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October 15, 2005
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Cover Story
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Risk, Improved With Age
By Angela Childers and Joshua Clifton
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Features
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The Great Grape Secret: Location, Location, Location
By Angela Childers and Joshua Clifton
Wine-makers who get the location variable right save themselves a lot of trouble in insuring and managing risks later on.
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Governments Step in
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School of Hard Knocks
By John McDonald
With eight campuses scattered throughout Mississippi's ravaged Gulf Coast, administrators at the University of Southern Mississippi are dealing with physical and intellectual property losses. And all this before many of USM's 15,000 students even arrived on campus for the fall semester.
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Warming up for the Great Fall Pilgrimage
By John McDonald
As experts in workers' compensation, return-to-work and disability management prepare for the 14th Annual Workers' Comp and Disability Conference, managing return-to-work issues is moving to the front burner.
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'Heard' Mentality
By John McDonald
An agent-broker trade group pushes for a common language to make it easier to communicate, but finds that the task is still not easy. A common idiom is still at least two years off.
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Taking the Hit
By Patricia Vowinkel
Long after the mud is washed away from the streets and homes of Biloxi and New Orleans, the insurance industry will still be tallying up the impact.
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Trade Credit's Stubborn Streak
By Cyril Tuohy
Despite a marketplace offering more options than ever before for medium-term trade-credit insurance products, buyers still aren't getting much of a break.
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Katrina's Winds of Change
By Roger Crombie
Reinsurance claims could exceed maximum policy limits with a loss of Katrina's magnitude, but will the event change the way reinsurers underwrite and weigh such catastrophes?
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Columns
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Departments
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Special Reports
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Benefits
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Healthcare and pension benefits scare the heck out of employers. For good reason, even with the supposed success of consumer-driven healthcare and the demise of defined-benefit pensions.
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Industry Risk Report
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Entertainment
Risky business is Hollywood's stock-in trade. With movies costing hundreds of millions of dollars to produce, the studios routinely have their survival at stake when making a big-budget flick. Entertainment conglomerates self-insure many of their risks and don't hesitate to use complex financial instruments to hedge against the fickle tastes of the audience, the enormous fixed costs in movie production and the volatile egos of big-name talent. Click above to read more on this industry, or view the industry risk table.
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