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Articles in Nov, 2005 issue of Risk & Insurance

• American Wholesale Insurance Group
• Valley Oak Systems
• Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company
• Patni Computer Systems Ltd
• Planning for what lies ahead: life-care plans, once an afterthought, are now being used early on to help injured employees, employers and insurers prepare for the road ahead and to minimize unexpected problems and costs
  by Patricia McCollom
• Squeezing the grid: the increase in the demand for electricity has strained the utility industry's ability to deliver power as reliably as it once did. Risk executives have several options at their disposal, none of which is a panacea
  by John Williams
• Fiserv® Insurance Solutions
• MasterCard International
• Policy solutions
• Europe's Risk managers could let loose a little: some in Europe may see the way Americans run their business as "myopic" and "risky," but there may be something in the way American companies embrace risk that risk managers on the Conti
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Four stellar acts to follow
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Setting the standard: with the passage of sweeping new workers' comp reform legislation, things have finally begun to turn around for the embattled California workers' comp system. Now is the time for California employers to take the reform to the next le
  by Scott R. Green
• ESIS
• MountainView Software
• McNeary Inc
• Aviva Life Insurance Co
• Disability
• Subpoenas issued
• Worth Repeating
• Playground of the wind-breakers: the engineers at FM Global believe that most wind damage from future Katrinas can be prevented. If you don't believe them, let them destroy a couple roofs for you at their research campus
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Eye drive: driving with care slashes accident rates, claim rates and per-vehicle accident costs, according to a user of DriverCare fleet management software. Mario Andrettis need not apply
  by Susan Gurevitz
• MFX
• David Morse & Associates
• Credit Risk scoring
• Health Care
• Outsmarting the cycle
  by Jack Roberts
• FERMA looks beyond Europe: Europe's risk management federation is steadily expanding its frontiers beyond the Continent's borders
  by Graham Buck
• Banking on long-term solutions: from modified duties to permanent assignment, so-called "task banks" help companies place ill, injured and aging workers. Some companies, however, are now applying the concept to help them reassign their aging wor
  by Robert Hall
• In New York State, we trust: some self-insured workers' comp trusts, hobbled by mismanagement and a tougher investment environment, have taken a beating. Kentucky and Illinois come to mind. But New York State, where the funds are heavily regulated, stands
  by Robert R. Snashall
• Aetna
• Sedgwick Claims Management Services
• William Gallagher Associates
• XL London Market Ltd
• Upcoming events
• Championing the cause: after taking a painful hit from unchecked comp costs, Catholic Healthcare West made a commitment to doing things in a new way. Now workers' comp isn't just another department to be managed, it's a core part of how the organization i
  by Michelle Kerr
• Wading through the paper bog: when it comes to managing workers' compensation claims, timeliness is crucial. New technology is helping to reduce time spent on claims, drive down costs and improve outcomes
  by Mindy W. Toran
• InsureWorx™
• Interface solutions
• MMC clients opt in
• Katrina by the numbers
• Zurich
• Professional liability
• Frank Gates Companies, Inc
• Process management
• Dial up disability management strategies: DMEC and Liberty Mutual led a call-center leadership seminar series that resulted in six tactics to manage high-absence costs
  by Peter Mead
• Fomenting a revolution: building upon their previous propositions for revamping the workers' compensation model, two consultants tackle the challenges of implementing return-to-work programs and urge employers to commit to the practice of returning injure
  by Maddy Bowling
• Yearnings of the vanguard: risk management techniques, underdeveloped in Japan, force curious managers to study in the United States. But Japan's extended economic slump is forcing changes in the way corporations approach risk management
  by Paula L. Green
• ATS
• Specialty Risk Services
• Guy Carpenter & Co. Inc
• Aon
• EPLI
• Sector downgraded
• A more dangerous place
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• The copyright stuff turns another page: the Internet and digital technology are the biggest revolution in publishing since Gutenberg ruined the monks' monopoly on book production, and once again printers and publishers are in danger of having their entire
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• MES Solutions
• Health-care analytics
• In the Oct. 1, 2005 Risk Report, the director of the environmental practice at Aon was misidentified
• The taming of the health-care giant: crafting a cohesive workers' comp program to cover 300 operating units and nearly 200,000 employees has been a daunting task, to say the least. Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corp. of America has done just that by sta
  by John McDonald
• Outsmarting the fraudster: a proponent of predictive analytics writes that this technology is changing the battle against workers' compensation fraud and abuse
  by Kevin Lisle
• Cambridge Integrated Services Group, Inc
• File Handler
• Standard & Poor
• Hunton & Williams
• Tax codes
• Broadspire
• StrataCare
• The PMI Group, Inc
• International coverage
• Olympic games carrier
• Cannabis and captives, man
  by Roger Crombie
• Industry risk report printing/publishing
• AIG Companies
• MCMC
• The National Alliance
• Integro Ltd
• Performance analytics
• Identity Theft
• Study casts doubt
• A system in a state of shock
  by Len Strazewski

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