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            Issue
September 1, 2007
             Cover Story
World Trade Center In-Depth Series (Part 1): Up in Smoke
By Peter Rousmaniere
How safety procedures evaporated during the cleanup of the World Trade Center and how it is now affecting thousands of workers and public employees. MORE
Also: 13 Days That Shook Their World
Also: Clinicians Chosen to Keep Watch
Also: Recipients of a Toxic Mix
Also: The Safety and Health of Heavy Equipment Operators
Also: The WTC Task Force

             Features
A CRAP Attitude Toward Risk
By Graham Buck
A risk-averse society has spawned pseudoscience and the phenomenon of Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis, a U.K. professor argues. Our U.K. contributing editor reports on the inexorable rise of CRAP. MORE

Gray Matters
By Erin Fogg
Nancy Gray is a captive queen at Aon, having earned her crown by juggling a booming business in Vermont with major growth in emerging onshore domiciles. How does she do it? MORE

The World Wide Whoa
By Matthew Brodsky
Old trusted protections can't be counted on anymore when it comes to content and liability in the wild Web 2.0. MORE
Also: E-Yikes!
Also: The New Cyber Law

The 'Cyber' Risks of Outsourcing
By Brian Branner and Emily Freeman
Outsourcing does not mean out of mind when it comes to cyberliabilities. Instead, companies with databases full of client and employee information should be even more wary. MORE
Also: World Wide Watchdogs

The Buzz Around The Periphery
By Tom Starner
The application service provider, or ASP, model has been renamed as software-as-a-service, or SaaS. The model, however, is still preferred as a way to provide ancillary services. MORE

Using Software to Cut the Cost Of Compliance
By Bob Peterson
Three families of software applications--financial management, work-force management and business intelligence software--can help carriers compete. MORE

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             Special Reports
Insurance
Insurance and reinsurance companies are turning to ERM to attempt to ride out the waves of the pricing cycle, the current softening included, to make their businesses more successful and stable. And if they don't, the ratings agencies are right there to give them demerits.

More Special Reports

             In-Depth Series
Breach of Trust: World Trade Center
Here begins the Risk & Insurance in-depth series on how Sept. 11 forever altered the workers' comp landscape and eroded the trust implicit between employer and employee.

Past Installments

             Industry Risk Report
Higher Education
Public colleges and universities are not immune to the legal onslaught that sometimes follows when tragedy strikes. Evolving state statutes could place more legal responsibility on schools.

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