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Articles in Sept 1, 2004 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Musings on the runoff racket
  by Roger Crombie
• Proceeding with caution: the consequences of a bad risk management decision in the freight transportation industry can be devastating and freight rails and the motor carriers have had to take a hard look at their risk management practices and their vulner
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Singing the praises of a federal charter: the patchwork of state rules has left the insurance industry in a dysfunctional straightjacket
  by Craig A. Berrington
• Survey: premium costs decline
• Not-so-cheap sleeps: expensive beds drive a wedge in workers' comp programs: when beds were made of slats and springs and cost a few hundred dollars, tacking the cost of a bed onto an insurance bill was a no-brainer. But with some beds costing as much as
  by Thomas G. Dolan
• Riddled in mystery: the development of insurance products is sometimes shrouded in mystery. Other products and services develop incrementally, without a whiff of a "Skunkworks" mentality. Perhaps most surprising, though, is the role regulators p
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• JMB Insurance Inc
• Willis to acquire Ireland broker
• Every so often there rises to the surface sentences so clear and prescient
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Corney hedges weather exposure
• The CRO: a species at risk: the position of chief risk officer is struggling to find a niche within many organizations. Beyond a few sectors, notably the energy and financial services industries, the need for a CRO is still hotly debated
  by Lawrence Richter Quinn
• Upcoming events
• Worth repeating
• Staking a claim: a spate of mergers and acquisitions activity in the RMIS world shows how difficult it is for independent shops to survive as the marketplace thirsts for "value-added" services
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Summit Global Partners Inc
• Study: firms lack severance policies
• 13th Annual National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference® & Expo
• CIAB files suit against P.R
• Imagining a Brave New World
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Risk management & benefits software directory
• A state regulatory system serves buyers best: when a single, national regulator makes a mistake, it will have significant consequences
  by Charles M. Chamness
• Sedgwick-XL claims alliance
• A thirst for brokered services
• Regaining control: vehicle tracking systems have come a long way in the last decade. New systems have features that do even more for the bottom line than just prevent theft. Insurers are taking notice
  by Owen Kurin
• Cozen O'Connor
• Title insurance
  by Curt Olsen
• A law's uneven spoils: a certification process to protect companies from liability in the development of anti terrorism products and services appears to favor big firms at the expense of small ones
  by Ann Deering
• Market Corp.'s Investors Underwriting
• The new scrutiny
• Worker indicted for fraud
• It's hip—or HIP—to be healthy
  by Len Strazewski
• Bridging a divide: administrator and educator Weili Lu first crossed the Pacific Ocean bridging China and the United States nearly two decades ago. Now she's hoping to bridge the generational divide by bringing risk management to a generation of young tal
  by Paula L. Green
• Attorney's Liability Assurance Society Ltd
• Alternative risk
  by J.P. Schmidt
• Health summit: costs have nowhere to go but up: experts may—or may not—be able to agree on how to fix the nation's health care ills. Yet they all agree that providing health insurance will keep on getting more expensive
  by Russ Allen
• Vanishing—slowly but surely—into thin air: in 1981, there were 124 U.S. reinsurers reporting to the Reinsurance Association of America. Only 45 of them were left by 2002, according to the RAA, and some of those that are left are now in runoff
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Clarendon Insurance Group
• RIMS plans London trip
• Smaller cities turn to software to fight terror: when raising taxes is not an option, the efficient allocation of manpower and resources is a town's best bet
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Running off with the cash
  by Robert W. Hammesfahr
• PMA Insurance Group