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October 1, 2005
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Cover Story
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One Bad Kat
By Matthew Brodsky
Business owners and adjusters begin the painstaking, often frustrating process of assessing the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina. A massive piece of the real losses, however--the wholesale shredding of the social fabric--may never be truly recovered.
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Diary of a 'CAT Man'
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Messing With Models
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Time to Adjust
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Features
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Time to Adjust
By Matthew Brodsky
Claims adjusters find it's heavy slogging as they try to reach clients left stranded by Hurricane Katrina.
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Diary of a 'CAT Man'
By Matthew Brodsky
Our associate editor travels to the Gulf Coast just days after Hurricane Katrina hit to survey the damage and discovers the real meaning of the word "adjustment."
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A Prescription for Health-Care Anxiety
By Russ Allen
The costs of health care are closing in on most American businesses. The one bright spot in health benefits, however, has been prescription drug plans. But with the present success of PBMs come doubts and fears about their future.
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Medicare Part D: Part Solution or Part Problem?
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Messing With Models
By Matthew Brodsky
Executives from a disaster-modeling firm travel to the Gulf Coast looking for clues to fine-tune their computer models.
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Decoding the Risk Multiple
By Michelle Fallahi
Whether it's a happy event such as the birth of quadruplets to an employee or the kind of unhappy incident that inflicts multiple injuries--perhaps a hotel fire at a conference or a shuttle-bus accident involving several employees--managing exposure to multiple medical claims is a rising concern.
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Multiple Impacts
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Programming for Success
By Barbara A. Morris
Robert Petrie couldn't figure out his major in college. A semester off from school and a volunteering gig later, Petrie discovered his focus in life--and programmed his way to a career in risk management and the position of CEO of a major software provider.
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Big Iron's Back
By Michael Fitzpatrick
After flirting with newer, distributed technology systems, insurers are taking a fresh look at the ones they originally brought to the dance. They're seeing new promise, and serious savings, in an old familiar technology--their mainframes.
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The Rewards of a Go-Slow Approach
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Columns
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Departments
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Special Reports
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Alternative Risk
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Bermuda is still considered the leader of the pack when it comes to captives, and the Cayman Islands and smaller domiciles still suffer from the laundering blues. But wherever a captive is, it is sure to benefit from reading about how captive board members might not know what they're doing.
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More Special Reports
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Industry Risk Report
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Waste Management
While environmental insurance policies are a requirement in the insurance portfolios of just about every waste management company, these companies also take out general liability and directors' and officers' liability policies. When it comes to workers' comp, many companies in the waste management sector, however, opt to self-insure. Click above to read more on this industry, or view the industry risk table.
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