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Articles in Sept 1, 2003 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Calendar of upcoming events
• Blowing smoke: mixed signals at IIS powwow
  by Maryanne Sherman
• A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- of Lloyd's of London
• Safety and W.C. software
• A national strategy to fight cyber terrorism falls on risk managers: the federal mandate may well force the closure of the gap between the risk management and IT camps
  by Tom Starner
• Spill prevention
• ACORD
• Enhancing risk management
• Standard & Poor's Risk Solutions has launched portfolio risk modeling for the banking industry, the ratings agency has announced
• Worker's comp parties: beware of Medicare! A year after settling a claim for $600,000, Medicare came knocking on the carrier's door
  by Patty Meifert
• The big split: insurers and reinsurers part ways over a 'malevolent mineral': insurers seem to believe reinsurers will pick up the tab for asbestos liabilities. Reinsurers aren't talking
  by Barbara A. Morris
• Business owners policy
• PartnerRe
• Waking up to Java: why risk managers need J2EE: integration, open standards and IBM's backing favor Sun Microsystems, platform
  by Jim Haley
• From the editor
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Property insurer FM Global and Worcester Polytechnic Institute will increase their collaboration on fire research and fire protection engineering graduate education, FM Global has announced
• Higher yields: how subrogation managers use the Web to recover claims: a subrogation unit may not only experience an increase in recoveries, but also a jump in the speed with which they can recover claims
  by Elissa Palmer
• How to manage the risk of punitive damages: companies that manage punitive damages as a separate category of risk are frequently better able to limit their exposures
  by Lori S. Nugent
• Employee benefits
• Exult Inc
• New Bermuda leader vows to keep insurers
  by Jack Roberts
• The insurance industry should not be considered as a safety net for society unless people are willing to pay even higher premiums, Dennis Mahoney, the head of global insurance broker Aon, said at a recent meeting
• Reputational risk: Marriott International Inc. hunts for alternatives to protect its brand
  by Lawrence Richter Quinn
• Risk & Insurance magazine
• Offshore protection
• Fireman's Fund Insurance Co
• Why dot-net isn't 'dot-not': interoperability and operational stability give Microsoft's platform an edge
  by Josh Lee
• A Pennsylvania court has allowed policyholders
• Risk management software
• Doing battle in this hard market: while risk managers can't do much about premium increases, they are doing something to ease the burden of lengthy applications
  by John Otrompke
• Safety handrails
• XL Capital
• Italy's largest insurer, Assicurazioni Generali SpA, has increased its position in the French market with the acquisition of a 99.6 percent stake in Paris-based insurance group Continent Holding
• Ironic risk: world's insurance haven … at risk
  by Roger Crombie
• Claims management
• Risk management & benefits software
• PricewaterhouseCoopers'
• Regional sales managers by territory
• Worth repeating …
• ARC Excess and Surplus, LLC, established in 1986, has opened an office in Pasadena, Calif
• Filling a P/C niche: in a world of analysts cranking out studies "a mile wide and an inch deep," one consulting firm opts to go a mile deep and an inch wide
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Facing a fragile future: though profitable in 2002, reinsurers face long-term challenges
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Web-based underwriting
• Marsh Inc
• Rumblings of insurance alternatives at AIRMIC
  by Graham Buck
• A London court has found in favour of Fairfax Financial in the case of Sphere Drake Insurance, a unit of Fairfax Financial's European run-off group
• A liability your data can't afford: a proponent of online backup systems urges agencies to ditch their tape-based infrastructure
  by Bob Cramer
• Assessing the state of the market: companies will be defined by the ability of the reinsurance market to handle future losses
  by Jack Roberts
• Grain elevator protection
• Mutual of America Capital Management Corp
• The 12th Annual National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference® & Exhibit: November 19-21, 2003: Lakeside Center at McCormick Place Chicago
• Hoping to boost sales, GM dealers take a risk and hand over the keys to prospective buyers
  by Cyril Tuohy
• A post-industrial age turnaround
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Integrated P&C solutions
• Rethinking 'sacred cows' in measuring comp claims: defining quality in terms of "process measures" simply won't do in this market
  by Maddy Bowling
• Willis North America
• Fair, Isaac and Co. Inc
• Willis Group Holdings Ltd., an insurance broker, has formed a joint venture with Bhaichand Amoluk Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. to provide insurance broking and risk management services in India
• How not to spoil your case before going to court
  by Robert R. Reeder
• Powering claims management
• How emerging technologies improve claims quality: time to drive a stake in retrospective file audits which impede the improvement in claims measurement
  by Maddy Bowling
• American International Group Trading