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April 15, 2006
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Cover Story
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Spinning a Cytokine Storm
By Patricia Vowinkel
The likelihood of an avian flu pandemic is the subject of raging expert debate. Alarmists claim corporate America isn't doing enough to protect itself. Skeptics point to interests vested in whipping up hysteria. Either way, we have "been warned," says Michael Leavitt, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Features
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Model Apocalypse
By Matthew Brodsky
The modeling firm Risk Management Solutions comes up with a new probabilistic Influenza Pandemic Risk model. Out of it comes one doozie of a scenario.
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Flying on a Wing and a Prayer
By Patricia Vowinkel
Avian flu losses sail below, above and between existing policies. Just how far coverage extends is anyone's guess.
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Facing Killer Terms
By Patricia Vowinkel
Life insurers face massive payouts in the event of an outbreak of the avian flu. There is a silver lining as well: There would be a spike in demand for new life policies from survivors of the cytokine storm.
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Avian.Flu@edu
By Susan Gurevitz
With so many people living in such close quarters, colleges and universities "act like giant petri dishes" in which a virus can grow and mutate. The paradox of some pandemics is that they are more likely to kill the healthiest among us.
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Targets of the Avian Trigger
By Patricia Vowinkel
Travel, tourism, the poultry business and the hospitality sectors are especially vulnerable, according to analysts.
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Employers Play Benefits Card
By Peter Mead
Employers intent on cutting or capping employee benefits costs are finding organized labor still a force to be reckoned with, despite shrinking membership.
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The Carve-Out Solution
By Samuel H. Fleet
For years, it made sense to pool retirees with active employees for health-care benefits. But retirees today live longer and prescription-drug expenditures are increasing at a significant rate, driving explosive health-care costs. Bottom line: It's time for a new strategy.
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'Premium' Wars
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Unlocking the Identity Puzzle
By Jack Hermansen
Are your customers friend or foe? Insurance companies and a variety of other industries are required to take precautions against accidentally doing business with terrorists and other enemies of state. But global language differences can make this a daunting rule to comply with.
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Traction Troubles
By Mindy W. Toran
More than three years after the introduction of consumer-directed health plans, the jury is still out. Several factors are influencing enrollees' satisfaction levels.
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Winning Over Workers
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The Taste of Bittersweet
By Joshua Clifton
Workers' comp rates have stabilized, but the cost per claim is surging and the gains of 2005 are under attack this year.
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From Promises To Prime Time
By David Meyer
Early adopters got into the Web-services game a while ago, but most insurers took a wait-and-see stance and held off for proof of performance. The time may now be ripe to get on board--but jumping on without a good strategy could make for a rough ride.
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Web Services Words to the Wise
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Quiet Tension
By John Otrompke
Decreased fatality statistics have helped keep prices fairly soft, but the nation's aging infrastructure is forcing some highway authorities to retain more risk. That may foreshadow future hardening of prices.
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Columns
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Departments
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Special Reports
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Catastrophic Risk
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The view from the top of risk managers who deal with some of our world's most complicated, costly and terrifying risks: Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff and David Ripsom of Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd.
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More Special Reports
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Industry Risk Report
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Telecommunications
Telecom risk managers are a tight-lipped bunch when it comes to divulging the details of their trade, and they're just as protective over their retentions for exposures ranging from property to satellite launch risk, from employee benefits to consolidation risks. Especially when it comes to the new emerging perils associated with data protection, however, keeping to themselves seems to mean that these risk managers know what they're doing. Click above to read more on this industry, or view the industry risk table.
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