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May 1, 2011
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Cover Story
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Most Dangerous Emerging Risks
This is the first of an annual report identifying emerging risks not on everyone's radar screen. Some are known risks with unanticipated outcomes that could be game changers if they occur.
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Features
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Phantom Business Interruption: No Recourse?
An ARkStorm devastated California nearly 150 years ago. For businesses on the East Coast, there would be no recourse for a repeat.
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What is an ARkStorm?
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Solar Weather: Storms From Our Volatile Sun
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Political Risk: Emerging From Left, Right and Center
Political risk never went away, but the ripples of faraway regimes are felt here at home, which is now everywhere.
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Toxic Water: Pollution and Scarcity Flow Together
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Sea Level Risk: A Nexus of Climate, Rising Waters and Infrastructure
When more volatile weather meets creaky infrastructure, low-lying areas better look out.
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Pervasive Nanotechnology: The Tiniest Risk With the Biggest Potential Impact
It's seemingly everywhere and its impact might not be known for decades.
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Cyberleaks: Soft Target, Hard Data
The gap between technological innovation and the ability to protect data offers criminals an opening to launch attacks through the network.
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Social Media: Touch Too Much?
It's great to reach people in real time, but you'd better think twice before posting to the web. How and when companies face risks on Facebook.
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Social Media Tips
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Aging Workers: Old And Gray ... In the Way or Leading the Way?
Employees face a two-pronged challenge. One comes from workers' comp and disability. Another comes courtesy of employment-practices liability.
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Distressed Cities: When the State Falls Short, Who Bears the Cost?
Local governments are looking to the private sector to help fund city services, but some employers are being made to shoulder the burden.
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Major Deficits
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10 Risks That Can Change the Game
More emerging risks that could soon be delivering unanticipated outcomes to an enterprise near you.
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Where Cyber Coverage Starts or Ends
Cyberliablity coverage under general liability, professional liability, or property policies are either very limited or even simply accidental.
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Drilling Down Into the Coverage
Insurance considerations for energy industry risk managers engaged in natural gas extraction from shale formation.
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May the Force-Multiplier Be With You
Is your insurance broker equipped for today's fast-paced business world with access to modern-day tools to boost productivity?
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Is Your Broker up to Date?
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Filling in the Missing Links
When BC Transit Corp. offered to build an elevated train with no driver more then 20 years ago, insurers balked. Then British Columbia passed legislation permitting captives and that was the signal BC Transit's risk manager was looking for.
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All Shook Up
The Great Recession, which has taken a toll on risk management departments, has forced chief risk officers and managers to renew themselves and reorganize their departments.
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Adjusting for Realities
Construction auditors, de facto project managers, bridge the gaps between professionals working on loss adjustment in connection with a construction claim.
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Buoyed by the Buy Side
Buyers look like they are returning to the market for program administrators, despite lower multiples and the soft market.
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Exploring the Myths and Realities of Aggregation
Are private equity portfolio risk management programs an effective strategy or simply a marketing tool?
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Employer Contribution Obligations
Considerations for employers participating in multiemployer pension plans.
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Columns
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Departments
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Special Reports
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Liability
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Want to know how to get your employment practices liability insurance underwritten properly? Or how to avoid the plaintiff's bar and False Claims Act lawsuits? Read this month's diverse Liability Special Report.
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More Special Reports
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In-Depth Series
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Technology In-Depth Series (Part 1): It's the Speed of the Read
Mobile technology can advance the speed of claims resolution and loss analysis and tighten the control of risk management data.
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Past Installments
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Industry Risk Report
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Public Sector
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More Industry Risk Reports
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