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Articles in Sept 1, 2005 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Upcoming events
• MetLife
• Opinion lacking balance
  by Cornelius N. Bakker, Jr.
• Annual spending on software & services for policy administration systems
• Time to re-act: since Three Mile Island, nuclear power in the United States has imploded into a Dark Ages of development. Recent legislation and strong support from the Bush administration, however, have energized the industry, along with its insurers
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Willis Group Holdings
• Workers' comp
• Insurance exec wins award
• Reflections on changing needs
  by Beaumont Vance
• A step in the right direction: a recent estimate indicates that the average 65-year-old couple retiring today will need more than $190,000 to cover medical expenses over the next 15 to 20 years. Employers want to offer their employees some solutions, but
  by Russ Allen
• Hayes Plus Inc
• Ace Ina
• Mapping
• An adverse reaction
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Explosions underscore a city's vulnerability to attack: London has its work cut out for it as multiple explosions, two weeks apart in July, reminded the world that attackers are unquestionably able to strike at the heart of crowded, built-up cities
  by Graham Buck
• When big storms go bad: CAT adjusters are the insurance industry's frontline against natural and man-made catastrophes. In the aftermath of Hurricane Dennis, Risk & Insurance's Matthew Brodsky traveled with adjusters from Crawford & Company. This
  by Matthew Brodsky
• A glimpse of success: three experts share their experience in improving their claims and benefits administration systems. Here's a hint: it was a lot of work, and retooling an enterprise claims system is never as easy as it sounds
• Objective analysis needed
  by Lynn Armstrong
• Spoiling for a fight over TRIA: the Bush administration wants to shift the risk of terrorism losses away from the government and onto the insurance industry. That's not sitting well with carriers, but there appears to be room for compromise
  by Matthew Brodsky
• How we misjudge health risks
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Directory: risk management and employee benefits software
• 14th annual national worker's compensation and disability conference® & expo
• Levitt to advise insurance giant
• W.'s memo for the fall: White House interoffice memorandum. Eyes only
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Who's next? Ratings agencies have a habit—either by design or by coincidence—of releasing ratings reviews when buyers and sellers engage in their annual prospecting rituals in Monaco. The market holds its breath to see who gets upgraded, and who
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Michael Zuckerman also joins Aon Healthcare as a senior vice president
• Property/casualty
• Occupational health
• Terror blitz no match for business continuity plans: Londoners give new meaning to "return-to-work" in the wake of terror attacks, thanks to detailed business-continuity planning and decades of terror drills
  by Graham Buck
• Beware of order takers
  by Charles H. Cox
• Firing up the paper chase: the world of insurance is built on documents, and a river of paper runs through it. After years of cost-cutting in the soft market, that flood of paper represents one of the few areas that insurers have left to cut costs. That h
  by Michael Fitzpatrick
• Peggy Cullen has joined Aon Corp.'s environmental practice as director of syndication, the firm has announced
• Claims processing
• Barrels cocked for Hiscox: U.K. underwriter hires veterans to develop the professional indemnity marketplace among midsize and smaller companies in the United States
  by Steve Yahn
• From booze to breakthroughs: higher-education risks still include drinking problems and mental-health issues while universities also grapple with emerging risks from research and technology
  by Susan Gurevitz
• American International Group Inc
• Claims
• AIG sells Pipeline Co. to GE unit
• Bermuda at risk
  by Roger Crombie
• Discipline this unruly lot! Reinsurers aren't shy about talking up their "disciplined" approach to changes in the marketplace, but their latest performance leaves much to be desired. If only "adverse developments" would just go away
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Aon Healthcare
• Judge blasts compliance law
• 2Q P&C losses decline
• Armed with knowledge: insurance agent David Lippa rose from the most modest of beginnings in Rochester, N.Y., to become the insurance industry's "man of letters." Just call him "The Designate."
  by John McDonald
• McQueary Henry Bowles Troy
• Worth repeating
• D&O
• Bush backs TRIA extension
• Appeals court bites down on dental malpractice: Fireman's Fund wins a round of legal wrangling after a court is not amused by a dentist's practical joke
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Spreading, the risk: the capital markets have acquired a healthy appetite for insurance-linked securities as a supplement to traditional reinsurance. Proponents say tightening spreads will elicit further interest in these products. Others are less sanguin
  by Linda Corman
• Aon Corp
• Employment practices