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Articles in Sept 1, 2007 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Rating ERM
• The real deal: success in the real-estate sector made Michael Isaacs an owner in his firm
  by Erin Fogg
• Baseball banter beats brokers
  by Tom Slattery
• The world wide whoa: old trusted protections can't be counted on anymore when it comes to content and liability in the wild Web 2.0
  by Matthew Brodosky
• New York Life Insurance Co
• The courts v. the Web
• Tracking bonds' record: a new bond index from Swiss Re provides needed transparency to CAT bond market, perhaps more
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Aspiring brokers rewarded
• A CRAP attitude toward risk: a risk-averse society has spawned pseudoscience and the phenomenon of Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis, a U.K. professor argues. Our U.K. contributing editor reports on the inexorable rise of CRAP
  by Graham Buck
• Liberty Mutual
• Stone Point funds new brokerage
• Safety and health at ground zero
• Father and Son & Co
  by Roger Crombie
• Gray Matters: Nancy Gray is a captive queen at Aon, having earned her crown by juggling a booming business in Vermont with major growth in emerging onshore domiciles. How does she do it?
  by Erin Fogg
• ULLICO
• 16th Annual National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference® & Expo: November 6-8, 2007
• E-Yikes!
• New Vermont formations take a dip: Vermont registers 14 captives in first six months of 2007, four less than last year
  by Erin Fogg
• Willis buys Internet distributor
• 13 days that shook their world: a team of rescue and recovery workers help with the aftermath of Sept, 11, but pay a steep price in terms of their health and out-of-pocket expenses
  by Steve Yahn
• Directory: risk management and employee benefits software
• R&R Insurance Services Inc
• Insurance Information Institute
• Upcoming events
• World wide watchdogs
• Play nice on the me-re-go-round: report: reinsurance prices declining, reinsurers competing among selves and with capital markets
  by Erin Fogg
• The buzz around the periphery: the application service provider, or ASP, model has been renamed as software-as-a-service, or SaaS. The model, however, is still preferred as a way to provide ancillary services
  by Tom Starner
• Liberty Mutual Agency Markets
• The guaranty fund system: a public policy success: guaranty funds have met their obligations, to the tune of $21 billion in claims to policyholders whose carriers have become insolvent
  by Roger H. Schmelzer
• The reinsurance rounds
• Courts want proactive insurers
  by Philip G. Kircher
• The 'cyber' risks of outsourcing: outsourcing does not mean out of mind when it comes to cyberliabilities. Instead, companies with databases full of client and employee information should be even more wary
  by Brian Branner
• Safety National Casualty Corp
• Worth repeating
• Making an impression
  by David M. Goldojarb
• More for your workers' comp money: study identifies states with "good value" for workers, employers
  by Joshua Clifton
• HRH buys Kansas agencies
• World Trade Center: breach of trust: how Sept. 11 altered the nation's workers' compensation landscape and eroded the trust implicit between employer and employee
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Pinning down the shifting boundaries of immunity: public colleges and universities are not immune to the legal onslaught that sometimes follows when tragedy strikes. Evolving state statutes could place more legal responsibility on schools
  by Susan Gurevitz
• Computer Sciences Corp
• CIAB takes on China
• Air most foul
  by Jack Roberts
• Hokie spirit stays strong
• Boston broker snatched
• Lessons learned from RMIS
  by Beaumont Vance
• Agencies jockey over evaluation models: ratings shops favor either newer capital adequacy models or "traditionalist" approaches to insurance companies' ERM programs
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Meritain Health
• Oligarchy alternative
  by Paul J. Hering
• Quote of the month
• Marsh counsel named judge
• Up in smoke: how safety procedures evaporated during the cleanup of the World Trade Center and how it is now affecting thousands of workers and public employees
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Price swings in the offing: reinsurance company earnings volatility is more sensitive to catastrophes than it used to be, potentially exposing buyers to greater swings in reinsurance pricing
  by Cyril Tuohy