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Letters to the Editor
INNOVATOR INDEED Dear Editor:
The selection was right on target.Dan has been a leader in our discipline and could have qualified on several grounds.However, I agree with the nominator that sustainability was the right one.It's the most important issue we face as a society. I especially appreciate the attention that R&I gives to the academic world.No other periodical does so on such a consistent basis. It helps a lot! William H. Rabel, Ph.D., FLMI, CLU TeachingChair of Insurance & Financial Services Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama ----------------------------------------------------- STINKING HILARIOUS Dear Editor: Thank you, for not being politically correct.I just read your Roger on Risk column titled "Stinking Badgers" (Oct. 15, 2008, Page 16) and suspect that you have already received too many e-mails vilifying you for your solution for problem dogs.I had to stop myself from laughing out loud. I know the "We don't need no stinking badgers" line is a play on words from the movie "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," but were you quoting directly from John Laroquette's post Night Court television situation comedy?In this short-lived program, he played a recovering alcoholic bus terminal manager. The badger line was used in one of the episodes. Even without your canine solution and badger line, your column was enjoyable and I look forward to reading it in the next issue. Tom Sesko Personnel Director Redford Township Redford, Michigan ----------------------------------------------------- NOTHING BUT TALK! Dear Editor: I read with interest Tom Slattery's October column on contingencies. And while I did not agree completely, it prompted the RIMS response from Terry Fleming in December. That letter says it all about RIMS' actions concerning contingency fees. While risk manager of Rohm and Haas, I was in 1997 reportedly the first to fire Marsh because of contingency commissions. Yet, Fleming states, RIMS waited until 1999 to issue their first "statement" concerning contingencies. Also, as stated by Fleming, that is all RIMS has done since--issue statements asking for transparency. It is almost as if RIMS forgets they are a part of the insurance industry and, at that, the customer, probably the most important part. When has RIMS ever told risk managers to demand transparency or fire that broker ... never! In RIMS' one attempt at a "Quality Survey" several years ago, I believe the percentage of risk managers that had changed brokers was in the single digits. Come on RIMS, stop acting like the risk managers have no role and have them start taking action rather than just making statements. If RIMS doesn't advocate changing brokers we have seen what happens, or doesn't happen ... nothing but talk! Henry Good Risk Manager, retired Rohm and Haas Co. Philadelphia January 1, 2009 Copyright 2009© LRP Publications |
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