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Articles in Oct 1, 2007 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Online learning launch
• Bloomberg's panel
• Don't blame the Nexters: report: look to baby boomers, not their children, for added stress on the workplace
  by Dan Reynolds
• Chronic pain: getting serious
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Talk isn't cheap: improving communication among doctors, nurses and patients can help reduce medical errors, but doing so sometimes means making sure that strategy triumphs over culture
  by Dan Reynolds
• Plugging the brain drain: with the fear in some quarters that intellectual capital is leaving the insurance industry faster than it can be replaced, here are some steps to reduce the impact of retirement and increase employee retention
  by Nancy Germond
• Softening pandemic
• Lloyd's electric warrior: the reforming zeal of Lloyd's chief is still encountering some heavy-duty resistance
  by Graham Buck
• The disease within: disasters like Sept. 11 create hundreds of disease claims, but workers' comp systems are structured to reject these claims. Rescue, recovery and cleanup workers stand little chance of seeing a dime in compensation
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Med Mal lessens its pinch: but allow us to introduce a new malady—medical identity theft
  by Dan Reynolds
• Aon fires up
• Arch fights fraud
• The costs of accommodation
• Worth repeating
• The ghost of Ambrose Bierce
  by Thomas Slattery
• Letter head: more focus on risk management has created more demand for professional education. With the recent release of the newest risk-related credential, we take a look at designations as old as you are and those that haven't been created yet
  by Erin Fogg
• Quote of the month
• Hub's new hub
• Testing the immunity defense: a federal judge allows plaintiffs to go forward with their case against the city and contractors on the grounds of negligence
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Technology
• Forecast fix
• Shand bands
• The cleanup failure
• Next big Katrina decision: the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules on New Orleans flooding
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Yes, you, insurance, on the tube
  by Roger Crombie
• Industry risk report healthcare
  by Dan Reynolds
• Kiln considers move
• Reinforcing quake lessons: earthquake expert reports on aftermath of Japan temblor
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Allied helps Higginbotham
• Hard labor: day laborers worked hard to return Lower Manhattan to normalcy in the days following Sept, 11. Many of them were exposed to as much danger as the rescue crews crawling atop "the Pile."
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Fighting for your healthcare funds: third-party administrators and other members of the self-insured benefits industry claim they are in a war for their very existence. Their enemy—the dreaded BUCAS and the government. Their hope of survival—you
  by Matthew Brodsky
• New insurer in Hartford
• ADA answers
• Don't mess with Wortham: Texas-based brokerage gets fourth chairman in 91 years
  by Gregory D.L. Morris
• Perception and meltdowns
  by Beaumont Vance
• Squabbling over the ADA: fifteen years after the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the courts and employers are still at odds over how the law should be applied in the workplace. Thus far, the only certainty is that there are no hard-
  by Mindy W. Toran
• Speaking with two mouths
  by Cyril Tuohy
• The back story
• Hard work never killed anybody: unless your office happens to be a coal mine or an airplane
  by Erin Fogg
• Let it begin: the 2008 Power Broker Awards
• Bolting from risk, then running with it: an asthmatic New York City high-school student flees the collapsing World Trade Center towers, and then fights for insurance coverage before her illness is classified as a pre-existing condition
  by Steve Yahn
• Upcoming events
• Aviva heads to Iowa
• To err is human
• Brown & Brown beefs up
• New court, new direction
  by Philip G. Kircher
• Airborne liability: the Airbus A380 is coming to an airport near you, with increased liability limits on its wings
  by Dan Reynolds
• Lloyd's gets charitable
• Med-mal: continuing crisis?
• Bollinger buys agency
• Wrestling with a billion-dollar Gordian knot: risk managers and brokers fight hard to untangle the complex web of insurance programs covering Halliburton Co. and its KBR subsidiary
  by Gregory D.L. Morris
• Striking a balance: while the Tellabs decision finds middle ground between investors and corporate executives, it is expected to have little impact on D&O coverage
  by Anthony Galban