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Issue

February 1, 2008

Cover Story

Power Broker^TM 2008: The 'Total Package' Unwrapped

By Erin Gazica

Who are this year's Power Broker^TM winners, and what makes them tick? A market hard or soft, when it comes to serving commercial insurance customers, service still rules the day. MORE
Also: What It Takes to Be a Power Broker

Features

Soured on Service

By Dan Reynolds

Though many buyers were happy with their individual brokers last year, others weren't shy about blurting out brokers' shortcomings. MORE
Also: Labor Gators
Also: Soft-Serve Insurance Markets

Family Renewals

By Matthew Brodsky

The brokerage business is fertile soil for growing family trees--if anything because all producers are measured equally no matter what last name they bear. MORE
Also: Lockton Knows Family Businesses
Also: The Family Business Research Center
Also: Brokering With Your Brother (Or Your Father, Sister or Mother)

Talent, Technology, Action!

By Steven Yahn

DeWitt Stern Group has taken a cache of entertainment business talent wrested away from Marsh and Aon and run with it. MORE
Also: Cue, Chubb

The Unstoppables

By Risk & Insurance staff

First-time standouts among this year's Power Broker^TM selections share the following traits: leadership, ambition, knowledge, service and, of course, youth. MORE

A Test of Discipline

By Dan Reynolds

Excess and surplus lines carriers will have to walk an increasingly fine line in this softer insurance market. But how many of them will have the self-control to do it? MORE
Also: Bright Spots in a Bleak Market

Has Competition Vanished?

By Peter Rousmaniere

Coventry makes big gains in the workers' comp marketplace, but there's still plenty of room for alternative models. MORE
Also: Understanding Medical Provider Networks

A Brighter Outlook

By Tom Starner

Associative filing vendors anchored to Microsoft's Outlook e-mail and database application capture the interest and the business of carriers and intermediaries. MORE

Protection for E-85 Producers

By Darren Small

Without adequate business income insurance, ethanol producers are at risk of significant losses that could put their operations in jeopardy. MORE
Also: A Way to Quantify ERM's Value?

Columns

Workers' Comp - Shipbreaking in Mumbai
Roger on Risk - 2 Wrongs a Right Do Not Make
The Law - A Hellhole of my 'Yout'
Risk Management - Don't Shoot the Messenger
Brokerage - John Cosgrove Had It Right

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