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Cyril Tuohy "Floating on a raft of ambiguity: the Cayman Islands drift offshore, unsure of whether they want to follow the fecund currents of capital or set course for land and the relative safety of the state". Risk & Insurance. FindArticles.com. 01 Jan, 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BJK/is_12_16/ai_n15681137/
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- Court rules on WCF ownership
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Hurricanes: a hot topic getting hotter: recent reports about warming oceans and horrific hurricanes may have risk execs considering a move inland, and carriers adding more policy exclusions
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Still in the lead: Bermuda, the global leader when it comes to hosting captive insurance companies, held its first annual captive conference in September. The hope is that the meeting will boost interest in the island, which has seen its share of the capt
by Roger Crombie - Willis Group Holdings
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Diary of a CAT man: our associate editor travels to the Gulf Coast just days after Hurricane Katrina hit to survey the damage and discovers the real meaning of the word "adjustment."
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Programming for success: Robert Petrie couldn't figure out his major in college. A semester off from school and a volunteering gig later, Petrie discovered his focus in lifeand programmed his way to a career in risk management and the position of CE
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Top 10 risk managers' mistakes: a consulting firm releases its list of the greatest risk management miscues, leaving risk execs wondering: how many checkmarks do I get?
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Messing with models: executives from a disaster-modeling firm travel to the Gulf Coast looking for clues to fine-tune their computer models
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Tighter terms, higher prices to drown buyers: property/casualty renewals up by at least 25 percent on Gulf Coast
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A prescription for health-care anxiety: the costs of health care are closing in on most American businesses. The one bright spot in health benefits, however, has been prescription drug plans. But with the present success of PBMs come doubts and fears abou
by Russ Allen -
One bad Kat: business owners and adjusters begin the painstaking, often frustrating process of assessing the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina. A massive piece of the real losses, howeverthe wholesale shredding of the social fabricmay never
by Matthew Brodsky -
Big Iron's back: after flirting with newer, distributed technology systems, insurers are taking a fresh look at the ones they originally brought to the dance. They're seeing new promise, and serious savings, in an old familiar technologytheir mainfr
by Michael Fitzpatrick - Liability
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Read all about it: big easy paper beats Zurich on matters of intent: narrowly interpreted, a recent federal appeals court case could be seen as a disagreement over excess fidelity insurance. More broadly, it could also be celebrated as a victory of aggrie
by Matthew Brodsky -
Time to adjust: claims adjusters find it's heavy slogging as they try to reach clients left stranded by Hurricane Katrina
by Matthew Brodsky -
Decoding the risk multiple: whether it's a happy event such as the birth of quadruplets to an employee or the kind of unhappy incident that inflicts multiple injuriesperhaps a hotel fire at a conference or a shuttle-bus accident involving several em
by Michelle Fallahi -
It's decision time
by Jack Roberts - Worth repeating
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Captive to conflicting interests: many times, captive board members have lots of expertise in their own industry, but little knowledge of insurance. Captive managers usually provide the insurance expertise. But captives can get a truly unbiased perspectiv
by Patricia Vowinkel - Greene-Hazel & Associates
- Reinsurers' combined ratio up
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Spinning modeling tourbillions
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Floating on a raft of ambiguity: the Cayman Islands drift offshore, unsure of whether they want to follow the fecund currents of capital or set course for land and the relative safety of the state
by Cyril Tuohy - Compliance
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- Late payment penalties
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What Katrina tells us about TRIA
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Cleaning up after your computer: toxics from electronic scrap are emerging in streams and are bobbing on companies' risk horizons. One step ahead of Congress, brokers and underwriters say they are addressing this growing but fractured market
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