

Unbundling Claims the Right Way

When risk managers unbundle claims administration from their insurance carriers, there's a right way and a wrong way. Self-administration can be the wrong way for many. Here's why tapping a TPA could be the right way. MORE

Share Your Insights in Catastrophic Loss Survey

Risk & Insurance® and Ernst & Young are working together to find out how companies are responding to the risk of catastrophic loss and recovery through a new industrywide survey. Our findings will help identify how companies prepare for and respond to catastrophic loss, as well as the skills and practices risk professionals need to succeed. MORE

Benefits Power Broker^TM Application Available Now

The winners of the 2010 Benefits Power Broker^TM Awards will appear in our June issue. To nominate someone for the awards, or to put yourself in the running, please download the 2010 application. MORE

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Columnists

The Law
By Philip G. Kircher
Waving Guns in Our Nation's Capital

Recent gun possession decisions highlight the importance of understanding state laws.MORE

Philip G. Kircher's Past Columns

Workers' Comp
By Peter Rousmaniere
Blunting Political Vindictiveness

Most state funds value professionalism over politics. The most recent and glaring exception, however, is in North Dakota.MORE

Peter Rousmaniere's Past Columns

Loss Control
By Steve Hernandez
Link Loose in Your Supply Chain?

Risks associated with an increasingly global and decentralized supply chain must be aggressively managed.MORE

Steve Hernandez's Past Columns

Strategy
By David M. Wong
The "REALLY!?!" Approach to Risk

I recently shuttered 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

David M. Wong's Past Columns

Risk Innovation
By Christopher E. Mandel
Insurer Back-up Plans

We still haven't quite cracked the code on ensuring the safety and soundness of insurance companies. MORE

Christopher E. Mandel's Past Columns

Roger on Risk
By Roger Crombie
Cookies are Monster Risks

I write today with great urgency, to advise you of an insidious threat to the future of mankind: the chocolate biscuit. MORE

Roger Crombie's Past Columns

Risk Management
By Joanna Makomaski
Show Thy Greatness

This column is my last risk management column for 2009. This fact made me take stock and assess what tends to happen for risk managers at year-end other than the feverish closing of books, relentless accounting activities and, how can I forget, wonderful Christmas celebrations.MORE

Joanna Makomaski's Past Columns

Technology
By Patricia Vowinkel
IT Spenders

After emerging from a tough year when the stock market tanked, investment returns declined and the insurance market remained generally soft, it would not come as any big surprise to find that insurers were cutting back on their IT spending in 2010.MORE

Patricia Vowinkel's Past Columns

Special Reports

Alternative Risk

We examine two big trends in the captive insurance space: one, the rise of captives for healthcare benefits, and how federal legislation will affect it; and two, the emergence of new hot domiciles like Kentucky.

More Special Reports

In-Depth Series

Fraud: Fighting the Dollar Drain

We take an in-depth look in a three-part series at the kinds of fraud plaguing the workers' compensation system around the country, and the steps being taken to uncover it and prosecute the wrongdoers.

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