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Public risk management corruption cases grab their share of headlines. Is that because public sector risk managers are more corrupt or is it because they are exposed to more transparency?

Updates on some troublesome public sector risk management controversies.

We list some of the nation's top public risk pools, along with their key leaders and contact information.

After a decade of penance highlighted by million-dollar misconduct settlements, churches accept their responsibility and adopt more serious risk management programs but have yet to make believers out of the insurance markets.

Nonprofits and their risk managers are thwarting the demons of child molestation by focusing on identifying potential perpetrators: not by assuming they can teach effective self-defense to innocents.

Crime insurance is relatively inexpensive cover that can protect you against one of your hardest to predict risks: when your most-trusted apple in the barrel goes bad.

A listing of some of the nation's top nonprofit companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

Supporters of pooling mechanisms to buy insurance say they've been one of the insurance industry's big success stories.

America's cities and municipalities have learned from watching the suffering of New Orleans. Now they just must find the time to apply these lessons for emergency preparedness while handling all of the other risks that come their way every day.

Public skate parks are a municipal liability. One expert advises public risk managers how local governments can reduce their exposure.

The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for the public sector? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.

The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for nonprofits? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.

Public-sector risk management has its own twists and turns, unique from those in the private sector. So it makes perfect sense that these professionals would develop their own trade groups.

PERI, or the Public Entity Risk Institute, recently refurbished its Web site to better address the needs of local governments, schools, nonprofits and small businesses.

A former risk manager for one of the largest Catholic dioceses in the United States is setting out his own shingle: for now, anyway.